# \[ANN/ADV\] The Ruby Hoedown 2009 -- FREE Ruby conference -- Hoedown Heist, speakers, and only a few **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 26, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-the-ruby-hoedown-2009-free-ruby-conference-hoedown-heist-speakers-and-only-a-few/171126 "2009-06-26T18:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeremy_McAnally)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-adv-the-ruby-hoedown-2009-free-ruby-conference-hoedown-heist-speakers-and-only-a-few/171126/1 "2009-06-26T18:14:42Z")
Hello all! This is just a reminder e-mail about the Ruby Hoedown 2009 ([http://rubyhoedown.com](http://rubyhoedown.com)) in Nashville, TN on August 28-29 (cost is a princely $0). We’ve announced a few new things I’d like to share… # THE HEIST IS ON We want to reward everyone for helping us get more people to the conference, so we’re offering some pretty sweet rewards for helping us hit attendee milestones. Get us up to the next step? Everyone gets some goodies, including: - Deep discounts on books from O’Reilly, Pragmatic, Manning, and more - A free Peepcode episode - Discounts on your favorite web services like Lighthouse, Tender, scrumd, and LessAccounting - and more to come… Check out [http://heist.heroku.com](http://heist.heroku.com) to see which milestone we’re at, what’s coming up on future milestones (we’ll be adding more as the conference gets closer), and how you can help us get to the next one! # KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED We also recently announced our first batch of speakers. Our keynote will be the inimitable JAMIS BUCK, Rails core team member and developer of Capistrano. He’ll be backed up by a posse we’ve assembled of DAVID CHELIMSKY, developer of RSpec, and LEON GERSING, everyone’s favorite @fallenrogue. These guys should offer up some excellent content, but you can always make it better by… # THE CFP IS ENDING SOON …submitting your own talk! Our CFP only has about 5 days left on it, so you better hurry and get those proposals in. We’re looking any sort of technical or otherwise talk that’s vaguely related to Ruby: Who’s to say Rubyists can’t learn from Smalltalk or Erlang? Every hacker needs to know how to organizer her life around their work, right? Learning good modeling skills is essential to being a good developer. Don’t feel like you have to just talk about this library or technique or that one: we’re looking for compelling talks that will inspire, teach, and/or bring a tear to the eye (preferably through emotional means, not some sort of chemical attack). As always, check out the site at [http://rubyhoedown.com](http://rubyhoedown.com) for up to date information and follow us on Twitter at @hoedown for the latest information! Thanks, Jeremy and the rest of the Hoedown peeps – [http://jeremymcanally.com/](http://jeremymcanally.com/) [http://entp.com/](http://entp.com/) > **[Omg GIFs | GIFDB.com](https://gifdb.com/omg)** > > Download Omg GIFs for Free on GifDB. More than 56 Omg Animated GIFs to download. My books: > **[Ruby in Practice](https://www.manning.com/books/ruby-in-practice?new=true&experiment=A)** > > Like Ruby itself, Ruby in Practice will make you more productive. The book shows you practical techniques and strategies for small projects and large-scale environments. A cookbook-style reference, it gives you concrete examples of systems... [http://humblelittlerubybook.com/](http://humblelittlerubybook.com/) (FREE!)