[LRUG] London RoR Conference, July '09 ?

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

I think whatever happens this year,
there needs to be a tshirt.

Even if it's an unofficial tshirt.

2009/1/28 Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com>:
> [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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