Ruby Conferences and Tracks
Posted by Gregg Pollack June 18, 2008 @ 02:15 PM
There are several Ruby / Rails related conferences coming up in the next few months. Some of these are smaller regional conferences, and some of them are larger conferences which have their own Ruby tracks. If you know of any additional events, please comment and I’ll add them to this list.
July 21-25 – OSCON in Portland, Oregon
This year O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention is sporting a nice looking Ruby Track with several advanced topics. Yup, this is at the Portland Convention Center, same place as Railsconf.
Cost: $1345 (sessions only)
August 1-2 – Ruby Nation in Herndon, VA
A Washington DC Regional area Ruby conference with a great location: right next to the Washington Dulles Airport.
Cost: $175
August 8-9 – Ruby Hoedown in Huntsville, AL
A southeast regional Ruby conference located just down the street from the Space Center (aka Spacecamp).
Cost: $199
August 15-17 – erubycon in Columbus, OH
A conference dedicated to Ruby’s place in the Enterprise, organized by EdgeCase.
Cost: $199
September 4-6 – Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin, TX
A regional Ruby conference deep in the heart of Texas. They haven’t announced their speakers or opened registration yet, but I’m told they will shortly.
Cost: $250
September 20 – Windy City Rails in Chicago, IL
A day long Rails conference in Chicago covering the freshest topics in the Rails world put together by Chicago Ruby.
Cost: $99
November 17-21 – QCon in San Francisco, CA
InfoQ and Trifork (from JAOO) put together this annual San Francisco conference with a DSLs in Practice and Ruby for the Enterprise track that any Ruby programmer would probably enjoy.
Cost: $1,695 (sessions only)
Also worth mentioning:
- Ruby Fringe is July 18-20, but tickets are no longer available.
- Railsconf Europe is September 2-4 as David announced last week.
- Rubyconf is November 6-8 in Orlando, FL, but rubyconf.org doesn’t have any information about that yet.
- Voices that Matter: Professional Ruby Conference is November 17-20 in Boston, MA. I’m told more details will be revealed next month.
- Merb Camp is hasn’t been officially announced yet, but I hear it might be October 11-12 in San Diego.
- Railscamp #3 is going on this weekend (June 20-22) near Sydney, Australia, and there’s also a Railscamp UK being planned for sometime in August.
- RuPy is this weekend (Saturday, June 21) in Omsk, Russia.
If I’ve missed any conferences, please let me know and I’ll be happy to add them.
Thanks for gathering these up, Gregg!
Two more to add to the list: RailsCamp #3 is happening near Sydney this weekend. The first two were absolutely awesome (although I’m biased, I ran the second one).
And I should have details for RailsCamp UK announced by the end of the week. It’ll be happening in mid August.
Oh, and a link for the AU camp: http://railscamp08.org/
Incredible to think that there are no Ruby-related conferences anywhere else in the world outside of the USA. Wow!
Pat: my sarcastic point above would be more awesome if my comment came first… :)
I tried to find all the Ruby related events in the world… really I did… =/
I did mention Railsconf Europe, and I just added Pat’s Railscamp events.
Let me know if you hear of any others… like .. not in the US.
Nic: Heh, sorry I’ll try to time my comments to fit in with your jokes :)
Gregg: Thanks for the update, appreciated. And I’d expect there’ll be a fourth RailsCamp in Australia towards the end of the year (if I have any say in it, anyway).
RuPy conference will be in Russia, Omsk city at this weekends. More info: http://rupy.ru
Topfunky has maintained http://rubyonrailsworkshops.com/ for quite some time and it always seems quite up to date.
Thanks for your nice work. I was looking for an interesting conference after the Summer.
Ruby Kaigi 2008 is being held from today for 3 days at Tsukuba, Japan
http://jp.rubyist.net/RubyKaigi2008/?english
I keep a list of conferences and workshops (which is also listed under “Worth Attention” in the sidebar). I’ve added a few from Gregg’s list that were missing.
http://rubyonrailsworkshops.com/
excellent overview! now we have to pack our bags and travel the world :)
@Dr Nic: RubyFringe is in Toronto, Canada. We’re not a state, yet.
Hey guys, love your podcast! You missed announcing eRubyCon in your announcements :). It’s going to be an awesome one! Keep up the great work.