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