Right country; wrong end. Sorry... On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Gerald Bauer <geraldbauer2007 / gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > >> We're thinking about putting a one-day Ruby event in London, later this >> year. We want to try putting together an event, but organise it a bit >> differently to regular conferences. In a nutshell: >> >> * It should be cheap enough that you can pay for it from your own pocket >> without feeling bad >> * It should be organised completely transparently, with the attendees >> deciding who'd talk and having a pretty good idea what they're going to >> cover >> * Any presentations should be relevant to the attendees, not self-indulgent >> war stories or anecdotes with little value beyond a vaguely warm fuzzy >> feeling. >> >> Will it work? Who knows. To a large extent, it's entirely up to you. > > It's definitely possible. I helped to organize with another > Vancouver.rb fellow a free (!) one-day Ruby (and Rails) (un)conference > in January in Vancouver, B.C on the West Coast in Canada in the > Americas and we will be back with in 2009! More @ > http://rubycamp.wordpress.com > > Cheers. > > -- > Gerald Bauer - Internet and Rails Professional - http://rubybook.ca > > -- Me, I imagine places that I have never seen / The colored lights in fountains, blue and green / And I imagine places that I will never go / Behind these clouds that hang here dark and low But it's there when I'm holding you / There when I'm sleeping too / There when there's nothing left of me / Hanging out behind the burned-out factories / Out of reach but leading me / Into the beautiful sea