From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2006-07-28T14:47:07+09:00 Subject: Re: About last night ... pat eyler wrote: > 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. I was (deliberately) being quiet and unobtrusive for the most part. If it matters, I was the one who asked the question about whether BFTS was available for download. :) Oh, yeah ... what is it about Ruby and Macintoshes? I'm glad I didn't have my dual-booted Windows XP Pro/Gentoo Linux laptop there ... I think I would have felt like an outsider. > 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. Well ... it's a long drive but I'd go. Just don't have the Ruby track at the same time as the Gentoo track! > > 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. 4 talks? You'll get 16 to 20 just out of Seattle alone! Then there's Portland and Vancouver BC. And there's got to be a few Ruby geeks in Richland.