Ruby/Rails Meetup Groups and Ruby Brigades in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest

Meet Rubyists and Railers in your city and attend a Ruby/Rails meetup or Ruby Brigade hack night. Groups include:

In Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta):

• Vancouver Ruby Brigade (Vancouver.rb)
• Victoria Ruby Users Group
• Calgary Ruby Users Society (CRUserS)

In the Pacific Northwest in the United States (Washington, Oregon):

• Seattle Ruby Brigade (Seattle.rb)
• Portland Ruby Brigade (PDX.rb)

Thanks to all – See you at the Vancouver RubyCamp in 2009

Thanks for joining us for Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp. Special thanks to all our speakers and our sponsors. Speakers included:

Eric Promislow, Scott Patten, Jim Pick, Mark Mayo, Joe Bowser, Brock Whitten, Eric Hodel, Ryan Davis, Vince Hodges, Paul Prescod, Kurt Cagle, Alexey Verkhovsky, Tom Kukuljevic-Pearce, Marc Gomez, Ian Suda

See you at the Vancouver RubyCamp in 2009!

Showtime! Join us for Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp today from 9 to 5 – Free and Everyone Welcome

Doors will open at 9 o’clock and we will kick-off camp-style with a talk scheduling session starting at 9:15.

The idea is that everyone interested in presenting gives a two/three minute summary and than we arrange the schedule and room assignments depending on interest and expected audience and start off with the first talks at 9:30.

For the non-hack-a-thon we will have 45 minutes slots:

• 9:30-10:15
• 10:15-11:00
• 11:00-11:45
• Lunch Break
• 1:00-1:45
• 1:45-2:30
• 2:30-3:15
• 3:15-4:00
• 4:00-4:45
• The End

For upcoming talks, see our RubyCamp wiki.

If you plan to speak today, just add yourself to the wiki to help us with the scheduling and planning. We accept last minute talks.

See you all at Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp.

We Heart JavaScript Talks About Ruby’s Ugly-Cool Half-Sister

Note, that we welcome talks on JavaScript – “Ruby’s ugly-cool half-sister” to quote err.the_blog.

Need talk ideas? Have talk ideas? Stop at our RubyCamp event wiki page.

Upcoming JavaScript-centric talks include:

• Wrangling Large Data Sets with Rails and JavaScript
• Introduction to Ruby-Generated JavaScript (RJS)
• TrimPath Junction (Ruby on Rails in 100 % JavaScript)
• What’s Ahead for JavaScript?

Interested in presenting at RubyCamp 2008? Send in your talk proposal today!

Welcome – Join us for Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp @ WorkSpace on January 26th, 2008

Welcome. You are invited to join us for RubyCamp 2008 in Vancouver on Saturday, January 26th.

RubyCamp is a free one-day gathering for Rubyists and Railers.

When and Where:

WorkSpace in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Canada
January 26th, 2008 from 9:00 to 5:00

Who Should Come:

Anyone who’s interested in Ruby and Rails, whether you’re just interested in learning what this Ruby thing is all about or you know Ruby inside out.

The Conference Track:

A conference-style track with “classic” talks on Ruby or Rails topics. We’re looking for a few more speakers, send in your talk proposal!

The Hackathon Track:

An informal un-conference track focusing on hacking some Ruby code, showing off a cool feature you just added to your Rails application or demonstrating a new addition to Rails 2.0. If you’re interested in working on some code or showing off something, get started by promoting your ideas and get some buzz going.

About Vancouver:

Vancouver is located in Beautiful British Columbia on Canada’s Pacific West Coast. While you’re in the 2010 Winter Olympics City take advantage of the great snowboarding and skiing in nearby Whistler/Blackcomp or Cypress Mountain.

See you all at RubyCamp in Vancouver.