Great Lakes Ruby Bash Blog

Here’s some photos Winston Tsang took during lunch.

Patrick Hurley and Daniel Berger

Larry Karnowski, Michael Bleigh and Jim Weirich

Brandon Dimcheff

Don Barlow & Max Thorn Stashi

Great Lakes Ruby Bash have started.

Registration has been phenomenal.  70 registered attendees.

If you aren’t able to join us in person, please feel free to join us online, here at the blog, or more actively here:

• Follow @greatlakesruby on Twitter and utilize the #greatlakesrubybash hashtag

• #glrb is our pre-, post-, and live-conference IRC channel; attendees and interested parties welcome
• Join the Great Lakes Ruby Bash Google Group for conference follow-ups, such as announcements of slide availability and post-conference discussion.

The first talk is over, Predicting The Future, and the slides have been posted.

As we get the slides for other talks, we’ll post them here on the blog.

We decided not to go with the cheapest lunches and spend just a little more to get something nice.  Lunch bags will be provided by the Glass House Cafe, located inside the Palmer Commons, and which is the Ann Arbor outpost of Evans Street Station.  They have nine sandwiches to choose from, two of which are vegetarian.

Of the sandwiches offered, here are the top four ordered by our attendees:

• Stacked Ham with Vermont white cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and Dijon mustard
• Shaved Roast Beef with horseradish cream, crispy onion, and arugula
• Smoked Turkey with jarlsberg, lettuce, tomato, and aioli
• Grilled Portabello with roasted red pepper, red onion, provolone and pesto

Stacked Ham is currently the favorite, with at three-way tie for second place.

We can still get your lunch order in if you register for the conference by the end of the day (Tuesday, October 7th, 11:59pm EDT).  Register here!

Conference registrants (and speakers) are coming from all over — from Denver/Boulder to Chapel Hill.

If you too would like to join us, register soon.

We are excited to announce that Jim Weirich — well-known and prolific Rubyist and a highly rated speaker — will be giving a talk at the Great Lakes Ruby Bash.  His talk is entitled Playing it Safe — How to write library friendly code in Ruby.

Should be great!

We are pleased to announce that we are accepting talk proposals for the Great Lakes Ruby Bash to be held in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Saturday, October 11th.

Talks that are either 30 minutes or 1 hour in length are requested. You can specify whether you could provide your talk in either (or both) lengths of time.

Anything that’s related to Ruby is welcome. Here are some possible ideas:

• The Ruby lanugage itself
• Interesting techniques or approaches in Ruby
• Useful and cool libraries, new or old
• Web frameworks such as Rails, Merb, etc.
• Software development philosophies or techniques
• Using Ruby in interesting ways or contexts
• The business side of Ruby and/or Rails
• Whatever you think would be interesting to the Ruby community….

Please submit your talk proposals to:

   http://greatlakesrubybash.org/speaker_form.html

Additional information about the conference, including registration, can be found at:

   http://greatlakesrubybash.org

Thanks! We look forward to hearing from you.

Registration for the Great Lakes Ruby Bash is now open.  The cost will be $50 and will include lunch.  The bash will take place in Forum Hall of Palmer Commons at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  We’ll keep you updated as we add speakers and sponsors.

O’Reilly, through the O’Reilly User Group & Professional Association Program, is providing our conference with some books.

In the future, we’ll be posting the list of books that will be given away during the conference.

Remember that as a UG member you get discounts on all O’Reilly books and conferences.

Tags: Sponsors

Ruby Inside has listed the Great Lakes Ruby Bash among other upcoming Ruby- and/or Rails-related conferences.  It’s interesting to see what associations people have with Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan….