Speakers, BBQ, & More!

We're excited to announce the Ruby Midwest speaker lineup! We had so many great submissions that we had to rethink our schedule to include more. Check out the Speakers page for details!

Registration is now open!

Get your two days of single track ruby goodness!

Ticket Price Ends
Early Bird $75 May 15
General Admission $125 June 30
Last Minute $175 July 15

Register HERE and check out the Travel & Venue info for hotel accommodations.

OMGWTFBBQ!

Kansas City has the best BBQ around and Intridea has invited you to have a taste. Check out the OMGWTFBBQ! website to RSVP for food, hacking, and good times!

Dates Set! July 16-17, 2010

Right in the middle of nowhere everything. Kansas City's growing Ruby community is excited to host its first regional conference!

Ruby Midwest is a two day, single track conference focused on the joy and productivity of Ruby, Rails, & JRuby.

Keynote Speakers

Check out the complete speaker list here!

Yehuda Katz
Yehuda Katz

Yehuda Katz is currently employed by Engine Yard , and works full time as a Core Team Member on the Rails project. He is the co-author of jQuery in Action and the upcoming Rails 3 in Action , and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice . He spends most of his time hacking on Rails, but also on other Ruby community projects, like Rubinius and Datamapper . And when the solution doesn't yet exist, he'll try his hand at creating one - as such, he's also created projects like Thor and DO.rb .

Chris Wanstrath
Chris Wanstrath

Chris Wanstrath is a George R R Martin fan who lives in San Francisco and cofounded GitHub. He's an active open source developer and speaker whose projects and talks can be found at

Sponsors

Intridea New Relic Chargify Integrum Calculated Combustion

Interested in sponsoring Ruby Midwest? Check out the sponsorship package here and get in touch.

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