# Seeking sponsors to fly me to RubyConf **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 29, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746 "2010-09-29T13:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eleanor_McHugh)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746/1 "2010-09-29T13:19:54Z")
UK-based full-time open source developer ([http://golightly.games-with-brains.net](http://golightly.games-with-brains.net)) on a very restricted budget is booked to speak at RubyConf about this: [http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/34](http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/34). Urgent assistance sought with travel expenses and accommodation or I’ll likely miss the gig of my life. So here’s the deal. I’m looking for a company or two willing to fly me from the UK and back for RubyConf and find me somewhere to sleep whilst I’m in New Orleans. The payoff? You’ll get your logo and a “sponsored by” on the front page of the presentation, both at the conference and everywhere I publish the slides online, along with a thank you in my project docs and on the project wiki. That’s right. Your company name associated with a delicious slab of deep-geek code-fest at the premiere Ruby conference of the English-Speaking world, along with proof of your commitment to innovative open source development. And that’s not all: you’ll also get full credit as the Very First Sponsors of GoLightly, the open-source next-generation virtual machine toolkit designed specifically for modern concurrent hardware and heterogeneous environments. Imagine how sexy your company will look five years from now when GoLightly is the Application Virtualisation technology of choice for the discerning hacker 🙂 Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://feyeleanor.tel](http://feyeleanor.tel) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eleanor_McHugh)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746/2 "2010-09-29T13:53:51Z")
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Eleanor McHugh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > UK-based full-time open source developer ([http://golightly.games-with-brains.net](http://golightly.games-with-brains.net)) on a very restricted budget is booked to speak at RubyConf about this: [http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/34](http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/34). Urgent assistance sought with travel expenses and accommodation or I’ll likely miss the gig of my life. Ellie, I wish I could offer you more than my best wishes for this. I need to get there myself [http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/39](http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/39) and I’m using up frequent flyer points. I was excited when I saw you on the program and I’m looking forward to meeting you in person. – Rick DeNatale Blog: [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) Github: [rubyredrick (Rick DeNatale) · GitHub](http://github.com/rubyredrick) Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: [http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale) LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale](http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale) ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eleanor_McHugh)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746/3 "2010-09-29T15:41:00Z")
On 29 Sep 2010, at 12:52, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Eleanor McHugh > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > UK-based full-time open source developer ([http://golightly.games-with-brains.net](http://golightly.games-with-brains.net)) on a very restricted budget is booked to speak at RubyConf about this: [http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/34](http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/34). Urgent assistance sought with travel expenses and accommodation or I’ll likely miss the gig of my life. > > Ellie, > > I wish I could offer you more than my best wishes for this. I need to > get there myself [http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/39](http://www.rubyconf.org/presentations/39) Should be a very interesting session - hopefully full of insights I can steal for GoLightly before I make a hash of its object support. > and I’m using up frequent flyer points. I know that feeling all too well. The last of my travel budget for the year’s going on Strange Loop next month, which is my first serious chance to talk about the stuff I’m currently working, and then aside from RubyConf I’m also hoping to get to Conferencia Rails in Madrid. I’ve decided God will provide, whether he likes it or not! Although it looks like he’ll probably need a helping hand from me lol It makes me realise how much I used to take travel for granted when I was a productive member of the community and not some despicable ramen-eating, twitter-stalking hacker 🙂 > I was excited when I saw you on the program and I’m looking forward to > meeting you in person. Does seem a bit mad that we’ve been chatting here for five years or so and not met offline. Clearly I need to round up the entire US Ruby community and repatriate you to London. I’d did briefly consider making the move the other way, but it seems like a lot more effort \>8o And I’m sure you’d all get used to our beer and weather eventually 😉 Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://feyeleanor.tel](http://feyeleanor.tel) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eleanor_McHugh)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746/4 "2010-09-30T17:06:35Z")
On 29 Sep 2010, at 16:37, Roger P. wrote: > > So here’s the deal. > > > > I’m looking for a company or two willing to fly me from the UK and back > > for RubyConf and find me somewhere to sleep whilst I’m in New Orleans. > > start a pledgie? Looks like that might be the way to go. Well, either that or bank robbery lol Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://feyeleanor.tel](http://feyeleanor.tel) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eleanor_McHugh)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746/5 "2010-09-29T17:37:14Z")
> So here’s the deal. > > I’m looking for a company or two willing to fly me from the UK and back > for RubyConf and find me somewhere to sleep whilst I’m in New Orleans. start a pledgie? -r ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eleanor_McHugh)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746/6 "2010-10-01T03:18:11Z")
On 30 Sep 2010, at 16:01, Eleanor McHugh wrote: > On 29 Sep 2010, at 16:37, Roger P. wrote: > > > > So here’s the deal. > > > > > > I’m looking for a company or two willing to fly me from the UK and back > > > for RubyConf and find me somewhere to sleep whilst I’m in New Orleans. > > > > start a pledgie? > > Looks like that might be the way to go. Well, either that or bank robbery lol Having been prodded a few times about a Pledgie campaign, I’ve taken the hint 🙂 Anyone who believes RubyConf will be materially improved by having an Ellie on the premises can now immanentize my eschaton at: [http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/13596](http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/13596) I’m trying to raise a total of £700, £500 for the air fare from London and another £200 to cover hotel and living expenses for the four or five days I’ll be in New Orleans. Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://feyeleanor.tel](http://feyeleanor.tel) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@Eleanor\_McHugh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Eleanor_McHugh)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-sponsors-to-fly-me-to-rubyconf/195746/7 "2010-10-02T16:20:59Z")
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. This is the first time I’ve ever looked for assistance in this way and to be honest I’m still somewhat speechless: the final total raised by my pledgie campaign ([http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13596](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13596)) is £837 which leaves £802.31 after deducting paypal fees! To make good on my offer of recognition I’ll be in touch with everyone who contributed to see how best that can be achieved. And for those who contributed anonymously and don’t wish their identity disclosed, I hope I can find some other way to repay your kindness in the future. Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://feyeleanor.tel](http://feyeleanor.tel) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason