Second Ruby and Rails devroom at FOSDEM 2009

Posted by Peter Vanbroekhoven on Jan 23, 2009

Just like last year, the Belgian Ruby User Group is organizing a Ruby and Rails developer’s room at Fosdem 2009 on Sunday 8 February. Fosdem, or the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting, is a non-commercial event organized by the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, for this community, and is devoted to bringing developers together and inspire the synergy that binds them. Fosdem has been attended in the past years by around 2000 FOSS enthusiasts and this year they can choose from a whopping 263 talks. And to top it off, Fosdem is absolutely free.

This year we have ten presentations scheduled for our devroom compared to last year’s four, and we are very excited about the program. The rooms are still too small and this year we were asked explicitly not to let the room become overcrowded. This blog post features a photo of last year’s Ruby and Rails devroom, but we still had lots of people turning back because they were simply unable to enter the room. Good news is that we have a room with a capacity of 74 seats compared to 48 last year, but you had better make sure you get a seat in time!