From: pat eyler Date: 2006-07-28T14:30:56+09:00 Subject: Re: About last night ... On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Now that I have your attention :) ... last night was FOSCON II -- Ruby > Rodeo. I was there, though not at OSCON. It was nice to meet folks like > Jim Weirich, David A. Black, Phil Tomson, Amy Hoy, and nearly all of our > neighbors from the "Zen Ruby" brigade up in Seattle. If I had known > there was going to be code sharing, I suppose I would have brought a > laptop and a wireless card. Wow, I'm not sure how I missed you. Bummer. > Certainly the regional conferences will help ... I think between Seattle > and Portland we have enough talent to put one on -- how about Centralia? How about a Ruby track at the Linux Northwest Fest in Bellingham WA next April (2007). I was actually spending a good part of last the last couple of days (including last night at FOSCon) trying to line up support. I think we're in good shape to pull it off. I've got a tentative agreement from the LNW Fest folks to let us run a full track (4 talks). They're going to start organizing in December, and I'd like to put out a call for papers in November, with a New Year's Eve deadline (PST). I think we could get the talks selected in January, and leave the presenters February and March to write their talks. > :) But the wider issue is, "Is there more demand for Ruby resources than > there is supply?" That's especially a concern when there seems to be an > *endless* supply of Java and Perl and PHP resources, and maybe even > Python and Javascript. > > Anyhow, what do other people here think? I've seen some of the talks that just didn't fit at RubyConf ... I think there's a lot of supply out there. Certainly, there's a lot of untapped potential as well. > > -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com