From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2008-08-04T10:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyConf 2008 call for talk proposals


On Aug 3, 2008, at 9:09 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 09:24 +0900, James Britt wrote:
>> Richard Kilmer wrote:
>>> Ruby Central is pleased to announce that we are accepting
>>> talk proposals for the 2008 RubyConf to be held in Orlando
>>> Florida November 6-8 (Thursday - Saturday).
>>
>> So the cycling of east coast, west coast, and middle-state location  
>> is
>> no longer?
>>
>> Too bad if true.
>
> Yes ... I was hoping for Seattle again. I probably won't be going in  
> any
> case, since I'm going to be giving a paper at the Computer Measurement
> Group conference in December in Las Vegas, and riding *two*  
> airplanes to
> *two* resorts in a space of a month doesn't appeal to me. :)
>
> But I'm curious ... why Orlando? Is there a big Ruby brigade there? I
> hear the rodents there are *huge*. ;)

We are at a size such that its hard to find hotels that can fit us and  
we are
too small for a convention center type thing (and we like the hotel  
thing for
hanging out, etc).  We checked with well over 40 hotels all across the  
US
and believe it or not, this was the best one for us within the  
constraints of
dates we had.

That, and this Omni freaking rocks!  It will be awesome for hanging  
out which
I think is one of the best things about conferences.

Best,

Rich

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>
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