From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T07:16:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [jruby-user] Last chance for JRubyOne...er...JavaOne proposals

Great Dean, sounds like a perfect topic. Maybe even more likely to get 
in than a talk focused on a single language.

Dean Wampler wrote:
> Hey, Charlie,
> 
> I proposed a "polyglot" talk, where I'll make the case for "mixing it
> up" on the JVM using one (or more) of JRuby, Scala, or Clojure. I
> intend to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of each language and
> how to choose what's best for your needs, etc., etc.
> 
> dean
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
> <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
>> Today is the last day for JavaOne proposals, and we're really hoping to get
>> some "real" rubyists showing these Java guys how it's done. Right now we've
>> got some basic proposals for a Ruby language/classes/libraries intro, a
>> JRuby/Java integration talk, various deployment talks for different servers,
>> GUI and Graphics talks, and hopefully we'll get someone from Rails core to
>> do a Rails talk. But what are we missing? Do you have a talk or know someone
>> with a really convincing talk that would help win over some of the Java
>> masses?
>>
>> At any rate, if you have anything you'd like to present to a big room (our
>> JRuby talks have been in a room that seats 1500), stop by
>> http://java.sun.com/javaone/ and give it a shot. There's a whole world of
>> developers there (15k people at JavaOne last year) that really need to learn
>> Ruby.
>>
>> - Charlie
>>
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