FOSCON III: Really Radical Ruby
July 19th, 2007 by
audrey
The Portland Ruby Brigade is hosting our third annual evening of Ruby fun, next week during OSCON. FOSCON III will be held Tuesday, July 24th, at Holocene in SE Portland. I’ve helped plan this the last two years, and it’s a really great opportunity to learn more about Ruby and meet interesting people who work with it. There’s also still time to sign up for a lightning talk, if you have something you’d like to show off. Here’s the official announcement:
Once again the Portland Ruby Brigade will be hosting an evening of wide ranging talks about Ruby. This year the focus is on people doing strange things with Ruby. Strange, of course, is anything just a bit outside the expected. If you’ve created a new Ruby-based interface for hacking your brand new internet-enabled phone (rPhone anyone?) or composed your latest bit of metaprogramming magic, we’d love to hear about it.
Rather than having a fixed list of presenters, we’re keeping it open-ended and free form. We’ll use the lightning talk idea and give you each a 10 minute (give or take a few) slot to tell us what you can cram in. Make it especially interesting and we might even give you an extra minute or two. Let us know (send email to tlockney+foscon@gmail.com) in advance if you are interested in presenting or show up early on the 24th to sign up for a possible slot.
This will all be taking place on Tuesday, July 24th, 7:30PM at Holocene here in Portland, Oregon. This just happens to be the same week as O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention and the final day of Ubuntu Live. So if you’re in town for either of those or close enough to come join us anyway, you’re more then welcome.
There will be plenty of Ruby fun going on and lots of socializing with other people interested in Ruby. Last year, FOSCON II was overflowing. We’ve found a new venue to fit you all in, so why would you miss it?
July 19th, 2007 at 11:38 am
We haven’t had any submissions for talks by women, yet, so I would encourage anyone here to sign up. It’s only a 10 minute slot you have to fill, so even if you just want to show off some cool Ruby tricks, that would be great. For that matter, you could even talk about being a women in a community dominated by men. Or about building communities targeted to specific social groups — I’d personally love to hear a talk about that. There are so many possibilities…