[FOSDEM] Call for papers: Ruby and Rails devroom at fosdem 2009 (Sat 7 Feb 2009)

10 Dec 2008

      Hi,

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
          o Tutorials (installation, basic Ruby, advanced Ruby,
metaprogramming, DSLs, testing,
             design patterns, Rubygems, C-extensions, GUI programming,
             multi-processing/multi-threading…)
          o New developments (Ruby 1.9, JRuby, IronRuby, ...)
          o Important/interesting libraries (your own, other's,
HOWTOs, demos, ...)
          o Technical showcases (interesting applications of Ruby,
challenges, solutions, ...)
          o ...
    * Rails
          o Tutorials (installation, basic/advanced web app design,
good practices, ...)
          o New developments (Rails 2.1/2.2, Phusion Passenger,
RubyEE, NeverBlock, cloud computing, ...)
          o Important/interesting plugins (your own, other's, HOWTOs,
demos, ...)
          o Technical showcases (interesting applications of Rails,
challenges, solutions, ...)
          o ...

You can view last year's program at
http://wiki.rubyist.be/wiki/show/FosdemDevroom2008AceptedPapers

Please consider sending in an abstract for presentation.

More details can be found at: http://wiki.rubyist.be/wiki/show/CallForPapers

Sincerely,

Peter Vandenabeele