FutureRuby

July 9-12, 2009, Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto, Canada

People who program in Ruby aren’t like other coders

We are the artists, philosophers, and troublemakers. We realize that the fringe of today is the mainstream of tomorrow. We grease the engines of progress, even when we're working outside of the machine.

FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

The reds have something up their sleeve.

May 13th, 2009

We’ve got another exciting event TBA in a mere day or so. In the meantime, we couldn’t resist feeding the fire with a few exciting developments on the sidelines:

Here’s another daily dose of speakers we’ve proudly snagged for the podium:

Nathaniel Talbott

Foy Savas

Misha Glouberman

Ron and Damen Evans

You’ll be able to start taking in speakers bio’s and sneak previews of talks next Monday. Where, you say? We’re proudly putting the finishing touches on our official website, so prepare for the blanks to be filled at the start of the next workweek.

Finally, last year we had far too much fun with the HackFest we co-presented with EngineYard last year for RubyFringe, and decided to create a redux event with added flare. The newest edition to the Augusta Bloc Party is HotShot Gallery, where we’ll be curating installations and multimedia exhbiits in the front, and a serious hackers cove in the back – the reverse mullet of parties, if you will. We’ll be running an espresso bar in the venue to keep you wired, catering to the whims of your munchies, and the lovely staff at HotShot will be running the usual bar rail goodies.

Keep in mind that there’s a Russian Navy-themed night with performers, DJ’s and drinks going on across the street at The Boat in glorious synchronicity. We seriously can’t emphasize booking your flight out on Monday the 13th enough.

And the Comrade/Companion track is running out of tickets. Run, run.

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