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From: Dawn Applegate <dapplegate@...>
Date: 28-Jun-2007 01:52
Subject: Forging Rails In Berlin: RailsConf Europe 2007 Program Unveiled
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For Immediate Release

For more information, contact:
Dawn Applegate
dapplegate@...
707-827-7111

Forging Rails In Berlin: RailsConf Europe 2007 Program Unveiled

Keynote presenters include David Heinemeier Hansson and Dave Thomas

Sebastopol, CA, 25 June 2007--RailsConf Europe, taking place 17-19
September in Berlin, is being co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and
O'Reilly Media, Inc. This three day event, held at the Maritim proArte
Hotel, is dedicated entirely to Ruby on Rails. The Ruby on Rails
development framework, only three years old, has gone from cult favorite
to major player in the web development world. By every measure--feature
richness, adoption, publications, developer reception--Rails is a
phenomenon, and one that's here to stay. At the 2006 sold-out event,
attendees convened from all over Europe and the world. Registration for
the 2007 conference is currently open.

RailsConf Europe 2007 will bring together hundreds of Rails practitioners

for presentations, tutorials, and camaraderie. Conference attendees will
include: Rails hackers, Rubyists, web developers, web-based entrepreneurs
and IT managers. RailsConf Europe will provide the time and place to
connect, contribute, and collaborate with the growing European Rails
community and beyond. The conference will discuss how European users are
applying the Rails framework in their projects and businesses--and how
they are achieving financial success.

The first day of the conference will consist of hands-on tutorials that
will inform and enlighten. Among the topics offered during Monday
tutorials will be A Half-day of Behavior-driven Development on Rails,
Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up in Europe, and Rails GIS
Hacks.

The schedule of speakers is growing daily and includes particularly
creative experts, industry leaders, and under-the-radar innovators
worldwide. Sessions will focus on successful business models, development
paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new
arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of
services and opportunities. Speakers and sessions are being added every
day--here's just a sampling:

-Teaching Rails at a University, Carsten Bormann, TZI Uni Bremen
-Building Webapps in Europe: Economy, Methodology and Tips,
Nicholas Paton, Bloogk
-Anchoring Trust: Rewriting DNS for the Semantic Network with Ruby
and Rails, Eleanor McHugh, Games with Brains, Romek Szcizesmiak

Networking opportunities will be plentiful, particularly during evening
events such as the Birds of a Feather (BOFs) sessions, during conference
breaks, and while mingling in the exhibit hall. In addition, the Berlin
Ruby User Group is hosting a Bratwurst on Rails dinner event for all
RailsConf Europe. Although the exhibit hall is still taking shape, there
is still room for last minute sponsors and exhibitors. Interested parties
may contact Yvonne Romaine at O'Reilly (contact info listed below).

Since last year's conference sold out, attendees are encouraged to
register early. In fact, register by 6 August and save up to 150€ (or
more):
http://www.railsconfeurope.com/pub/w/61/register.html

Additional Resources:

For complete conference details, visit:
http://www.railsconfeurope.com/

If you would like to stay up to date on the happenings around RailsConf
Europe 07 (conference news, speakers and activities) sign up for the
conference newsletter at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/nl/home#conferences

To see the most current list of speakers and the preliminary schedule, go
to:
http://www.railsconfeurope.com/pub/w/61/schedule.html

For a complete list of tutorials, please visit:
http://www.railsconfeurope.com/pub/w/61/tutorials.html

To apply for media credentials, visit:
http://www.railsconfeurope.com/pub/w/61/press.html

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at O'Reilly
conferences, contact Yvonne Romaine at 707-827-7198, or email her at:
yromaine@...

To become a media or community partner, email:
mediapartners@...

Upcoming O'Reilly events:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

-Ubuntu Live Conference, July 22-24, 2007 in Portland, OR
-OSCON, July 23-27, 2007 in Portland, OR
-Energy Innovation Conference, August 22-24, 2007 in San Francisco, CA
-RailsConf Europe, co-presented by Ruby Central Inc and O'Reilly Media
Inc.
17-19 September, 2007 in Berlin, Germany
-O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, March 3-6, 2008 in San Diego,
CA
-MySQL Conference & Expo, April 14-17, 2008 in Santa Clara, CA
-Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media
April 22-25 2008 in San Francisco, CA

About O'Reilly Media

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online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media
has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in
on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by
amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the
future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has
a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

O'Reilly conferences bring together forward-thinking business and
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O'Reilly is a registered trademark of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Other products
mentioned may be trademarks of their respective companies.

Ruby Central, Inc. is the parent organization of the annual International
Ruby and Rails Conferences and is a visible presence and point of contact
for corporate sponsors interested in supporting these conferences and
other Ruby activities. For more information, visit:
http://www.rubycentral.org/


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