# Trying to determine presentation author

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 31, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-determine-presentation-author/62126 "2006-05-31T19:34:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-determine-presentation-author/62126/1 "2006-05-31T19:34:22Z")

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There’s a presentation on [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org), in the Why Ruby? section, simply  
titled, “Ruby Language Talk”

The description says, “A presentation to an R&D group of engineers about  
Ruby. Contains several formats: PPT, PNGs, RTF, MHT and plain text.”

And the there is a link to a ~2MB zip file with all those formats.

However, what isn’t included (as best I can tell) is any attribution; I  
cannot figure out who wrote this presentation.

Does anyone know who the author is?

Thanks!

–  
James B.

“Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.”

- Voltaire

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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-determine-presentation-author/62126/2 "2006-06-08T08:24:02Z")

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On 6/1/06, James B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Does anyone know who the author is?

That would be me. It’s a presentation I gave to Avaya Labs (Australia)  
R&D group around mid 2004. It’s based on various slides stolen from  
other places, most notably Matz’s various talks. I originally uploaded  
it to the WhyRuby project (I think it was on RubyForge - but the  
project seems to have been deleted?).

Anyway, use at will.

Cheers,  
Assaph

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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-determine-presentation-author/62126/3 "2006-06-08T15:56:12Z")

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Assaph M. wrote:

> > However, what isn’t included (as best I can tell) is any attribution; I  
> > cannot figure out who wrote this presentation.
> > 
> > Does anyone know who the author is?
> 
> That would be me. It’s a presentation I gave to Avaya Labs (Australia)  
> R&D group around mid 2004. It’s based on various slides stolen from  
> other places, most notably Matz’s various talks. I originally uploaded  
> it to the WhyRuby project (I think it was on RubyForge - but the  
> project seems to have been deleted?).

Thank you!

(BTW, all the Why Ruby? material was moved to [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org) sometime last  
year: [http://www.ruby-doc.org/whyruby](http://www.ruby-doc.org/whyruby))

–  
James B.

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