Another Ruby Conf Speaker needing to pull out the Tin Cup

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On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Eleanor McHugh
[email protected] wrote:

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of a number of people here I can now afford not only my roundtrip flight from London to New Orleans but also all the other costs involved in attending RubyConf.

Ellie,

Congratulations, I was hoping to make a contribution to your cause,
but unfortunately, my latest sub-contracting gig just got suspended
once again due to the budget constraints of the customer.

So I’m going to take a leaf out of your book and go the pledgie route
myself.

http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13677

I think I have more friends than not in the ruby lang group, so I’m
hoping that enough of you will find the heart to throw something in
and save me.

And if anyone has a (preferably long-term) job opportunity for a very
experienced OO Programmer and Rubyist, I wouldn’t mind hearing from
you.

–
Rick DeNatale

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Twitter: @RickDeNatale
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On 6 Oct 2010, at 15:29, Rick DeNatale wrote:

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Eleanor McHugh
[email protected] wrote:

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of a number of people here I can now afford not only my roundtrip flight from London to New Orleans but also all the other costs involved in attending RubyConf.

Ellie,

Congratulations, I was hoping to make a contribution to your cause,
but unfortunately, my latest sub-contracting gig just got suspended
once again due to the budget constraints of the customer.

Sad to say, this is an all too common problem in the current economic
climate. My last full-time gig suffered the same fate and the market
here in the UK for Ruby developers is very flat (although it wouldn’t be
quite so flat if I were a little better suited to pair programming lol).

So I’m going to take a leaf out of your book and go the pledgie route myself.

http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13677

I think I have more friends than not in the ruby lang group, so I’m
hoping that enough of you will find the heart to throw something in
and save me.

I wish I could contribute financially, but as I can’t I’ve tweeted the
link to your Pledgie campaign.

Hope to see you in New Orleans :slight_smile:

Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://feyeleanor.tel

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