News
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Now Hosted on BrightBox(es)
Last week, on a train with flaky wifi, Alan posted the session list for the conference and forgot to add any caching. Our little rails app became a greasy hole in the ground and the server was so crushed, he couldn’t even ssh back on to fix it.
Alan’s been soundly beaten and the caching problem was fixed…however…
During the panic, Brightbox offered to host the site for us on a much more solid rig, which may actually have survived the cacheless frenzy, but we’ll never know.
We figured it would be silly to turn down the generous offer of a couple of load-balanced 1Gig servers in case Alan decided to pull the same stunt next year.
A big thanks to Brightbox !
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Platinum Sponsor - 55degrees
A big welcome to Scottish company 55degrees, who are our new Platinum sponsor. It’s great to have such prominent sponsorship from a local company. And now a word from our sponsor:
55degrees operate at the intersection of video, design & interactivity. Our goal is to empower great storytelling; by everyone! Our chosen development toolset is Ruby on Rails and Google Apps (we are Authorised Resellers). But we also like Cocoa, Android and other things that help make communication fun. We are growing fast and will be recruiting throughout 2010 – so we are keen to meet people interested in joining our team. Check out http://www.55degrees.co.uk/company/recruitment
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ELC Technologies - Silver sponsor
Welcome back to ELC Technologies, who have also sponsored the last two conferences. It’s great to see you again. And now, that word from our sponsor:-
Founded in 1991, ELC Technologies delivers the value of next-generation Web technologies to today’s businesses, harnessing the power of mobile applications, cloud computing, and software as a service (SaaS). ELC Technologies’ leadership in agile software development processeshas brought success to business-critical implementations for clients ranging from Cisco to Tribune Interactive to LiveNation. The company is a worldwide leader in Ruby on Rails development and has pioneered dynamic language development across multiple platforms. Short iterations, demos early and often, and constant client communication regarding vision and progress are all part of the ELC promise and what makes them such a valuable development partner for Global 2000 companies.
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We Have a Program !
Choosing sessions this year was extraordinarily hard. We had more than 80 proposals and initially we planned on only 20 slots.
We added another track, bringing the total to three, so we were able to accept more than 30 proposals!
There were still so many proposals we couldn’t accept, but we hope those submitters will submit again next year.
This year, we’ve tried really hard to create a balanced program. Low and High level material, fresh and experienced, local and foreign presenters.
We haven’t organised a schedule yet, so we’re not sure which talks will be be on which days, or which rooms, but we thought you’d like to see the program as a work in progress.
We hope you’re as excited about this program as we are.
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Saturday night is party night!
We were so sad to finish last year’s conference that we have decided to extend this year’s with The Official Scottish Ruby Conference Party(*).
We will be laying on entertainment, food, and a bar on in the Royal College of Physicians’ Great Hall on the evening of the 27th March.
Hooray!
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LCN - Gold sponsorship
Big cheers for LCN as they join the ranks of our Gold sponsors. Here’s a word from them.
LCN.com are one of the leading domain registration and web hosting companies in the UK. LCN’s developers solely use Ruby on Rails to develop their web applications and show an active interest in the Ruby community. They are currently developing their Ruby Cloud Hosting infrastructure which is due for release in the 2nd quarter of 2010.
Additionally they are offering 10% off all new purchases to delegates attending the “Scottish Ruby Conference”. To receive your discount, simply use voucher code RUBYROCKS now at www.LCN.com.
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ScotRubyConf 5K Registration
For all those who asked, you can now register for the conference 5K run here.
If you don’t run regularly, now is probably the best time to commit to running in the 5k – it’s 9 weeks until the conference and the gentle and effective Couch to 5K programme is 9 weeks long.
If you do run – well come and join in :-).
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Registration Open
Registration opened at 15:00 GMT, Tuesday January 19. Prices are
- £165 – Early Bird ticket
- £195 – Full price ticket (still limited)
Update: Early bird tickets sold out in 2 hours, 20 mins. Full-price tickets are still available.
You an register here
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Gold Sponsors - Microsoft
We’re pretty excited to welcome our new sponsors – Microsoft. With the imminent arrival of IronRuby 1.0 we should look forward to welcoming a new influx of Rubyists from the land of .Net. Here’s that word from our sponsor:-
Microsoft is working hard to help Open Source developers take advantage of Windows, the .NET Framework and the new Windows Azure Platform for cloud computing to build great applications. Did you know that Ruby on Rails can be deployed on Windows Azure? Did you know that Microsoft makes IronRuby, a version of Ruby that works great with the .NET Framework or that we have developed an a Open Source MVC framework? Have you heard of the Codeplex Foundation, a foundation created to help commercial software companies and open source communities effectively collaborate? If you want to find out more about Microsoft’s work in any of these areas, then keep an eye out for members of our UK team who will be available throughout the conference.
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CFP Closed
The Call for Proposals closed today with 83 proposed sessions for 20 available slots. Thanks to everyone who submitted – we received 83 proposals for 20 available slots. Sadly, we will need to reject many excellent talks.
We are working hard on selection and hope to have a preliminary programme available in the next few weeks.
