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Ru3y Manor - what you need to know on the day
Hi everyone,
Ru3y Manor is this Saturday (29th October)!
Schedule
You can see the full schedule below, or on Lanyrd. We’ve given each speaker a 30minute slot for their talk. There’s at least 10 minutes for questions between each talk and a couple of 15 minute breaks; one in the morning, one in the afternoon. The times above are “perfect”, but don’t assume that we’ll actually run to the 5-minute precision outlined. There’s plenty of wiggle room should things run over or under on the day.
We do aim to start at 10am sharp though, so please turn up on time.
“Registration”
Registration will be simple enough. We’re giving a list of all attendees to the security staff, who may ask you to sign in or tick you off that list (we’re not sure to be honest). They’ll direct you to the third floor where one of us will give you a name badge sticker and a wifi password. That’s it.
Keep your sticker safe as it’s probably how we’ll run the tab in the Aft3r Party.
Lunch & Breaks
We’ve left an hour and a half for lunch so you’ll have plenty of time for a sit down meal, should you so desire. If you just want a sandwich though we’re dedicating the last half hour of lunch for 5-minute lightning talks. We’ll have a list that you can sign up to on the day if you’re interested.
During the breaks, and throughout the day, you’ll be able to use the cafe in the foyer of the venue. We won’t be providing any drinks or nibbles during the conference itself. Although there will be money behind the bar at the Aft3r party.
Post-conference drinks
The pub for the Aft3r party is The Mason’s Arms on Devonshire Street. It does not do food (apart from crisps and nuts) - that’s why we’re starting at 19:30 to give you time to hunt out some dinner if you want it. Obviously the pub will be open so if you want to you can go straight there if you want, but we won’t release the cash-behind-the-bar until 19:30.
There are loads of great restaurants and fooderies around (try Charlotte Street!), so please do take the opportunity to have something.
Bringing your computer?
On the day, consider leaving your laptop at home. We’d rather you gave the speakers your full attention.
There will be wifi, but we can’t guarantee how effective it will be. You’ll all be given a unique username and password when you arrive.
Full Schedule
The schedule for the day is on lanyrd, but here it is again:
10:00 - 10:10: Welcome!
10:10 - 10:40: “Rails vs object-oriented design” by Tom Stuart
10:50 - 11:20: “Jruby on elephants” by Tim Cowlishaw
11:30 - 11:45: Morning break
11:45 - 12:15: “Is Eventmachine a worthy alternative to Node.js” by Andrew Nesbitt
12:25 - 12:55: “Programming With Nothing” by Tom Stuart
13:05 - 14:35: Lunch
14:35 - 15:05: “How hard can it be? — A refactoring battle story” by Jon Leighton
15:15 - 15:45: “The Joy of Text” by Sean O’Halpin
15:55 - 16:10: Afternoon break
16:10 - 16:40: “Don’t fear the lambda” by Paul Battley
16:50 - 17:20: “A random walk” by Ben Griffiths
17:30 - Thanks and good byes!
17:45 - Go get some dinner
19:30 - closing time: Aft3r Party at The Mason’s Arms
See you on Saturday!
- Murray, Tom, James
Selections end TODAY at NOON!
Hopefully you’ve all done this already, but if not, head over to vestibule and choose the proposals you’d like to see at Ru3y Manor on the 29th.
You MUST do this before noon today; at that time, we’ll freeze the selections, and reveal the results to the world.
As the schedule currently stands, there will be eight main presentations on the day, but this will all be explained later.
So - head to vestibule!
Ru3y Manor Tickets: Final Batch On Sale Now!
The final batch of tickets is on sale now. Go and get one!
To reiterate yesterday’s post: If your talk is chosen you get in free, but don’t rely on your talk being chosen as a way to get a ticket! Buy one now and we’ll refund you if you the community chooses to hear your talk.
What happens next
Ru3y Manor is only 23 days away!
Here’s what happens next:
- If you contributed to vestibule we sent you a twitter DM on Monday with a promo code that you can use to buy a ticket. If you haven’t used it do so soon, as…
- Tomorrow morning (Friday 7th) the remaining tickets will be available for anyone to buy without a promo code. There are 180 tickets in total, and at time of writing 116 have been sold, so there’s still plenty.
