Really good points Dominic! What about the second week end of October? October 10-11? <-- total brainstorm
Dominic I really like your idea of putting a San Diego stamp on the conference, maybe if we can't find a venue we should organize the meetings at the beach :p -Matt On 5/22/08, Dominic Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm all for for a Merb specific event for at least one of the days, and yes > the first Merb event would be nice. In September there is also the Europe > RailsConf, and the Lone Star Ruby Conference, as well as the Ruby Hoedown in > late August. So there are plenty of Ruby/Rails options out there. Having a > Merb event would help differentiate us from some of other conferences. > I also like the idea of it being similar to BarCamp, the unconf nature > would attract a lot more people IMO and provide a different vibe than other > conferences. A vibe that I feel would be more San Diegan than others. Also, > since Merb is still young and evolving, having a full organized conference > might foster as much conversation as a BarCamp type event. > > Having a Merb specific event isn't to say we can't have a Rails or Ruby > event as well down the road, but I think its a great place to start. > > - Dominic > > On May 22, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > > FYI people, we are taking comments, suggestions, even insults. There is no > guarantee it will happen but I would love for us (the SDRuby community) to > host the very first Merb Camp. Patrick and the rest of the team also had > other ideas so this is a work in progress but let us know what you think. > > Some of the comments were that maybe we should organize more of a ruby conf > with some merb in it. Or a merb and rails day + a hackfest type day. Etc... > > Personally I really want a merb event since that would be the very first > Merb event. The second day I think it would be great to open to other > solutions, Ramaze, Camping, pure Rack and other ruby stuff. > > I was thinking about an unconf a la bar camp but with some organized talks. > I hope to have Yehuda Kats to come for the meeting and maybe some other > guys. > > What do you guys think? > > -Matt > > On 5/22/08, Adam Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> +1 for me. Sounds like a really great idea! It will give me a good chance >> to review the stable MERB. >> >> - Adam >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
