The conference will be held at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Conference dates: April 3-4, 2009
- Proposal submission deadline: Feb 15, 2009
- Acceptance notification date: March 3: 2009
Your proposal should be emailed to papers@locosporrails.com by February 15,
2009.
Your presentation’s subject matter is very open but should of course be
something related to Ruby on Rails, or Ruby. Presentations should generally be
at an intermediate level; the audience will largely be interemediate-level
developers, with some newbies and some experts.
We will let you know if your proposal has been accepted by March 3, 2009.
Each presentation is allotted 45 minutes. Please allow roughly 10 minutes for
discussion at the end of the presentation, and 5 minutes at the beginning for
a brief introduction by the conference organizers. This leaves you with about
30 minutes actual presentation time.
We will provide a slide projector with VGA and DVI inputs and a microphone. If
you have a recent model Mac that has a mini- or micro- DVI port, please bring
an adapter just in case we are unable to provide one.
The conference will have roughly 100-150 attendees. During each non-keynote
talk talk there will be room available for a “lightning talk” or some other
self-organized activity for those attendees who are not interested in the main
talk. We are guessing 70-80% of the attendees will attend each talk, but this
is of course hard to predict. So plan on audience size of anywhere from 50-150
people.
You must agree to give your presentation under an Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Creative Commons license so that we may photograph, transcribe and/or film it, and upload any photos, transcripts or videos to share with the Ruby/Rails community. You are encouraged, but not required, to make your slides available under the same license.
- Free conference pass.
- You may bring one guest for free.
- Free dinner party for speakers, their guests, and the organizers after the conference.
- Your talk can not be just an advertisement for a commercial product.
- Unless otherwise arranged with the organizers, speakers are not reimbursed for their expenses.
- No speaker substitutions unless agreed upon with the conference organizers.
Keep in mind that the audience will be mostly non-native English speakers, and
that there will be no simultaneous interpretation to Spanish. The audience
will have good to excellent understanding of technical English, but may have
difficulty understanding puns, cultural references or obscure jokes. Depending
on where you are from (Americans from the east coast, this is for you), you
may need to speak a little more slowly than usual.
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