From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-20T07:16:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [jruby-user] Last chance for JRubyOne...er...JavaOne proposals

Thanks Robert :) I think this will be a great year for JRuby...we have 
an opportunity to win over a lot of converts.

Robert Dempsey wrote:
> I'll throw my hat into that ring. I like Java developers, and am not afraid.
> 
> - Robert Dempsey
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter 
> <charles.nutter@sun.com <mailto: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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