From: pat eyler Date: 2006-07-28T14:59:54+09:00 Subject: Re: About last night ... On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > 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. :) Ahh, ok. > > 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. > heh, I was there with my Linux running thinkpad ... no Apple issues here. ;) > > > > 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. Yeah, I'm hoping to get 16-20 proposals, so that we can field 4 "knock their socks off" tracks. The others would make great fodder for one or more local/regional meetings. As it happens, I know about another project that will be looking for quality (written) materials that I hope to be able to start hyping in August. If you just can't wait, there's also Ruby Code & Style who probably wouldn't mind getting a couple of submitted articles. > And there's got to be a few Ruby geeks in > Richland. > Well., there is an olympia.rb that we should try to tap as well. :) The Pacific Northwest is certainly a hotbed of Ruby goodness. > -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com