RailsConf coming...
Wednesday morning I'm making the four-hour drive back to Chicago (I'm at my family's home outside Detroit right now) so I can be in town for RailsConf.
Apart from the amazing first Techdirt Greenhouse (which Maurice and I had the wonderful opportunity to present at), I haven't really ever experienced any large-scale tech conferences. So, I'm very excited to check out what all the fuss is about (good and bad). I'm also really excited that it's about Ruby on Rails, the red-hot web framework which I know all about (thank you, Maurice) but don't personally do much actual programming in. It'll be interesting to be a "semi-outsider" at this conference.
I'm also really excited that the conference is happening in Chicago -- my home for the last four years (while studying at The University of Chicago). If it were being held anywhere else, I'd almost certainly not be going. Chicago is an amazing city and one where I'd love to see more tech-focused startups base themselves. There may not be an extreme amount of talent currently based in Chicago, but there's certainly enough great colleges in and around the area that finding some talent shouldn't be too hard (read: UChicago, Northwestern, UIUC, Michigan, even as far as Case Western or Carnegie Mellon which are further, but still much closer to Chicago than to Silicon Valley).
I'd love to meet up with anyone who is attending this conference. I'll be there Thursday for the hacking session (probably just working on Openomy code) so if anyone wants to meet up, either email me or call my cell phone: 248.819.7586.
Tags: RailsConf, Ruby On Rails, Rails, Ruby, Web 2.0
Apart from the amazing first Techdirt Greenhouse (which Maurice and I had the wonderful opportunity to present at), I haven't really ever experienced any large-scale tech conferences. So, I'm very excited to check out what all the fuss is about (good and bad). I'm also really excited that it's about Ruby on Rails, the red-hot web framework which I know all about (thank you, Maurice) but don't personally do much actual programming in. It'll be interesting to be a "semi-outsider" at this conference.
I'm also really excited that the conference is happening in Chicago -- my home for the last four years (while studying at The University of Chicago). If it were being held anywhere else, I'd almost certainly not be going. Chicago is an amazing city and one where I'd love to see more tech-focused startups base themselves. There may not be an extreme amount of talent currently based in Chicago, but there's certainly enough great colleges in and around the area that finding some talent shouldn't be too hard (read: UChicago, Northwestern, UIUC, Michigan, even as far as Case Western or Carnegie Mellon which are further, but still much closer to Chicago than to Silicon Valley).
I'd love to meet up with anyone who is attending this conference. I'll be there Thursday for the hacking session (probably just working on Openomy code) so if anyone wants to meet up, either email me or call my cell phone: 248.819.7586.
Tags: RailsConf, Ruby On Rails, Rails, Ruby, Web 2.0
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