[Ruby] About last night ...

[pat eyler]

On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb at cesmail.net> wrote:
> Now that I have your attention :) ... last night was FOSCON II -- Ruby
> Rodeo. I was there, though not at OSCON. It was nice to meet folks like
> Jim Weirich, David A. Black, Phil Tomson, Amy Hoy, and nearly all of our
> neighbors from the "Zen Ruby" brigade up in Seattle. If I had known
> there was going to be code sharing, I suppose I would have brought a
> laptop and a wireless card.

Wow, I'm not sure how I missed you.   Bummer.


> Certainly the regional conferences will help ... I think between Seattle
> and Portland we have enough talent to put one on -- how about Centralia?

How about a Ruby track at the Linux Northwest Fest in Bellingham WA next
April (2007).  I was actually spending a good part of last the last
couple of days
(including last night at FOSCon) trying to line up support.  I think we're in
good shape to pull it off.

I've got a tentative agreement from the LNW Fest folks to let us run a full
track (4 talks).  They're going to start organizing in December, and I'd like to
put out a call for papers in November, with a New Year's Eve deadline (PST).
I think we could get the talks selected in January, and leave the presenters
February and March to write their talks.

> :) But the wider issue is, "Is there more demand for Ruby resources than
> there is supply?" That's especially a concern when there seems to be an
> *endless* supply of Java and Perl and PHP resources, and maybe even
> Python and Javascript.
>
> Anyhow, what do other people here think?

I've seen some of the talks that just didn't fit at RubyConf ... I think there's
a lot of supply out there.  Certainly, there's a lot of untapped potential as
well.

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thanks,
-pate
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