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Ruby DCamp

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  • Where: Holiday Inn, http://www.hiarlington.com, 4610 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203, 703-243-9800
  • When: October 10-12, 2008 (Friday evening is registration and socializing, optional)
  • What: An Open Space event for Rubyists from all over -- inverting the trend in the Ruby community of speaker-audience conferences
  • Who: YOU and ~150 other Rubyists! Brought to you by a few intrepid Rubyists and gracious sponsors

 

Description

Up until Ruby DCamp, Ruby conferences have followed the traditional speaker-audience model. However, the Ruby community is made up of a great number of early adopters: extremely bright, talented, and entrepreneurial individuals who are capable of being more than a passive audience. Therefore Ruby DCamp seeks to enable these individuals to enrich themselves and one another in the best way possible: by providing an Open Space event where they can decide what matters to them collectively and to act upon those interests.

 

Registration

Registration costs $100 until Monday October 6th, and $125 Tuesday, October 7th and later.

 

We need to notify the hotel of the number of attendees a few days before the conference. If we overestimate the number, we will pay the hotel for people who did not attend; if we underestimate, we may not have food for everyone. So as an incentive to register before that cutoff, we're increasing the registration price from $100 to $125 for any registrations made Tuesday, October 7th or later.

 

If you'd like to help defray the costs, please consider a bronze sponsorship registration at $250.

 

Please register online at http://rubydcamp.eventbrite.com/.

 

Static Website

http://rubydcamp.org

 

Possible Session Topics:

format (duration): title

 

  • Discussion (1h): The Future of DataMapper - Evan Light
  • Employment Speed Dating (1h) - for job seekers and companies seeking new hires
  • Will Code For Beer (30m/1h) - Chris Williams - A depth first search of the wonderous beverage (psst, thats beer) and why it makes for the perfect pair programming partner. This talk is less about coding and more about passion, process, and having a dream that is beyond this week's deadline.
  • Concurrent Oriented Programming (or how I learned to love the 'stache) (42m) - Chris Williams
  • Putting the Content, Management, and System in Content Management System with Radiant (38.74m) – Andrew O'Brien
  • Discussion: How do YOU like your tests: Wet, DRY, or Moist and would you like a twist of meta or code generation with that? (1h) - Evan Light
  • There's No Place Like ~: How to Kick Ass in the Bash Shell - (30m/1h) - Joe Grossberg
  • erector - (30m/1h) - Jim Kingdon
  • Limelight - Micah Martin
  • JavaScript and Ruby - the Perfect Pair of Good Parts- Ray Daly
  • Smart Caching With Memcached - Ian Warshak (30m)
  • Managing a Production Rails Environment with Puppet (45m) - Matthew Swain
  • Building Mobile Apps with Rhodes - Adam Blum (45m)
  • SUGGEST YOUR OWN HERE

 

Organizers:

 

Volunteers:

 

Sponsors:

See http://rubydcamp.org/sponsors.html

 

Committed attendees - limited to 150 to fit our venue:

  1. Matthew Podwysocki
  2. Colin MacDonald
  3. Jeremy McAnally
  4. Mike Subelsky
  5. Avdi Grimm (subject to family commitments)
  6. Evan Light (would be awfully silly if I wasn't there)
  7. Luc Castera
  8. Joe Grossberg
  9. Chris Selmer
  10. Adam Bair
  11. Andrew Turner (subject to actual date, traveling beginning of October)
  12. Rob Ares
  13. David James
  14. Doug Jenkins (subject to date)
  15. Matt Constantine (subject to date, traveling early October)
  16. Eric Pugh
  17. John Trupiano
  18. Michael Harrison
  19. Kris Steigerwald
  20. Michael Niv (subject to date)
  21. Ray Daly
  22. Sean Mountcastle (subject to date)
  23. Michael Buckbee (subject to date)
  24. Jeff Schoolcraft on twitter
  25. Paul Brian Coleman (subject to date)
  26. Holley St. Germain (subject to date)
  27. Scott Tuddenham
  28. Mark Johnson
  29. Ahson Wardak
  30. Chris Williams
  31. Andrew O'Brien
  32. Matthew Mansfield
  33. Lou Scoras
  34. Ashish Tonse
  35. Brian Marick (likely)
  36. Rick Hower
  37. Four Hewes On Twitter (subject to date)
  38. Keith Bennett
  39. Jim Kingdon
  40. Andrew Semprebon
  41. Paul Barry
  42. Brandon Zylstra (almost certainly)
  43. Micah Martin
  44. Andrea O. K. Wright
  45. Stephen Strom
  46. Matthew Swain
  47. Ian Warshak
  48. Will O'Donovan

 

Favorite Tools:

At the camp a few of us mentioned our favorite Ruby tools, so we thought we'd bump up their PageRank slightly:

  1. git bisect - Find the change that introduced a bug
  2. limelight - Rich client GUI tools
  3. HPricot - Fast, enjoyable HTML parser
  4. WWW::Mechanize - Stateful, automated interaction with web sites
  5. HBase - Distributed, column-oriented store
  6. JRuby - Java implementation of the Ruby language
  7. SMC - A state machine compiler