Foscon Starts today, 23rd July at Portland,Oregon.

FOSCON is a free, fun gathering of Ruby fans held during an evening of O’Reilly’s OSCON conference with cool presentations, food, discussions, and a live coding competition.

Anyone interested in Ruby is welcome here, whether you’re just curious or a seasoned pro. Portland Ruby brigade user group wants to share the joy of Ruby with you.

Presentation List:-

• IronRuby: John Lam
• Selectricity and RubyVote: Benjamin Mako Hill on Ruby voting machinery for the masses!
• Ruby performance: Brian Ford
• Hardware Hacking with Ruby Arduino: Gregory Borenstein
• Ruby++!…?: Markus Roberts on defining custom operators
• Five minutes with Selenium: Ian Dees
• Ruby culture: Audrey Eschright, Reid Beels and Igal Koshevoy
• Ruby business: David Abramowski from Morph on “10 steps to turn an idea into a business: You have an idea and the ability to write a RoR application. Now what do you do?”
• Ruby server automation: Igal Koshevoy
• Ruby on Rails profiling: M. Edward Borasky
• Live coding competition: Ruby on Rails, PHP Symfony, PHP Drupal, and GemStone/S Smalltalk Seasid

Hope, you have bookmarked this venue and presentation list.

Thanks