News
2012-05-13 : Platinum Sponsor - Funding Circle
Here is a word from our new Platinum Sponsor, Funding Circle.
Funding Circle is an online financial marketplace who are taking on the banks using the latest technology to disrupt a market worth in excess of £100bn. With no middlemen, banks or lengthy delays, we help businesses find fast finance, and investors get better returns by providing an open exchange with detailed real-time information, empowering our users to get the best deal possible. We are backed by Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and a series of prominent Angel Investors such as Charles Dunstone, Ed Wray and Jon Moulton (the founders of Carphone Warehouse, Betfair and Better Capital respectively).
Our stack is predominantly Ruby, Rails, Postgres and Nginx, all running on Linux - and yes, we’re hiring! So talk to us or visit our jobs page at http://www.fundingcircle.com/jobs.
2012-05-02 : Dave Thomas Charity joins the Charity Tutorial
Charity tutorial choices have been pretty tough so far. You had to choose between Advanced Rails Design and a User Experience Workshop. We are very sorry, but the choice just got tougher.
We are throwing Advanced Ruby with Pragmatic Dave Thomas into the mix. Your choice.
Incidentally, we are not going to be precious about your ticket choices. If you change your mind about your tutorial, let us know.
2012-04-24 : Bytemark Sponsorship and more tickets
We have just released our final batch of tickets; these were held back until we knew how many places we needed to reserve for speakers. Get them here, while they are still hot.
In other news, here is a word from our new Gold Sponsor, Bytemark.
Bytemark Hosting is the UK’s “geek hosting outfit of choice” because its programmer & network-engineer team have built it that way since 2002, with their own tools, software and technical expertise. They understand web applications and network infrastructure equally, and host names such as Bostik, dopplr.com and Britain’s largest mystery shopping company, Retail Eyes. Their hosting starts at only £15 per month and runs to multi-site managed setups for customers with the fussiest demands of reliability and failover.
2012-04-22 : Scalarium Gold Sponsor
And now for a word from Scalarium, our new Gold Sponsor.
Scalarium is an automation solution to manage clusters on Amazon EC2 and other cloud providers. Scalarium powers several high traffic sites and has customers around the globe. With Scalarium it is easy to deploy and manage Rails, Node.js, PHP, Java or Python or your custom stack in the cloud.
And by the way, we are hiring. See http://www.scalarium.com/jobs/.
2012-04-21 : Charity Tutorial Registration Open
The details of the Groupon Charity Day Tutorial are in, and it’s going to be a great one: “Advanced Rails Design: Use Fancy OO Techniques Without Turning Ruby into Java.
However, the Heavies are also running their UX workshop, so it is going to be a tough choice. Once you’ve made it, you should:
2012-03-26 : Platinum Sponsor - Hashrocket
We are excited to welcome back our old friends Hashrocket to The Scottish Ruby Conference, and this time as a Platinum sponser. Welcome back Rocketeers!
And now for a word from our sponsor.
Hashrocket is an industry-leading Ruby on Rails design & development shop based in sunny Jacksonville Beach, Florida with offices in Chicago as well. Our main offices overlook the ocean, and our Chicago offices are in the heart of downtown. In these lush accommodations, our team of top-notch designers & developers works with everyone from startups to established businesses to produce elegant, cutting-edge, user-centric web applications.
Plus, we’re hiring! If you’re a Ruby developer looking to grow your skills with a team of dedicated professionals, or a designer looking to build beautiful applications with an incredibly capable development team, you should get in touch with us. Visit hashrocket.com/jobs or follow @hashrocket on Twitter.
2012-02-14 : Charity Tutorial/ Heavies UX Workship
With more evidence that you should not miss our pre-conference Charity Day on Thursday 28 June, comes The Heavies with their UX for Developers workshop. Covering the entire day with a deep practical workshop, the only question becomes which workshop to attend?
More details on our charity workshops are here.
2012-02-13 : Gold Sponsor - Freeagent
We’re delighted to welcome back FreeAgent as a Gold Sponsor. And now for a word from our sponsor:
Most of you know FreeAgent, but for those who don’t we are a multi award-winning, online bookkeeping and accounting app for freelancers and small businesses.
And we’re hiring! FreeAgent is built using Ruby and Rails and we are on the look out for smart software engineers to work with us in Edinburgh. We have just moved to a shiny new office complete with high-end iMacs and Aeron chairs; we have regular hack weeks, catered lunches, a fully-stocked beer fridge and host ScotRUG in the office every month.
So if you’re interested in working with an amazing team of engineers, solving hard computer science problems on a fast-growing, large-scale web app then visit www.freeagent.com/jobs or follow @freeagent on Twitter.
If, like FreeAgent, you are interested in supporting The Scottish Ruby Conference, our sponsorship schedule (pdf) is here.
