RubyShift is an independent non-profit annual tech conference with an accent on making new friends, being inspired, and having fun. This year we will be talking about Ruby, Clojure, JavaScript, NoSQL databases, messaging systems, scalability, and all things distributed.
Call for Papers
Speakers and schedule of the conference has not yet been announced. We invite you to share your thoughts with the audience and submit a proposal for a talk or a workshop.
We are very interested in talks and workshops on modern languages: Ruby, Clojure, JavaScript; Big Data/NoSQL: MongoDB, Riak, Redis; Concurrency and Distributed Systems: STM, eventual consistency, caching.
This year we introduce 30 minute sessions with 45 minute breaks to meet people, grab a bite, and relax a little bit. Workshops are not strictly time-limited, but try sticking to around 2 hours.
Location
This year's conference will take place in Kiev, Ukraine. At this time of the year it's sunny and warm here, so you don't need a coat. We're going to announce the venue and hotel recommendations soon, stay tuned!
Speakers
Alexey Vasiliev
To Be Announced
Alexey Vasiliev is a software engineer at Railsware in Kiev. He's developed such products, as: PopCornUA (android and iphone applications), MongodbLogger (logger for Rails), SmtRails (shared mustache templates for Rails), PIRO (the rocket for pivotal tracker account) and many others. Also Alexey is a creator of Open Source training manual for setting up and scaling of PostgreSQL in Russian.
Alvaro Videla
To Be Announced
Alvaro works for Liip AG in Switzerland as Software Developer. Before moving to Europe he used to work in Shanghai were he helped building one of Germany biggest dating websites. He co-authored the book "RabbitMQ in Action" for Manning Publishing. Some of his open source projects can be found here: http://github.com/videlalvaro. Apart from code related stuff he likes travelling with his wife, listening/playing music and reading books.
Nick Sutterer
Off The Tracks — Challenging The Rails Mindset
Nick Sutterer is proud to be a member of the Ruby open source community. His Cells and Apotomo projects have been bringing increased view modularity and event-driven programming to Rails for years. He has enjoyed attending, and speaking at, Ruby conferences around the world. Buy him a beer sometime, and with very little prompting, he will tell you why there should be no such thing as a double-render error, why you should not confuse your models with your resources, and how to play a mean bass in a punk rock band.
Tickets
This year we have two ticket categories: an Individual ticket for $65 and Supporter ticket for $250. For Supporter one we'll place your logo on the web site and will give you a personal thank you from our team.
We do our best to be closer to the open-source community. Please drop us an email if you contribute or involved in organization of a local group and we'll get you a discount or a free ticket.
Last but not least, we are going to transfer 10% of our ticket revenue to an open-source project of choice to appreciate their hard work. You'll be prompted to choose one from the list on checkout. Feel free to ping us at @rubyshift in case of questions.
