From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T18:39:52+09:00
Subject: Re: FOSDEM call for presence: any rubyists interested?

Raphael Bauduin wrote:

>> If I come would anyone be interested in a presentation about QtRuby and
>> Korundum? I agree it would be nice to have a specific meeting room for
>> rubyists.
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> If no other rubyists are interested, it will be hard to give a room for
> Ruby. However, KDE will certainly have a room and I'm sure a presentation
> about Korundum/QtRuby could fit in their program.
Yes, KDE and ruby go together beautifully - you don't see what an elegant
api it is, while it's hidden under all that C++ cruft :). Alex Kellett and
myself did a lot of Ruby evangelising at the KDE aKademy conference. We've
got Zack Rusin as a convert for instance, and he's busy writing a Korundum
app now.

> It would be cool to have a Ruby room though, and there are enough subject
> to organise a little program (QtRuby, Ruby on rails, Rake, WxRuby, well,
> see rubyforge for other possibilities ;-). It would be an opportunity to
> promote Ruby/Ruby projects to the open source developers comunity too.
How about getting somebody to sell copies of the new pickaxe book there - is
that possible?

> Dates of the event are 26 and 27th feb 2005.
I look forward to it - I've been been for the past three years now. Thanks
for doing such a good job organising the meeting.