# CFP : First Ruby and Rails devroom at Fosdem 2008

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Hi folks,

The Belgian Ruby U. Group is happy to announce the first Ruby and  
Rails devroom at Fosdem 2008. Fosdem is a gathering of Free and Open  
Source Software developers and the ideal occasion to meet fellow Ruby  
and Rails developers (and 2,000 other FOSS developers). If you have a  
good idea for a talk or tutorial, consider sending in an abstract. You  
can find the Call for Papers at  
[http://wiki.rubyist.be/wiki/show/CallForPapers](http://wiki.rubyist.be/wiki/show/CallForPapers), and quoted below.

See you at Fosdem!

Kind regards,  
Peter V.

* * *

First Ruby and Rails devroom at Fosdem (Brussels, 23-24 Feb 2008)

The Belgian Ruby U. Group [http://www.rubyist.be/](http://www.rubyist.be/) organizes the first  
Ruby and Rails devroom at Fosdem 2008 (Brussels, 23-24 February 2008).  
We are calling on presenters to propose an abstract for a presentation  
in the Ruby and Rails devroom. Topics include, but are not limited to:

```
* Ruby
      o Tutorials (installation, basic Ruby, advanced Ruby,

```

metaprogramming, DSLs, testing, design patterns, Rubygems,  
C-extensions, …)  
o New developments (Ruby 1.9, Ruby 2.0, YARV, JRuby,  
Rubinius, IronRuby, …)  
o Important/interesting libraries (your own, other’s,  
HOWTOs, demos, …)  
o Technical showcases (interesting applications of Ruby,  
challenges, solutions, …)  
o …  
\* Rails  
o Tutorials (installation, basic/advanced web app design,  
good practices, …)  
o New developments (Rails 2.0, …)  
o Important/interesting plugins (your own, other’s, HOWTOs,  
demos, …)  
o Technical showcases (interesting applications of Ruby,  
challenges, solutions, …)  
o …

We accept 10 minute lightning talks, 30 minute and 1 hour regular  
talks and tutorials. Please indicate the preferred length of your  
talk/tutorial in your proposal. We may still slightly adjust this  
length depending on the response we receive.

Please send your abstract to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid before 7 January  
2008. It will be reviewed by the program committee and you will  
receive a decision by 14 January 2008 if your presentation is  
accepted.  
The program committee that will evaluate the proposals is comprised of:

```
* David Delabassee (Sun)
* Laurent Richard (Free Software Consultant)
* Tom Klaasen (10to1)
* Peter V. (XaoP)

```

Entrance to the Fosdem conference and devrooms is entirely free.  
Sorry, we cannot give any travel grants to foreign visitors (local  
hospitality with one of the organizers is possible to save hotel  
costs). In past years, approx. 2,000 people visited the Fosdem  
conference. More information on Fosdem can be found at  
[http://www.fosdem.org/](http://www.fosdem.org/) .

For all further information, check this page:  
[http://wiki.rubyist.be/wiki/show/FosdemDevRoom2008](http://wiki.rubyist.be/wiki/show/FosdemDevRoom2008) .