From: Ben Bleything Date: 2011-07-16T04:13:55+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Cascadia Ruby Conf schedule; giveaway; registration deadline Hello dear friends! You've heard about Cascadia Ruby Conf, right? It's a little regional conf we're doing in Seattle in a couple of weeks. We've nailed down all of our speakers, and put together a tentative schedule. Here's what it looks like, and you can go to the site (http://cascadiarubyconf.com) to see more details on the talks. Friday (July 29th) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 09:45 - Jim Remsik - 60 to 0 MPH in 2.5 Seconds: A Retrospective 10:30 - Haris Amin - The Enumerable Module or How I fell in Love with Ruby 11:15 - Corey Donohoe - Shipping at the Speed of Life 12:00 - Dylan Stamat - David and Goliath, Ruby and the Enterprise 01:45 - Mando Escamilla - How Community Saved My Life 02:30 - KEYNOTE - John Barnette 03:45 - Lightning Talks 05:00 - Rich Kilmer - It's a Surprise Saturday (July 30th) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 09:45 - Avdi Grimm - Confident Code 10:30 - Gary Bernhardt - The Unix Chainsaw 11:15 - Ian Dees - Playfulness at Work: a Real Serious Message(tm) with Ruby as the Medium 12:00 - Aja Hammerly - Powerful (but Easy) Data Visualization with the Graph Gem 01:45 - Ryan Davis - Mystery Talk 02:30 - KEYNOTE - Chad Fowler 03:45 - Lightning Talks 05:00 - Geoffrey Grosenbach - Code and Creativity Note that we may move some talks around here and there, but that's how things look now! Excited? We are! If you haven't registered yet, let me give you some incentive. Anybody who is registered by 5pm Pacific today is entered to win some really great prizes: 4x 1-year GitHub Small accounts 3x 1-year PeepCode Unlimited subscriptions 3x 1-year Papertrail 2gb/month accounts Thanks a bunch to GitHub, PeepCode, and Papertrail for donating these great prizes! Like I said before, get yourself registered by 5pm today to enter! http://cascadiarubyconf.com/register As a final note, July 25th is the last day to register, so make sure you get your ticket by then. Keep your eyes on @cascadiaruby for more updates as we have 'em! Love, Ben and Shane http://cascadiarubyconf.com