From: Charles O Nutter Date: 2006-07-28T13:29:39+09:00 Subject: Re: About last night ... ------=_Part_42230_28253059.1154060977293 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > a. The upcoming Ruby Conference in Colorado had 73 proposals for papers > submitted, of which only 16 could fit into the schedule, > b. There are only 240 slots for *attendees* to the conference, while > there are most likely thousands with the means and desire to attend, and > c. Given b, people are actually running scripts to poll the conference > web site and grab the registration form, in the hopes that they'll be > one of the lucky 240. > I for one have been very disappointed with the limtations put on RubyConf this year. - Only ten days were given to submit proposals - Only 16 proposals were selected, no more than the previous year (or at least not much more) - Only 240 people will get to attend, a measly 20% increase in space over last year when last year's attendance more than doubled over 2004 I have friends and friends of friends polling for me. The limitation to such low numbers seems to be entirely counter-productive. That said, I would be very happy to see other conferences come around to pick up the slack, and if it looked like RubyConf was going to be a no-go I'd consider attending something else. -- Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com JRuby Developer @ www.jruby.org Application Architect @ www.ventera.com ------=_Part_42230_28253059.1154060977293--