St. Louis Ruby Conf date discussion

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Robert Rouse

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Feb 17, 2012, 10:19:59 AM2/17/12
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Does anyone have any specific date suggestions in mind? We want to
avoid clashing with higher profile conferences where we can. For
example, RailsConf 2012 is on April 23rd.

We need to have about a month of RFP time so we can hopefully get some
good speakers in. Peter Cooper has nicely agreed to add our conference
to Ruby Weekly so we'll get additional exposure when it's time.
Hopefully I can convince Jason and Peter to mention it on The Ruby
Show and get the Ruby Rogues to mention it as well.

I was thinking perhaps some time in May or June.

Thanks guys

Chris Oliver

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Feb 17, 2012, 10:27:11 AM2/17/12
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Definitely agree with the May or June schedule. Looks like most of the other Ruby related conferences are out of the country towards that time of year: http://lanyrd.com/topics/ruby/

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jason white

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Feb 17, 2012, 10:29:01 AM2/17/12
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I'm thinking June would be better, it will give us more time to get everything in place.

Jeff Barczewski

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Feb 17, 2012, 10:45:47 AM2/17/12
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You can also check the general ruby conf organizer calendar here, just so you know what else is going on at same time. (also could lose some potential speakers if they are previously engaged elsewhere).

PS. It would probably be good to join the regional ruby conf organizer group too. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/regional-rubyconf-organizers


Here is a snapshot of the current calendar

2012 Conference Schedule

Goal: List Schedule of Various Conferences in 2012.

 

Disclaimer: Just because a weekend is taken it does not mean you can't schedule a conference on the same weekend.



Scheduled

mm/dd - mm/dd (Fri-Sat): <conference name> (<location>) [Status: Tentative:Confirmed]

01/13 - 01/16 (Fri-Mon): Rails Camp X (Adelaide, Australia) [Confirmed]

02/02 - 02/04 (Th-Sat): LA Ruby Conference [CONFIRMED]

02/10 - 02/13 (Fri-Mon): Rails Camp 2 (New Zealand) [Confirmed]

03/01 - 03/02 (Fri-Sat): Ruby on Ales [CONFIRMED]

03/10 - 03/11 (Sat-Sun): wroc_love.rb (Wroclaw, Poland) [CONFIRMED]

03/15 - 03/17 (Thu-Sat): MountainWest RubyConf 2012 [CONFIRMED]

03/23 - 03/24 (Fri-Sat): RubyNation (DC) [CONFIRMED]

04/23 - 04/25 (Mon-Wed): RailsConf (Austin) [CONFIRMED]

05/21 - 05/23 (Mon-Wed): JRubyConf (Minneapolis) [CONFIRMED]

06/15 - 06/16 (Fri-Sat): Nordic Ruby (Stockholm, Sweden) [CONFIRMED]

06/23 - 06/23 (Sat): Gotham Ruby Conference (New York, NY) [CONFIRMED]

06/29 - 06/30 (Fri-Sat): Scottish Ruby Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Confirmed]

08/03 - 08/04 (Fri-Sat): Cascadia Ruby (Seattle, WA) [TENTATIVE]

08/03 - 08/04 (Fri-Sat): Steel City Ruby Conference (Pittsburgh, PA) [CONFIRMED]

08/09 - 08/11 (Thu-Sat): Lone Star Ruby Conference [CONFIRMED] - [DON'T TREAD ON ME]

08/23 - 08/25 (Thu-Sat): Madison Ruby Conference [CONFIRMED]
09/07 - 09/07 (Thu-Fri): Windy City Rails (Chicago, IL) [from their website as of 2/2012]

09/14 - 09/15 (Fri-Sat): Golden Gate RubyConf [TENTATIVE]

09/19 - 09/21 (Wed-Fri): Rocky Mountain Ruby [CONFIRMED]

09/20 - 09/21 (Thu-Fri): Frozen Rails [TENTATIVE]

09/22 - 09/23 (Sat-Sun): Ruby DCamp [TENTATIVE]
09/23 - 09/25 (Sun-Tue): Strange Loop (St. Louis) [Confirmed]
09/27 - 09/28 (Thu-Fri): Ruby|Web Conference 2012 [TENTATIVE]
10/08 - 10/09 (Mon-Tues): Aloha Ruby Conf (Honolulu, HI) [Confirmed]
10/26 - 10/27 (Fri-Sat): Ruby Midwest (Kansas City, MO) [TENTATIVE]
11/02 - 11/03 (Fri-Sat): SunnyConf 2012 (Scottsdale, AZ) [TENTATIVE] 
11/09 - 11/10 (Fri-Sat): RubyConf Uruguay 2012 (Montevideo, Uruguay) [TENTATIVE]


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Amos King

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Feb 17, 2012, 11:24:51 AM2/17/12
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I would suggest July or August. Maybe even next year. Give yourself time. Why don't we get together and talk about it at coffee and code next week.

Robert Rouse

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Feb 17, 2012, 11:35:52 AM2/17/12
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I don't think there's a need to wait a year honestly. Pushing it to
July might be fine though.

On Feb 17, 10:24 am, Amos King <amos.l.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would suggest July or August. Maybe even next year. Give yourself time.
> Why don't we get together and talk about it at coffee and code next week.

Matthew Follett

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Feb 17, 2012, 11:44:46 AM2/17/12
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I agree that it should probably be pushed out a bit.

I also agree it'd really be better to setup a meeting and find out how much time each person is willing to dedicate to the cause before you start setting deadlines.

~Matt

L. V. Lammert

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Feb 17, 2012, 11:46:01 AM2/17/12
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Matthew Follett wrote:

> I agree that it should probably be pushed out a bit.
>

It might be worthwhile to settle on two or three primary speakers and let
THEM propose a time whey they would be available?

Lee

Michael Bishop

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Feb 17, 2012, 11:59:15 AM2/17/12
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Camel : cam·el /ˈkaməl/
Noun:
• A large, long-necked ungulate mammal (genus Camelus) of arid country, with long slender legs, broad cushioned feet, and either one or...
• A horse designed by committee 

Someone just needs to decide to do it, and then do it. Don't wait for everyones buy in. 

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jason white

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Feb 17, 2012, 12:02:06 PM2/17/12
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is the next meeting this coming Monday?

Michael Bishop

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Feb 17, 2012, 12:03:16 PM2/17/12
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I don't know that it has officially been rescheduled. 

Please let me know ASAP if you guys want to get together. 

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Robert Rouse

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Feb 17, 2012, 1:11:39 PM2/17/12
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Hah. I feel I won't be as successful if I don't take a little
feedback.

On Feb 17, 10:59 am, Michael Bishop <m...@theablefew.com> wrote:
> Camel : cam·el /ˈkaməl/
> Noun:
>         • A large, long-necked ungulate mammal (genus Camelus) of arid country, with long slender legs, broad cushioned feet, and either one or...
>         • A horse designed by committee
>
> Someone just needs to decide to do it, and then do it. Don't wait for everyones buy in.
>
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>
> Michael Bishop
> Principal | TheAbleFew.com
>
> St. Louis:  314.537.6723
> Indianapolis: 317.572.7083
>
> twitter.com/ablemike
> m...@theablefew.com

Amos King

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Feb 17, 2012, 1:41:35 PM2/17/12
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I'll just do it.

Robert Rouse

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Feb 17, 2012, 2:01:57 PM2/17/12
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You'll do what exactly?

On Feb 17, 12:41 pm, Amos King <amos.l.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll just do it.
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