caboose

Hey everyone! CabooseConf 09 is on again. For those of you who don’t know, we have been running a free anti-conference at the same time as the O’Reilly Railsconf behemoth. Last year, Chad and Gina approached me after the conference and asked if we would run it again this year, but under the banner of Railsconf itself. Keep your friends close, I guess ;)

I’m a big fan of going to conferences and attending the “hallway track”. So, this year it’s officially sanctioned.. Come to Vegas, network, hack, code, and don’t pay a cent. We have conference rooms staked out at the Railsconf hotel, and we’re doing our best to organize similar perks to last year (free energy drinks, etc.)

You do have to sign up at the O’Reilly “railsconf”:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/ site and get a badge. Did I mention it’s free? One thing you need to do – as usual – go write some open source code! No, you can’t use something you did two months ago. No, you can’t use some code on some PHP project. This is railsconf, so go show it like you mean it, and contribute something to rails. We won’t let you in unless you do. Seriously. (*Merb also accepted)

We hope to be hosting all the hackfests.. so bring your open source ruby codes.