RubyFringe

So I've been meaning to write about a conference I'll be going to, RubyFringe in Toronto, July 18-20. I'm looking forward to it, partially because it's described as "Deep nerd tech with punk rock spirit" and the speakers sound pretty interesting. Most conferences are about as fun as a trip to the bank.

At ETech '08 I met Pete Forde and some other people involved with RubyFringe. We hung out a bit and had some crappy barbeque with people like Anil Dash and Dan Grigsby. It was a really good time and I'm looking forward to being around the types of geeks who would come to RubyFringe.

RubyFringe will be pretty informal. So I'm planning on wearing pajama pants the whole conference, and I'm even going to give my talks in pajama pants. Unless it's too hot, in which case I'll wear my cut-off pajama pants. I might have to buy some new ones, gotta look fresh yo.

I'll be talking about CouchDB, and maybe about what it's like to move your family somewhere cheap and live off savings to build the next great open source database. If you are going, send me feedback what you want to hear about and I'll make sure to cover it.

Posted April 21, 2008 12:07 PM

Comments

That is awesome. Now I wish I was going just for that.

Jeremy Zawodny, April 21, 2008 6:03 PM

Hey Damien, as long as you're coming to Toronto, any chance you'll come up to the (IBM) lab and speak ?

Aron, April 21, 2008 7:37 PM

Damien, I won't be able to make it to Toronto to hear you speak, but as someone who is about to take several months off to work on a personal project that will probably not make me a tonne of money (at least for the next while), I would really like to hear how you did it. Have you written about it in the past?

Aaron, April 21, 2008 10:31 PM

I'm not requesting anything in particular, but I'm looking forward to seeing you at RubyFringe, pyjamas or no. RubyFringe is going to be awesome! :-)

Paul Doerwald, April 23, 2008 10:44 AM

I'd love to hear about why CouchDb is better than Notes. Or, if you don't think you can seriously address that topic, then as a fallback I'd like to hear about why you think CouchDb is better than Groove.
TIA!

Bob Balaban, April 24, 2008 10:36 PM