From: Raphael Bauduin <raphael.bauduin@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T18:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: FOSDEM call for presence: any rubyists interested?

Richard Dale wrote:
> 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?

O'Reilly is our main sponsor, and I thought they distributed the book in Europe (is that correct?).
I'll check with them if it's possible to have it at FOSDEM.

> 
> 
>>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. 
> 

Thanks ;-)

Raph