On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:43 AM, James Britt wrote:

> Who are those people on the panel?
>
> I have to say I recognize maybe only half the names, and I think  
> I've been pretty attentive to the Ruby world (though not the Rails  
> section).
>
> Are these people active on ruby-talk?
>
> There are no bios, no links to any background info.
>
> And why announce the results at a Rails conf?  Why not at a general  
> Ruby conference?

I also only recognized a few of the panel members (probably the same  
ones that you did). It's pretty clearly a Rails thing, and I would  
assume that's why they're announcing it at RailsConf.