Rubyconf shirts options evidence of a couple of problems

Posted by Diego on Nov 6th, 2008 in main | 3 comments

I guess the assumption made from the ruby-central guys is that there are many, many, many really overweight programmers in our community. While our profession does port itself to long ours, unhealthy habits and poor diets I am happy to see that not many people picked from that stack. I can’t help but wonder what could be done to help that stats. As a matter of fact I have to say that most ruby developer at the conference are slim to slightly overweight. That’s a net contrast from other developer communities. Maybe that is a result of getting more things done in less time . Who knows?

This is evidence of an assumption on the health of programmers in general

The other problem that I can deduct from the choice in swags is that there is an enourmous disparity in the males to females ratio in the ruby community. We should do something about attracting more women to the joy of ruby.

Only one stack of shirts for women available at rubyconf 2008.

http://www.xaop.com RubyStijn

Hi Diego,

I noticed another health problem at Rubyconf :
SHORT TERM memory problems of Rubyists in the hotel bar.

You could recognize these Rubyists by :

1. Playing too much foosball.
2. Drinking beer.
2. Screaming bammm.
3. Thinking and saying that they were unbeatable.
4. and last but not least playing foosball.
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I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I have no recollection of such things.
I don’t remember any of that for the exception of consistently winning when playing by myself against all odds.
And by all odds I am referring to 2 odd rubyist from Belgium.

LOL, how was your trip back?
http://www.xaop.com JavaStijn

It was fine, thanks.
Cu next time !