2012-02-10 : Charity Tutorial / Groupon Hackon Day
If you were planning to come to the conference for just the Friday and Saturday, then you’re doing it wrong: you should be here on Thursday 28 June too. We’re excited to announce the first event of the Thursday Charity Day: a Groupon Hackon Day.
The talented Groupon Engineering Team will be leading one of their famous Hackon Days, as seen at Ruby Mid West. Stay tuned for further details.
But that’s not all - we have some alternative workshops in the pipleline. And it is for a good cause: all money donated will go the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland.
2012-01-29 : Sold out
The main batch of tickets have sold out, but do not despair: we will release another (small) batch of tickets once the CFP is closed and the schedule has been prepared.
Another way to guarantee a place at this year’s Scottish Ruby Conference is to have a talk accepted. Our Call for Proposals is open, so start preparing your submissions here.
2012-01-19 19:00 : CFP open
The CFP is open until 23:59 GMT on March 8th 2012. You can submit here.
We are looking for presentations on a range of topics that would be of interest to Rubyists. While largely Ruby related, we have previously had presentations on topics ranging form Arduino Robot Submarines to career development.
Sessions should be a maximum of 45 minutes long, including Q&A. Finishing early is absolutely fine, but you will not be allowed to over-run. Budget for 30 minutes speaking and up to 15 minutes of discussion.
2012-01-19 01:00 : Videos
What with all the excitement of the new site, we forgot to put up a link to the previous year’s videos. You can find links in the about page.
2011-12-27 : Oh hai Brightbox
Happy that bit between Christmas and Hogmany everyone. Sales are ticking along: at the time of posting we have 38 standard tickets left. The Call For (session) Proposals will be opening early in the new year. Watch out for details.
Thanks again to Brightbox for providing website hosting again. This year we are on their new Cloud Service.
2011-11-23 15:00 : Registration is open
Registration is open. Click on tickets in the menu to register, or just click here. As mentioned earlier, the early-bird tickets are bit cheaper than the standard, so buy early for the best bargains.
- Very Early bird tickets will cost £180
- Early bird tickets will cost £205
- Standard tickets will cost £245
We have early-bird pricing because as the conference approaches we have bills to pay, and having cash upfront becomes very useful.
Buy tickets here.
2011-11-23 : Terms and conditions
By popular demand here are our rough ticket terms and conditions:-
Transferability
We do not mind at all if you can not make the event and transfer your ticket to someone else. Do tell us, though (conference [at] scottishrubyconference.com).
It is normal to accept what you paid for the ticket in exchange, but that is between you. The google group is a good place to arrange these exchanges.
Refunds
We do not refund tickets as a matter of course. If you are really stuck, can’t sell the ticket, and it still a while until the conference then get in touch and we will see what we can do.
Maximum tickets per order
The maximum tickets per order on the Early Bird family of tickets is four.
Speakers
Speakers don’t pay. If you have bought a ticket and are then chosen to speak then you get refunded.
2011-11-16 11:50 : Registration (finally)
Registation for the 2012 conference will open on Wednesday 23 November at 15:00 GMT. The early-bird tickets are bit cheaper than the standard, so buy early for the best bargains.
- Very Early bird tickets will cost £180
- Early bird tickets will cost £205
- Standard tickets will cost £245
Ticket price includes lunch, snacks and drinks, breakfast on the Saturday, and entry to our AWESOME after-conference party on the Saturday. Once more the party, amongst other things, will feature the live music of Zoe Keating
The Call for Proposals will open during the next couple of weeks. (Ok that’s the opposite order of events that we promised - our bad.) If you buy a ticket now, and you are accepted as a speaker then we will refund your ticket.
We will be running some kind of charity event on Thursday 28 June. Stay tuned for details.
2011-10-12 : Coming Soon - CFP and Registration
We have been hinting about it for a while, but CFP and registation is just around the corner. In the next couple of weeks, we will be all set to receive the proposals for sessions and shortly afterwards we will open ticket sales.
Stay tuned.
2011-10-12 : New Site
Welcome to the new Scottish Ruby Conference site launched for the 2012 conference. Take a look around. Over the next few weeks we will bet tweaking the content, adding more pages, and design.
As usual the conference will be held over a Friday and Saturday in Edinburgh, at The Royal College of Physicians and there will be a charity event the the previous day. This year, though, we will be in June (29,30) and we have three, count them, three keynotes lined up:
- Dave Thomas, aka Pragmatic Dave, The Pragmatic Programmer
- Aaron Patterson, aka Tender Love, the only person on both Ruby and Rails core team, prolific open-source contributer, and fashion guru.
- Mike Lee, aka The World’s Toughest Programmer, citizen of Appsterdam
