Thank you & closing thoughts

[Karel Minařík]

Hi all,

thank you once again for coming to Euruko, all the attendees and the
sponsors.

I was the funny guy running all over the place, screaming at you when
you wanted to go with saucers full of onion soup to carpeted rooms,
when kicking the electricity down by putting every laptop in charge
simultaneously etc etc :), nervous that everything will just fall apart.

I hope that you enjoyed the event. We already received great positive
feedback, so thank you!

Nonethless, whatever you think was done bad, don't leave it to
yourself. Put that online, here, at your blog and post a link,
whatever, so we *and* the people organizing the next Euruko can get
feedback.

I also hope that the spirit of Euruko, going a bit against to current
trends in developer conferences (overselling to vendors, ridiculously
high prices, etc etc) was preserved and will continue. I will put
together a knowledge-base of lessons learned, budget details,
contacts to sponsors, stuff like that, which will be made available
to next organizers.

Next Euruko can be quite different than this year's Euruko. Why not?
The world will be a different one next year as well. Things shouldn't
stay the same. But hopefully the spirit continues!

See you!

Karel Minarik

--
www.karmi.cz

[Adam Byrtek]

Karel, thanks for a great conference and giving me an excuse to visit
Prague again. I had felt in love with this city when I stayed there
for a semester studying at Universita Karlova a few years ago. To the
future organizers - if you need any help from Polish User Group, don't
hesitate to contact us!

Regards,
Adam

PS. Croissants with coffee was a perfect match! :)

--
Adam Byrtek | Alpha
http://www.adambyrtek.net
http://www.codesprinters.com

[Karel Minarik]

Hi Adam,

thank you!! :)

Karel

[Sandro Paganotti]

Amazing Conference !! :D

Thank you guys :)

[balin...@gmail.com]

A big 'thank you' should go to the organizers, I thoroughly enjoyed
the presentations as much as the parties ;), and the setting (Prague)
was fabulous, too!

Bálint

[qq]

T his was THE best conference i've attendet. And i've been to some
( but they weren't about ruby ).
N ote that the food was absolutely delicious -> above all also
practical. Very clever. ( I like chech people, they make good
food. )
T he atmosphere was awesome. It really felt like at home and therefore
relaxed.

The conference was pure ruby through it all. Nice, simple
yet powerful.

You can easily comprehend why the number of attendees is vastly
growing.

Karel thank you very much!

[Jiří Kubíček]

Hello,

thanks everybody for nice words about the conference.

It really was a hard work for us. We were only two in the core team
who did all the work.

Special thanks should go to:

my colleague Karel for doing whole communication with english speaking
attendees, sponsors and speakers, co-moderating the conference, doing
the beautiful website, ordering the bags, t-shirts and notebooks,
etc ...

my girlfriend Jana for prepairing the bags, being there, helping with
outgiving the conference bags, cleaning all after some dirty attendees
and for supporting me

Juergen for his help with selecting speekers, preparing talk schedule
and co-moderating the conference

Peter and Mariana for helping with preparing the bags, helping with
the registration, giving the bags and other very useful help.

Jan Kubr for programming the attendee registration form and other stuff.

Josef Slerka for communicating and negotiating with the university.

Vitek Burda for his car.

and of course special thanks to me for: establishing czechoslovakian
ruby users group as legal body, solving all the problems with paypal,
handling all financial stuff (budgeting, incoming and outgoing
payments), accounting/book-keeping, organizing registrations and
prepairing and personalising all the bags. buying drinks and water.
etc ...

And few volunteers:
- Sven Sushka for helping with carrying tables
- Petr Krontorad for carrying things
- Kyo and Pepe for helping with cleaning up
- Beam for helping to solve power problems

I am sorry if i missed someone in this list, but be sure to have my
thanks too.

Thanks also to all speakers. As I had no time to attend even one of
the talks on the conference (I was always outside or at the door),
please send your talk slides as soon as possible to allow me to know
your talks.

S pozdravem

Jiri KUBICEK

--
KRAXNET s.r.o. - www.kraxnet.cz
Kamenicka 26, 170 00 Praha 7
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[Adam Byrtek]

2008/4/2 qq <bostjan...@gmail.com>:

> N ote that the food was absolutely delicious -> above all also
> practical. Very clever. ( I like chech people, they make good
> food. )

By the way I was surprised by the fact that the girls serving food and
beverages were Polish :)

Regards,
Adam

[Thorben Schröder]

No matter where they are from, they were very kind! :)

Thanks to them for the friendly catering, too!

Thorben

[Adam Byrtek]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Thorben Schröder <still...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No matter where they are from, they were very kind! :)

And I could use my native tongue to get coffee :)

> Thanks to them for the friendly catering, too!

That's right!

[frank.sp...@gmail.com]

Hi everybody,

even though I had some problems (my car was towed) I really enjoyed
EURUKO. Thank you for organizing such a cool conference. I've been to
other, more professional (a.k.a. commercial) conferences and if I had
to choose I would pick EURUKO every time.

see you all next year,
Frank