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.

In the name of love, unity and Moskovskaya.

May 27th, 2009

Today’s updates are an assortment of blithe bits and bites:

Articulating.
We’re happy to announce that Adam Blum (of Rhodes fame) is one of the newest inductions to the FutureRuby speakers line-up. Go say привет! (That’s ‘hi!’ since people have been asking about our Cyrillic mystique.)

Repeating.
FAILcamp plans are starting to ferment real nice, and we’re excited to amalgamate the Great Hall of Rubyists with some of Toronto’s finest for one lemony night.

Those planning on arriving early for FutureRuby should sign up swiftly to ensure their place at the yacht club. Toronto denizens not attending FutureRuby may have already had their first FAIL in procuring one of those elusive free tickets, but a few Supporter Tickets (aka PWYC) still remain.

Alternatively, while FutureRuby volunteer slots have been off the market for awhile, we’d love an extra few pairs of helping hands for FAILcamp. Send offers of support to meghann@unspace.ca and you’ll be well taken care of.

Applauding.
Aside from the usual suspects, there’s been a lot of people working hard behind the scenes since the inception of FutureRuby. While there are too many helpful comrades to name (you know who you are) we have to publicly extol our illustrators and designers Stefan Grambart and Unspace’s own Wesley Hodgson for all the thought and benevolent O/T they’ve put into creating Rubyist propaganda.

Make sure to give them thanks when you receive your killer swag.


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