RailsConf 2006: June 22-25, Chicago
Posted by David November 27, 2005 @ 05:49 PM
The long-rumoured RailsConf is a reality. We’ve just launched the website and finally announced the dates and place. It’s going down in the lovely Chicago Summer on June 22nd through 25th. There are a lot of details yet to be determined, but Dave Thomas and myself are already lined up to keynote.
Further details will soon trickle in. Such as how to propose a talk and naturally how to sign up for the event. We’re most likely going to cap the attendance to a hard 400. So if you don’t want to miss RailsConf like a lot of people missed RubyConf (which was capped at 200), you’d probably do be well-advised to stay alert on the opening of registrations.
Expect the registration fee to be around $350-400. So if you need to start saving, do that.
Any chance that this conference could be done in OpenSpace? I’d really like to get together with other railers … AND ever since I attended my first OpenSpace conference, I’ve been pretty reluctant to go back to the legacy of the present-from-the-pulpit conference style.
great site, who’s responsible?
pedro said “great site, who’s responsible?”
Sam Stephenson did the design for the site
$400 seems steep after registering for SXSW for only $250..
Either way, I’ll be there. Sounds like a great time!
The registration fee seems a bit too high for the average programmer. A suggestion: Have companies sponsor the event and pass the cost on to them.
holy sh*t!!! $400 for what?! does that price include the hotel and meals? or did David mean 400 Danish krones?
$400 includes a job offer in a location of your choice :)
$400 doesn’t seem bad at all. Its 4 days of conference. That’s $100 a day and considering that it’ll be 6-8 hours long, that’s only about $12-16 an hour for professional advice. A bargain if you ask me.
Consider the cap of 400 people at $400 a person. That’s only $160,000 to put on a 4 day conference at a hotel and pay for all the speaker/instructors expenses?
Seriously, compare that with the O’Reilly conferences that range anywhere from $1,500 – $2,000. $400 ain’t that bad.
Is there going to be beer and strippers?
Smigley asked, “Is there going to be beer and strippers?”
I’m afraid the latter depends on the former and, I’m also afraid it’s not necessarily a good thing…
Nice site, Ruby on Rails really seems to have a lot of potential. I’ll probably be interested in participating in this conference and it will be interesting to hear what you guys have to say.
Strippers +1
I hope you can reconsider 400, with cost of flight and lodging for 4 days it will be a total 1000-1500 for the trip (if not more).
also, just got an email form oreilly, they have a conference coming up that is $350 at highest rate, which is still cheaper than this one
“class << self” haha! Good one! :D
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rubyconf was $125-cough$400 for a 4-day technology conference is a good deal. We just had a 3-day Java conference here in Seattle for $700, and I thought THAT was a pretty good deal. These things cost money.
If it was closer I’d happily put up the $400 for the opportunity to go.