I've been invited to give a 5-10 minute talk about what it's like being a Ruby dev in Oz. It'll be at a pre-RubyKaigi meetup in Tokyo, which will have a fair number of Japanese and non-Japanese people.
As far as I can tell, most of the capital cities have Ruby meetups, and possibly meetups on JavaScript, functional programming or iOS programming. And Sydney also has hack nights. I'll also talk about Railscamps, and RubyConf Australia. I'm also asked about work in Australia. Is Ruby-based work mainly based in small startups and/or freelancing, with more mainstream languages required for larger corporations? What is the work environment like? What kind of hours are expected? What is the pay like compared to the cost of living in Australia? I've heard a few grumbles about what it's like working in a large corporate, but is that more about what tools and processes are used, rather than how they treat you? Oh, and I suspect there's a few grumbles about getting permission to work in Australia. But is that more of a PITA rather than a show-stopper? Thanks, Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
