From: Eleanor McHugh Date: 2011-07-21T06:05:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Another year, another Ruby Conf, another round with the begging bowl On 19 Jul 2011, at 21:55, Matt Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Eleanor McHugh wrote: > >> A touch of deja vu here: UK-based full-time open source developer (http://golightly.games-with-brains.net) on a very restricted budget is booked to speak at RubyConf... Regular readers will recall my similar plaintiff email from last year when along with my friend Elise I was scheduled to cover concurrency. > > Looks like I may not make it. RubyConf sold out before I even knew registration was open. If you can persuade the power that be to sell me a membership, I will help with your food and transportation while in New Orleans... Be lovely if I had that kind of influence - though I suspect I'd probably abuse it for unlimited green M&Ms and other rockstar-ish fripperies ;) However I'll keep an eye out for spare tickets so we can catch up on some of the serious geeking we'll miss in Austin next month. Ellie Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains http://feyeleanor.tel ---- raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason