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RubyConf 2005 is over, and I’m hanging out in Berkeley at my friend Seng’s house as I write this. It’s funny: A few months back, when I heard that RubyConf was going to be three times bigger this year, I was mostly excited but a little uneasy. As communities grow, they can change, and not always for the better. But now that it’s over, I can’t think of a single way in which the growth has been bad. Instead, RubyConf this year has given me three times as many mind-blowing conversations, and three times as many smart, chill people to hang out with. Does Ruby scale? Well, so far its community does. …