[LRUG] DHH, Rails, and London

[Yevhenii Kurtov]

James,

Thinking about what's going on further, I won't be surprised if we are
dealing with a pure business move here.
37Signals has to sell Basecamp, and people who resonate with the marketing
signals we observe here are a lucrative market.
And stung feelings are a mere amplification mechanism that allows them to
go even further.

Genius.

Best,
Yevhenii

On Fri, 26 Sept 2025 at 09:46, James Smith via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
wrote:

> Lol, definitely easier not to, my notifications would be a lot quieter.
>
> I really appreciate all the eloquent messages of support here, thank you
> all. It’s helping me remember I’m on the right side and happy with my
> accidental choice to bring a torrent of abuse upon myself. :)
>
> cheers,
> James
>
> On 26 Sep 2025, at 09:37, Sam Phillips via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
> wrote:
>
> 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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