From: Jeremy McAnally Date: 2008-09-16T22:25:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Getting Employer to Pay for RubyConf Why not suggest that conference OR Rubyconf? The cost alone will likely sway your boss to let you go to Rubyconf. --Jeremy On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Clinton D. Judy wrote: > Now I see the "Voices that Matter" conference, and wondering if it's a better idea. Another guy at our Ruby meetup group said the price looked really steep. And he didn't know how much relevant content you could get from 30 minutes per speaker (like the case study of Rails at the NY Times). And it seemed to be only speakers from Addison-Wesley (though I love "The Rails Way", but don't know about anything else). > > BUT it's in Boston! In November! No one's going to think I'm just going for vacation here. Ha ha! Thoughts on VtM? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Dober [mailto:robert.dober@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 4:52 PM > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: Re: Getting Employer to Pay for RubyConf > > Well seems to me you have had much more success in lobbing for Ruby > than I did, I guess I could have migrated half the project to ruby in > the time they were fighting a religous war if to use C# or Java... > Ok back to issue - obviously I am jealous ;) - why not use the same > approach you always use and BTW as someone pointed out, if your boss > is really concerned about you using Ruby how could he better decide > than by attending Ruby Conf with you, the bad weather threat > withstanding ;). > > Cheers > > > -- > C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. > > Antoine de Saint Exupéry > > > > -- http://jeremymcanally.com/ http://entp.com/ http://omgbloglol.com My books: http://manning.com/mcanally/ http://humblelittlerubybook.com/ (FREE!)