Andrew Nesbitt

Andrew, a software engineer based in UK, channels his efforts into Ruby programming, open source collaboration, and fostering local developer communities. He's deeply engaged with Ecosyste.ms, his current project, which prioritizes sustainability and discovery within open source. By scrutinizing open datasets and APIs, Ecosyste.ms identifies pivotal software systems within OSS ecosystems, facilitating dependency mapping to highlight critical open-source projects in need of support.

Projects

Ecosyste.ms

Tools and open datasets to support OSS.

Octobox

Take back control of your GitHub notifications.

24 Pull Requests

Giving back to open source for the holidays.

Manifest Podcast

A podcast all about package management.

Split

The Rack Based AB testing framework

Libraries.io

The Open source Discovery Service.

86 Days

Toyota GT86 Track Day Car Rental

Trackday.social

Discover upcoming track day events at the UK's premier racing circuits.

ARG Performance

GT86 and BRZ mods, maintenance and servicing.

First Pull Request

What was your first pull request?

node-sass

Node.js bindings to libsass

Homebrew Bundle

Bundler for non-ruby dependencies from homebrew

Podcast Interviews

Ecosyste.ms with Andrew Nesbitt

Open Source Security: Ecosyste.ms catalogs open source projects by tracking packages, dependencies, repositories, and more
Ben Nickolls & Andrew Nesbitt on Ecosyste.ms

Sustain Episode 270: Exploring ecosyste.ms, a project using open source metadata to guide funding and support key projects
Package Metadata Working Group with Andrew Nesbitt and Damián Vicino

CHAOSScast Episode 121: Discussing the formation and objectives of the Package Metadata Working Group within the CHAOSS community
Trends from UN OSS Week and OSSNA

CHAOSScast Episode 115: Reflections on UN Open Source Week in New York and CHAOSScon North America
Dawn Foster & Andrew Nesbitt at State of Open Con 2023

Sustain Episode 159: Andrew talks about his history with 24 Pull Requests, Libraries.io, and Ecosyste.ms
Untangle your GitHub notifications with Octobox

Changelog Interviews #327: How Octobox came to be and why open source maintainers love it
24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io

Changelog Interviews #188: A special doubleheader holiday show discussing 24 Pull Requests and Libraries.io
Measuring Success in Open Source

Request For Commits #3: Open source metrics and how to interpret data around dependencies and usage
Episode 22: Andrew Nesbitt

Bet On Yourself: Creator of Libraries.io, Dependency CI and 24 Pull Requests on solving discoverability and sustainability in open source
24 Pull Requests

CodeNewbie: How code newbies can get started in making open source contributions and overcome the intimidation of making your first pull request

Events

Bath Ruby Conference 2016

The biggest Ruby confernce in the UK
Bath Ruby Conference 2015

The biggest Ruby confernce in the UK
Bath Ruby User Group

Informal monthly meetups for Rubyists in and around Bath
The Great British Node Conference

A single day, community focused, Node.js conference in London
LNUG

The London Node.js User Group
Nodecopter

Bringing flying robot hackdays to the UK
RailsGirls

Helping teach women programming and rails around the UK

Presentations

Can my friends come too?

Presented at Brighton Ruby in 2017
Elasticsearch on Rails

Presented at South-West Elastic Community Meetup in 2015
Robotics 101

Presented at Hackference in 2014
Learning how to Tinker

Presented at HybridConf in 2014
The Rise of JavaScript Hardware Hacking

Presented at jQuery UK in 2014
JavaScript in the Real World

Presented at Full Frontal in 2013
The Future of Nodecopter

Presented at LXJS in 2013
Turbo Charging your workflow with Node.js

Presented at Webshaped in 2013
The Meetup Organisers Field Guide

Presented at Bristol IT Mega Meet in 2013
Node.js + Quadcopters, what could go wrong?

Presented at Cheltenham Geek Nights in 2013
An introduction to RubyMotion

Presented at the London, Bristol and Cardiff Ruby User Groups about Rubymotion in 2013
Integrating Node.js into an existing stack

Presented at the Italian Node.js Conference in 2012
Event Machine vs Node.js

Presented at Ruby Manor in 2011
A/B Testing everything with Split

Presented at Arrrrcamp in 2011

Videos

Can my friends come too?

Presented at Brighton Ruby in 2017
The Rise of JavaScript Hardware Hacking

Presented at jQuery UK in 2014
JavaScript in the Real World

Recorded at Full Frontal in 2013
The Future of Nodecopter

Recorded at LXJS in 2013
Nodecopter

Recorded at Over the Air in 2013
Turbo Charging your workflow with Node.js

Recorded at Webshaped in 2013
An introduction to Rubymotion: Writing iOS apps with Ruby

Recorded at London Ruby User Group in 2012
Integrating Node.js into your existing technology stack.

Recorded at London Node User Group in 2012
Using Node.js and Ruby on Rails for uber productivity

Recorded at London Node User Group in 2012
Form Analytics With inForm

Recorded at HN London in 2011
Event Machine vs Node.js

Recorded at Ruby Manor in 2011
A/B Testing everything with Split

Recorded at Arrrrcamp in 2011

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