[LRUG] London RoR Conference, July '09 ?

[Roland Swingler]

[Potentially very off-topic]
One of the things that I feel is a bit missing in the conference space
is cross-polination of ideas from different languages. There are a lot
of rails conferences, and a fair few ruby conferences but not many
ruby/python/perl/whatever conferences. QCon does this quite well for
the "enterprise", I think - there aren't many conferences where I can
go and see a talk about Java, Ruby and Haskell in the same afternoon.
I think its a bit of a shame that mostly we end up getting locked into
language silos, where you only meet people from the same language
background.
[/end of off-topic]

Ruby Manor was good - I'm sure Murray & James can give you lots of
advice. From a personal point of view I could stand to spend a bit
more than the £12 it cost for that - but only if it went towards
getting speakers from outside London/the UK. I didn't miss any of the
other things that RubyManor ditched like food & swag.

Cheers,
Roland

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Mark Coleman
<mark at breakthrough-workshop.com> wrote:
> Hello there everyone....
>
> I've just recently joined the mailing list, and I feel a bit of an impostor!
>  Although I live just by the M25, I almost never get into London, so I
> haven't been to any events before...
>
> I feel especially cheeky, since my first post is an attempt to suck your
> brains:
>
> I'm very keen on organising a Ruby on Rails conference in London, in the
> summer (provisionally, July), for Rails enthusiasts.
> I'm still at the planning stage at the moment: trying to get an idea for the
> number of delegates that might want to come, the budget available, getting
> in touch with potential speakers, looking for sponsors, assessing venues
> with the appropriate facilities, etc.
>
> I figure that you guys will have some good tips or ideas, maybe some
> suggestions or volunteers for speakers or sponsors? I have had a couple of
> positive responses from some high profile speakers already, but I'd rather
> reach people directly or through someone they already know, rather than a
> more impersonal e-mail.
>
> At this early stage nothing is set in stone, but I'm hoping to emulate the
> very excellent Scotland on Rails event, so something like of a two day
> conference, with a great line-up of speakers and keynotes. If I can arrange
> a tutorial day, some evening social events and a panel Q&A / discussion
> session that would be a great addition.
>
> So, I just wanted to get some feedback from you guys, any thoughts?
>
> Many thanks!
>
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