A touch of deja vu here: UK-based full-time open source developer = (http://golightly.games-with-brains.net) on a very restricted budget is = booked to speak at RubyConf... Regular readers will recall my similar = plaintiff email from last year when along with my friend Elise I was = scheduled to cover concurrency. Thanks to the generosity of a number of ruby-talk stalwarts I made it to = the conference and together we showed a packed room how to apply a = number of different concurrency models from other languages to Ruby. And = as an encore I gave a lightning talk on Go which covered everything from = basic syntax to the deepest tricks of type reflection in less than four = minutes. You'd have thought after that the RubyConf crew would have learned their = lesson, but it seems not as I'm booked again this year with the = imaginatively titled Go<->Ruby = (http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/19). This is a session on Google = Go for Rubyists, based on close to two years of study and research. It = will be a companion to the session I'm giving remotely at LSRC next = month and together I'm hoping that along with the docs provided by = google they'll be sufficient for any competent Rubyist to pick up Go and = use it in production systems with minimum learning curve. As my budget currently runs to ramen noodles and bus fares but not much = else I'm looking for sponsors to assist with my Travel Fund [0], which = this year has a target of =A31100. That's a bump on last year as aside = from flying over for 4/5 nights I intend to stay at the conference hotel = [1]. In the highly unlikely event that the interwebs prove more bountiful = than that, the additional funds will go towards the day-to-day costs of = working full-time on my open-source projects. These currently include a = Ruby-style enumerator library for Go and the festering vapourware of = GoLightly, my virtual machine toolkit [2]. Aside from giving one of my trademark incomprehensible, code-heavy = extemporisations I'll also be available throughout the conference to = answer questions about Go - and if anyone fancies a training session I'd = be happy to arrange something for a small consideration. Ellie [0] http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15689 [1] I stayed at a motel in Jefferson Parish last year, which was an = 'interesting' experience. [2] Which will one day be the basis for a soft realtime Ruby = implementation in Go. Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains http://feyeleanor.tel ---- raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason=