[LRUG] DHH, Rails, and London

[Sam Phillips]

Thank you for organising this James - PR in to sign.

I'm proud to see so many long-standing LRUG and Ruby community members
publicly support this - it would be easier not to.

Sam

On Fri, 26 Sept 2025 at 03:21, Najaf Ali via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
wrote:

> These conversations have already been happening in Ruby spaces, but I
> suspect you wouldn't notice them if they weren't directed at you or your
> friends.
>
> We had stangate back in the day on this very list, great fun! I also seem
> to remember a conference organiser telling me how lucky a POC speaker was
> to be chosen despite their race. Once I had a lead for Happy Bear that said
> "I don't think I would be OK with working with a black developer" or
> something to that effect. Other people's "political views" do actually
> matter if they're directly insulting you or have economic consequences.
>
> There are many, many more examples of this, but I got tired of writing
> them down. For a non-white person, these are pedestrian, every-day
> happenings in the Ruby community.
>
> Looking back, all of this behaviour seems juvenile and provincial. It's
> lovely to be in an environment with a lot less of it.
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