Open-sourcing my Rails 5 real-estate website builder: lessons learned

Innovation Campus is happy to host this meeting orgaized by Malaga.rb group (https://www.meetup.com/malaga-rb/)

DESCRIPTION

After just over a year, we’re glad to announce our upcoming meetup.

Thanks to some international rubyists newly arrived in Málaga, we have arranged an interesting evening for y’all.

### Talk by Ed Tee
– “Lessons learned from open sourcing my Rails 5 real-estate website builder”

WordPress has become the dominant tool for creating real-estate websites. This is far from ideal for RoR developers looking to find a more complete, maintainable solution for such projects.

PropertyWebBuilder was created to address a glaring gap in the Rails ecosystem: the lack of an open source project for this kind of websites. This talk will focus both in the technical aspect and some “soft skills”: managing contributions, new features, backers, sponsors, licenses…

More info here: https://etewiah.github.io/property_web_builder/
Check the sources at: https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

– Level: Aimed at beginners to Ruby On Rails, or different aspects of the software development process, it’d be interesting for us to hear.

– About the speaker:
– Ed Tee @africajam
– Javascript and Ruby on Rails dev
– Founder of PropertyWebBuilder – @prptywebbuilder

### Talk 2
Mike Sutton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikesutton/) from DeckSender (https://decksender.com/) will talk on: “Building stuff when you care more about the what than the how (and you be been a developer for 25 years)”

### Looking for rubyists?
If you have a project in need of Ruby talent, please tell the audience. Startups and non-startups welcome!

### Code Of Conduct.
Everyone should feel at ease. Please by friendly, polite & inclusive.

### Networking & refreshments