I’m glad to help announce RailsBridge, a great idea put forth by Mike Gunderloy. Mike invited me (and many others) last week to join his concept for a positive approach inside the Rails community, and so far things look promising.

I hope to help out by donating time and energy toward any public workshops the group may choose to host, as well do any writing and mentoring that may be needed. The group will do many other things, but for now those are the two that I feel most qualified to do (see here and here if you’re a new reader and don’t know what I’m talking about).

I wasn’t able to make it to RailsConf, but some other RailsBridge members are there, so find them, learn more about it, and join us if you’re so inclined.

A couple weeks ago I was pretty depressed about the state of the Rails community. But now, I’m more optimistic that ever.

Thanks, Mike.