On 17 abr, 02:43, James Britt <james.br... / gmail.com> wrote:
> Gregg Pollack wrote:
> > Hey guys,
>
> >     This morning we put up the Ruby Hero Awards (http://
> >www.RubyHeroes.com).  There are many people in the Ruby/Rails world
> > who contribute to our community and rarely receive any recognition or
> > payment for their work.  They write educational blogs & tutorials,
> > create plugins & gems, contribute to open source projects, and put on
> > events, and help out people who need assistance on groups like this.
>
> Who are those people on the panel?
>
> http://www.rubyheroes.com/panel
>
> I have to say I recognize maybe only half the names, and I think I've
> been pretty attentive to the Ruby world (though not the Rails section).
>

Let see what Google answers ("ruby ?" % ['put name here'])

Adam Keys : http://therealadam.com/
Personal blog/tumblr, no tutorials or deep look into Ruby

Anthony Eden : http://www.anthonyeden.com/
Personal blog, few technicall stuff from Rails and Ruby, nothing deep
to take a good look at.

Brandon Beacher : http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/7942-brandon-beacher
Personal blog is out of date (9 months), Is the guy who coded the
RubyHeroes site...

Bruce Williams : http://codefluency.com/
Rails fame, Validatable all fame, father of the validations in
projects like DataMapper and Sequel (but not the implementer) --
anyway, they split from the path long ago.

Chad Fowler : http://chadfowler.com/
no need to comment, right? Rails Recipes, RubyGems incubator...

Chu Yeow : http://blog.codefront.net/
Living on the edge (of Rails), enough said.

Dave Thomas : http://pragdave.pragprog.com/
Programming Ruby author.

David Black (David A. Black?) : http://dablog.rubypal.com/
Ruby for Rails author

Evan Phoenix : http://rubini.us
Rubinius father

Gregg Pollack : http://www.railsenvy.com
RailsEnvy dude... well, rails dude.

Jason Seifer : http://www.railsenvy.com
The other RailsEnvy dude :-)

Josh Owens : http://josh.the-owens.com/
Personal blog, rails related posts

Laurent Sansonetti : http://chopine.be/lrz/
Resume page, MacRuby / Ruby/Cocoa guy?

Mike Clark : http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom
Mostly Rails, part of the Rails Studio and Advanced Rails Studio of
Pragmatic Programmers training

Peter Cooper : http://www.rubyinside.com/
RubyInside, RubyFlow, SwitchPipe.

Robert Dempsey : http://www.railsforall.org/
Rails for All

Steven Bristol : http://lesseverything.com
Rails Developer

Thomas Meeks : http://www.fullofmuchwinandawesome.com/
Single post, google couldn't locate lot of resources besides Orlando
Ruby Group (ORUG). Based on InfoQ comment, looks like he is using
Rails with netbeans

Tyler Hunt : http://blog.tylerhunt.com/
Coding blog, Ruby, Rspec, capistrano, javascript post...

> Are these people active on ruby-talk?

Haven't seen anyone.

> There are no bios, no links to any background info.

Hope what I provided above helps

> And why announce the results at a Rails conf?  Why not at a general Ruby
> conference?

Take your own conclusions based on the details I posted before.

PS: If I had a huge ego, can I nominate myself? it will be considered
as valid nomination? :-D

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena