acts_as_conference 2008 : Wrap-Up
Brian LeGros | February 10th, 2008 | conferencesOverall, I have to say I really enjoyed my first Ruby conference. The selection of speakers was great, the topics were interesting, and the vibe of the community was cool. The keynote presentations were a little far out for me at first, but after some thought I can definitely appreciate them for the messages they attempted to deliver. In fact, I must admit I have always had a stereotype of the Ruby community as being immature when it comes to development and overly focussed on a single web framework. acts_as_conference did a great job of helping me to douse those misconceptions. Also, I ended up winning a book at the conference on Google Maps, Rails, and AJAX, so that was cool; not sure if I’ll use it, but a nice perk none the less.
If I wasn’t always so busy planning for the Adogo, I would definitely try to get more involved in the Ruby community in Orlando, which is definitely thriving. I don’t know if Ruby is where I’ll end up for any large amount of time, but I’m definitely encouraged to work with it and am having fun in the process. Of course, I’m energized from the conference, so I’m sure my eagerness to fail will kick in over the next few days.
Great work organizers and I look forward to next year’s event.
Tags: code, conference, rails, ruby
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February 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Brian,
Thanks for attending the conference and providing great feedback. As we found out from Peter Armstrong’s talk about Rails on AIR, our two communities can work together to produce some killer apps. Good luck with Adogo. I hope to one day make it to the meeting. We look forward to having you at the next acts_as_conference, and perhaps seeing you at ORUG.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
@Robert - Thanks for stopping by. I’m definitely looking forward to next year’s conference. Good find with Peter, we’re hoping to have him do a presentation for us in the upcoming months. Keep up the great work.
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