# Re: Crashing RubyConf **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 7, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923 "2006-09-07T23:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923/1 "2006-09-07T23:04:08Z")
From: James B. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] > I think the lobby is a public space until you misbehave enough to get > tossed out. Same for the bar. So you can catch the hallway track. Is there really a ‘hallway track’, or are you just poking fun at my sore spots? If there is, is there a schedule/list of tracks somewhere that we the public have access to? I’d be interested to see what intriguing bits I might be able to learn about if I freeloaded in the public spaces. All I’ve been able to find is: [http://www.rubyconf.com/talks.html](http://www.rubyconf.com/talks.html) (which has no information on locations or times). Or are there just going to be pretty science-fair posters up in the hallway and hobnobbing to be had? ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923/2 "2006-09-07T23:32:17Z")
Gavin K. wrote: > From: James B. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] > > > I think the lobby is a public space until you misbehave enough to get > > tossed out. Same for the bar. So you can catch the hallway track. > > Is there really a ‘hallway track’, or are you just poking fun at my sore > spots? It’s slang for the discussions that occur outside the actual presentation area, such as the lobby, bar, restaurant, pool-side, or wherever geeks gather. My idea of a good conf is when the talks are short and disperse just enough info and ideas to trigger such extended discussions. A good hallway track is a sign of a good conference, and it’s one of the things that makes me keep coming to RubyConf. – James B. “A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it.” - Len Bullard ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923/3 "2006-09-07T23:34:17Z")
On 9/7/06, Gavin K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > From: James B. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] > > > I think the lobby is a public space until you misbehave enough to get > > tossed out. Same for the bar. So you can catch the hallway track. > > Is there really a ‘hallway track’, or are you just poking fun at my > > sore spots? RubyConf is and always has been a single-track event. I have discussed this with David Black sufficiently to suggest that the likelihood of RubyConf ever becoming multi-track is very low. (I think a snowball has a better chance, if you catch my drift.) However, the planning for RubyConf is sufficiently flexible that there _is_ a hallway track in that there’s often a lot of hallway discussions (without the science-fair posters) and some random hacking that gets done. I didn’t attend it, but I hear that one of the more interesting discussions happened around behaviour driven development by the pool in San Diego last year (I think that I was a bit jet-lagged and therefore didn’t attend that). It was in no way an officially planned event. -austin ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923/4 "2006-09-08T12:55:57Z")
Gavin K. wrote: > Is there really a ‘hallway track’, or are you just poking fun at my sore > spots? Maybe we need to institute something equivalent to the 1860s’ Salon des Refusés? > **[Salon des Refusés](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_des_Refus%C3%A9s)** > > The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects" (French pronunciation: ​\[salɔ̃ dɜ ʁəfyze\]), is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863. > Today, by extension, salon des refusés refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show. > The Paris Salon, sponsored by the French government and the Academy of Fine Arts, took place annually, and was a showc... ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923/5 "2006-09-08T00:32:21Z")
Hi – On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Austin Z. wrote: > I didn’t attend it, but I hear that one of the more interesting > discussions happened around behaviour driven development by the pool in > San Diego last year (I think that I was a bit jet-lagged and therefore > didn’t attend that). It was in no way an officially planned event. It was a remarkable sight: a spontaneous pool-side discussion that actually had more people at it than attended the first RubyConf in 2001! David ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923/6 "2006-09-09T01:57:23Z")
Bil K. wrote: > [Salon des Refusés - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_des_Refus%C3%A9s) > Hmm, would that cast David as Napoleon? Hal ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-crashing-rubyconf/67923/7 "2006-09-09T14:34:21Z")
Hal F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > Hmm, would that cast David as Napoleon? Now, guess the Waterloo.