[LRUG] Pizza on Rails and the big LonConf

[Michael Studman]

I'm another one of the 10+ who got a 15% discount back in June and I 
paid for this out of my own pocket. FYI: I'm an enterprise Java 
consultant trying to introduce Ruby and Rails under the corporate radar.

ￂﾣ500 is a lot to spend and only your own personal circumstances can 
justify it or not, but I look at the outlay this way:

1) A 2 day Rails conference with RailsConf's calibre of presenter will 
short-circuit countless 'off the corporate clock' late nights and 
weekends of browsing and monkeying about just to find what's 
interesting, effective, hot or not in the Rails / Ruby world.
2) As Dan pointed out it's a great opportunity to network - find a 
future employer, colleague, startup co-founder or open source project 
co-contributer. All of which will help immensely if you decide to make 
the jump into the Ruby / Rails world. You might even make a friend or two.
3) You will definitely meet some really interesting people with 
backgrounds and careers quite dissimilar to your own.

Hope this helps...

Michael.
>> I was just wondering how many other people were paying out of their 
>> own
>>     
> hard-earned cash￢ﾀﾦ please tell me I am being tight and help me justify spending over ￂﾣ500 on this > conference!
>
> I paid out of my own pocket. I think 10+ people on this list got together and we got a 15% discount or something (see skillsmatter site). Anyway it worked out we paid 395 inclusive of VAT. And I'm not even a web developer, I am a tester who uses Ruby and Watir.
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