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Call For Papers (Rev #14)

Second Ruby and Rails devroom at Fosdem (Brussels, 7 Feb 2009)

After last year’s enormous interest, The Belgian Ruby User Group http://www.rubyist.be/ organizes the second Ruby and Rails devroom at Fosdem 2009 (Brussels, 7 February 2009). We are calling on presenters to propose an abstract for a presentation in the Ruby and Rails devroom. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Ruby
  • Tutorials (installation, basic Ruby, advanced Ruby, metaprogramming, DSLs, testing, design patterns, Rubygems, C-extensions, ...)
  • New developments (Ruby 1.9, JRuby, Iron Ruby?, Passenger Phusion, Ruby EE?, ...)
  • Important/interesting libraries (your own, other’s, HOWTOs, demos, ...)
  • Technical showcases (interesting applications of Ruby, challenges, solutions, ...)
  • ...
• Rails
  • Tutorials (installation, basic/advanced web app design, good practices, ...)
  • New developments (Rails 2.2, ...)
  • Important/interesting plugins (your own, other’s, HOWTOs, demos, ...)
  • Technical showcases (interesting applications of Ruby, challenges, solutions, ...)
  • ...

We accept 10 minute lightning talks, 30 minute and 1 hour regular talks and tutorials. Please indicate the preferred length of your talk/tutorial in your proposal. We may still slightly adjust this length depending on the response we receive.

Please send your abstract to cfp_fosdem@rubyist.be before 7 January 2009. It will be reviewed by the program committee and you will receive a decision by 14 January 2009 if your presentation is accepted.

The program committee that will evaluate the proposals is comprised of:

• Tom Klaasen (10to1, tom@10to1.be)
• Peter Vanbroekhoven (XaoP, peter@xaop.com)

Entrance to the Fosdem conference and devrooms is entirely free. Sorry, we cannot give any travel grants to foreign visitors (local hospitality with one of the organizers is possible to save hotel costs). In past years, approx. 2,000 people visited the Fosdem conference. More information on Fosdem can be found at http://www.fosdem.org/ .