- If you haven’t already, you should sign into vestibule and choose the proposals you most want to see. Your selections will be used to choose the agenda.
- We’ll announce this agenda next Friday (the 14th) so that the proposers have plenty of time to write their proposals. Just like previous manors if your talk is chosen you get in free, but don’t rely on your talk being chosen as a way to get a ticket! Buy one now and we’ll refund you if you the community chooses to hear your talk.
- The proposers can still use vestibule before and after the agenda is announced to flesh out their proposal text into more concrete outlines and solicit more suggestions for exactly what people do and don’t want to hear from them.
- We’ll all meet on Saturday the 29th for an amazing day of Ruby.
Next set of tickets / Polish your proposals
The next batch of Ru3y Manor tickets will be available very soon, and as we have said, preference is going to be given to those who’ve contributed to the development of the day.
Contributing via Vestibule is trivial. It can be as simple as leaving a suggestion, or explaining your motivations. Your involvement is important all the way up to the 29th of October, and beyond, but it is particularly important right now.
After all, you don’t want to be a scamp for the rest of your life, do you?
Presenters: Polish your Proposals!
In the very near future we’re going to start selecting which presentations will be given on the day. Everyone is involved in this, and so it’s clearly important that you incorporated any relevant suggestions for your proposal soon. Hopefully most of you have been doing this already, but it never hurts to given them a final pass.
You don’t need to agree with every suggestion; in may cases it’s useful to disagree, because you can then explicitly say “no, I won’t be covering that aspect”, and that’s very useful information.
Finally, we know that some people who proposed can’t make it, and other proposals don’t actually have anyone who has stepped up to present them. If you have to pull out, please visit your proposal and click the “Withdraw” button at the bottom, to help streamline the selection process.
So, you have your orders; get to it!
Ru3y Manor Tickets: First Batch On Sale Now!
If you’re on the mailing list, you should know this already, but the first batch of tickets for Ru3y Manor are now on sale! Head over to the ticket site and get yours now.
We have no idea if these tickets will disappear quickly or not, but if they do and you don’t manage to get one, fear not. There will be more tickets available soon, and the very best way of ensuring that you get one is by getting involved and contributing to the day via Vestibule and the mailing list.
What is Ruby Manor?
In case you’re new around here, Ruby Manor is a one-day, zero-bullshit, fully-fledged conference about Ruby, the programming language.
It’s predicated on the belief that conferences don’t need a lot of the ceremony and cruft that they’ve acquired over the years. We don’t need swag. We don’t need fancy food. We don’t need grandiose keynote speakers. We don’t want to wonder why the ticket cost hundreds of pounds or dollars.
We just want to get together with like-minded people and share ideas.
…and “Vestibule”?
Vestibule is a tool to help us - the community - generate and prepare the contents of the day. Rather than an opaque Call For Proposals, we all develop and refine the conference programme in the open.
The idea is simple. You propose a presentation. Others will help you refine and focus it by making suggestions. You keep updating your proposal bearing those suggestions in mind, so that the presentation you give covers the most interesting and relevant topics for your audience.
Ru3y Manor costings
One of our points of principle in putting together Ruby Manor is that conferences should be as transparent as possible, from putting together the schedule to deciding how to spend the money.
With that latter point in mind, we’ve tidied up the Google Spreadsheet we use to calculate the total cost of running the ‘Manor, and therefore what price the tickets end up being, for your perusal and delectation! You can view and edit it here. That’s right - you can tweak the ticket price and number of estimated tickets sold to see how things might pan out.
It’s noted on the sheet, but we’ll repeat it here - we haven’t set the final ticket price yet. We’re just opening up the process so you can see how we’re going about doing it.
We still feel strongly about our goals, but Ruby Manor has always been about the community participation and more than just what we want from it. There is no wrong or right answer; we really want to know what you, individually, think. Your thoughts and ideas will directly influence what we personally will do with Ruby Manor.
Source: groups.google.com
Videos from Ruby Manor: Manor Harder are now available for your viewing pleasure!
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