OSS Expo Agenda 2024

Maintainers of eight projects will be there not just to demo their work, but to collaborate with everyone and dive deeper into the problems that their tools solve.

It is an open format! You can approach participants with any questions you have and start a gripping AMA session. Or open your laptop if some hacking is happening. So just be engaged at the expo!

You can find some useful facts below to prepare yourself for the campfire activities.

A campfire is a place where people can come together to have warm talks, share ideas, and collaborate with each other. We want the same.

Welcome to the BalticRuby OSS expo campfires.

6. And of course, have some fun!

5. Don't stay aside at the expo! Your engagement is key!

4. Prepare yourself for the sessions with Campfire starters.

3. Dive deeper into the tools presented at the expo.

2. Do some homework about https://howtoopensource.dev/

1. Check out participants' profiles.

Here are some tips for you.

OSS EXPO

AGENDA

A man (Kasper Tim Hansen) in a brown t-shirt and carrying a backpack looking to the left.

PROJECT

ACTIVERECORD:: ASSOCIATEDOBJECT

ActiveRecord::AssociatedObject helps you notice & extract collaborator object POROs from your Active Records to bring more structure to your app's domain model.

Key benefits of Ruby for development?

Latest trends in Ruby programming?

How Ruby supports rapid prototyping?

Kasper Timm Hansen

EBELTOFT, DENMARK

KASPTH

Former Rails core team member now helping Rails teams with Domain Modeling consulting.

what  to ask about?

PROJECT

OAKEN

Oaken structures your development seeds and lets you reuse them in tests. We also combine fixtures' stability and storytelling with factories' helpers to drastically reduce your cognitive load.
 

A man wearing glasses kindly smiling (Sam Giddins).

Campfire starter

"I'm the RubyGems security lead - let's set up automated releases for all the gems today!"

Samuel Giddins

Oakland, California, USA

Ruby Central

Samuel is the Security Engineer in Residence at Ruby Central, leading security efforts across RubyGems and RubyGems.org by day (and sometimes by night, CVEs never sleep). He's been working on Ruby tooling for the past decade, and has shipped hundreds of bugs across RubyGems & Bundler

Security Engineer

A man wearing a brown sweater smiles warmly (Nicolai Bach Woller).

Campfire starter

"A drop in command palette built with Hotwire and Meilisearch. Users can search data and perform other actions like logging out."

Nicolai Bach Woller

Ebeltoft, Denmark

traels.it

PROJECT

Senior Full Stack Developer

A man with a beard and a moustache smiles warmly (Mohamed Hassan).

A Rubyist since 2005 and a SQLitist since 2003.
An ex-Googler and an ex-entrepreneur.

Campfire starter

"I am a Litestack maintainer. Ask me anything about how SQLite can work for Ruby."

"Litestack harnesses the power of SQLite to provide Ruby apps with zero admin, high performance, a full stack of database, cache, job queue, cable, full text search and metrics."

PROJECT

Originally from Alexandria, Egypt.
Currently in Munich, Germany

Mohamed Hassan

Independent consultant

Max Grønlund

A man in a black sweatshirt (Max Grønlund)..

Campfire starter

"The LoggableActivity gem is designed to protect and secure the privacy of data stored in the Activity Log. When a user requests deletion of their account, the LoggableActivity gem will remove sensitive data protected by GDPR from the Activity Log.

Supervisors and administrators can monitor and track how data is used and manipulated. Every time data in the database is at play, the LoggableActivity gem can record it, making it possible to track who did what and when."

PROJECT

LoggableActivity

Denmark, Aarhus

Senior Developer Ruby on Rails | Elixir, Phoenix

traels.it

A man with a beard and moustache smiles (Marco Roth).

Campfire starter

"Feel free to join me to at the HTML-over-the-wire Campfire to talk about all things Hotwire. No matter if you want some guidance on how to best implement a new feature in your app, which libraries and tools to use, how to setup developer tools (like Stimulus LSP and Turbo LSP) in your editor or getting started to contribute to any of the open source Hotwire projects and libraries (like Turbo, Stimulus, Hotwire.io, Turbo Power, Stimulus Use, Stimulus LSP, Turbo LSP, StimulusReflex or CableReady). Please bring your thoughts and ideas to the campfire, I'd love to discuss them with you!"

PROJECT

HTML-over-the-wire

Basel, Switzerland

Independent Consultant & Open Source Contributor

Kim Burgestrand

A man in a gray hoodie widely smiles (Kim Burgestrand).

Campfire starter

"Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes."

PROJECT

Stockholm, Sweden

Partner, co-founder, and developer

Varvet

Kasper Timm Hansen

A man with a beard and moustache looks aside with interest (Kasper Timm Hansen).

Campfire starter

"ActiveRecord::AssociatedObject helps you notice & extract collaborator object POROs from your Active Records to bring more structure to your app's domain model."

"Oaken structures your development seeds and lets you reuse them in tests. We also combine fixtures' stability and storytelling with factories' helpers to drastically reduce your cognitive load."

PROJECTS

ActiveRecord::AssociatedObject

Copenhagen, Denmark

Former Rails core team member now helping Rails teams with Domain Modeling consulting

kaspth

Hans Lemuet

A man with a beard and moustache looks over his shoulder (Hans Lemuet).

Campfire starter

"Let's talk about UI components in Ruby: how to write them using ViewComponent, how to use them in forms with ViewComponent::Form, and how to leverage Lookbook as your development environment!"

PROJECTS

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Web Developer at Etamin Studio, co-maintainer of ViewComponent and Lookbook, gravel bike rider

ViewComponent::Form

David Backeus

A man (David Backeus) in a white sweater is smiling widely.

Campfire starter

"Encouraging developers and organisations to consider self-hosting their applications and joining the Reclaim the Stack community to share experiences."

PROJECTS

Reclaim the Stack

Sweden, Stockholm

Devops Lead
Making websites since 1995
Working full stack with Rails since 2007
Devops Lead at Mynewsdesk since 2017