| **What:** |FOSCON is a free, fun gathering of Ruby fans held during an evening of O'Reilly's OSCON conference with cool presentations, food, discussions, and a live coding competition.|
| **Who:**|Anyone interested in Ruby, whether you're just curious or a seasoned pro.|
| **Where:**|CubeSpace, Portland, Oregon near the Oregon Convention Center ([[venue|directions]]).|
| **When:**|Wednesday, July 23, 2008 from 6pm-9pm.|
| **Why:**|The [[http://pdxruby.org/|Portland Ruby Brigade]] user group wants to share the joy of Ruby with you.|
===== Presentations =====
* **IronRuby:** John Lam
* **Ruby performance:** Brian Ford
* **Hardware Hacking with Ruby Arduino:** Gregory Borenstein
* **Ruby++!...?:** Markus Roberts on defining [[http://www.reality.com/roberts/markus/software/ruby/free_form_operators/|custom operators]]
* **Five minutes with Selenium:** Ian Dees, author of [[http://www.pragprog.com/titles/idgtr/scripted-gui-testing-with-ruby|"Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby"]]
* **Ruby culture:** Audrey Eschright, Reid Beels and Igal Koshevoy of [[http://calagator.org/|Calagator]]
* **Ruby business:** David Abramowski from Morph on "10 steps to turn an idea into a business: You have an idea and the ability to write a RoR application. Now what do you do?"
* **Instrumenting Rails:** Bill Kayser of [[http://newrelic.com/|NewRelic]]
* **Ruby server automation:** Igal Koshevoy on [[http://automateit.org/|AutomateIt]]
* **Ruby on Rails profiling:** M. Edward Borasky on applying [[http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/about/|Linux OProfile]]
* **Ruby web development**: [[http://johnlabovitz.com/|John Labovitz]] on [[http://gossamer.rubyforge.org/|Gossamer]], a microframework to spin websites out of distributed, lightweight, ephemeral resources
* **Live coding competition:** Ruby on Rails, PHP Symfony, PHP Drupal, and GemStone/S Smalltalk Seaside ([[competition|details]])
* //... and your presentation here!//
===== Schedule =====
Preliminary schedule:
* 6pm Food, drinks and socializing
* 6:30pm Intros and sponsors
* 6:45pm Presentations
* 8:00pm Live coding competition
* 9pm exit(0)
===== Getting There =====
CubeSpace is right down the road from the Convention Center ([[venue|directions]]). You can [[http://rubyurl.com/8sIs|walk there]] in about 15 minutes, catch the [[http://trimet.org/schedules/r006.htm|#6 bus]] for $1.75 (exact change unless you want to lose that extra quarter), or...
We'll be running the **FOSCON Chuck Wagon** from the Convention Center entrance (the one closest to the OSCON session rooms) from 5:45 to 6:30. Look for a Honda minivan with the official FOSCON sign. Accept no substitutes!
===== Present at FOSCON =====
We're looking for presenters to share the excitement and value of Ruby. We'll give you 5 to 15 minutes to show off your best Ruby-related creations, demos, and cultural discoveries. Please [[contact|contact us]] with your ideas as soon as possible.
===== Sponsor FOSCON =====
Thanks to our wonderful sponsors, we've met our funding goals. Please visit their websites from the sponsors banner to learn more about their offerings.
===== Organize FOSCON =====
We need help [[planning|organizing the event]], please [[contact|contact us]] if you can assist.
===== Questions? =====
Drop us a [[contact|line]], or come by our OSCON booth (#814) in the Expo Hall on Tuesday or Wednesday.