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...have more (and better!) presentations, including a keynote presentation by the person who IMO really started all the fuss with Ruby and Rails, Dave Thomas. We also have a bunch of quality speakers including Jim Weirich, Brian Sam-Bodden, Joe O''Brien, Jeremy McAnally, Gregg Pollack, Glenn Vanderburg, Neal Ford, Andrea O.K.Wright, Jeff Barr, Kyle Banker, Corey Donohoe, Nick Sieger, Nathanial Talbott, Jon Larkowski, Aman Gupta, David Bock, and Joe Damato. And we have lots of great local speakers, like Paul Barry, Dave Bock, Jeff Casimir, and Russ Olsen. The topics are great, too. They stretch f...

...r we want to build on that momentum -- with lots of Rails goodness, of course, but also showcasing the many other cool things that people are doing with Ruby. Please submit your proposals for talks and tutorials. Thanks! The OSCON Ruby Track committee: Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, and Glenn Vanderburg The CFP: OSCON 2006: Opening Innovation Save the date for the 8th annual O''Reilly Open Source Convention, happening July 24-28, 2006 at the Oregon Convention Center in beautiful Portland, Oregon. The O''Reilly Open Source Convention is where coders, sysadmins, entreprene...

It seems like everyone now has a RoR type framework: Perl: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ PHP: http://cakephp.org/ Python: http://www.django.com ASP.NET: http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/Main_Page etc., etc. Has a revolution begun with the birth of these "Web 2.0" frameworks? Its going to be interesting when the tech media begins its mass hype like it did SOAP, XML, etc. a

I''ve been working with rails for a while now. Rails is the second web framework I''ve tried. It blows the doors off catalyst (perl''s best framework). I even just wrote my first plugin (broomstick). Ruby''s ability to meta-program blew me away with it''s ease of use. I''ve been so impressed with the helpers that rails uses to make a lot of