RailsConf 2008: Call For Participation Open

For Immediate Release

For more information contact:
Dawn Applegate
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(707) 827-7111

RailsConf 2008 Seeking Participation from Rails Community
Call for participation is now open

Sebastopol, CA, October 29, 2007--RailsConf 2008 is returning to the
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, from May 29-June 1, 2008.
RailsConf, co-produced by Ruby Central, Inc. and O'Reilly Media, Inc.,
will gather over 1,600 attendees for four days of keynotes, sessions,
tutorials, panels, and events to explore the latest Rails developments.

RailsConf is the largest gathering of Rails programmers, web developers,
IT managers, entrepreneurs, and open source developers. An interactive
meeting ground for the most innovative and successful Rails experts, will
provide attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms,
and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to
the Web and Rails to take advantage of this new generation of services and
opportunities.

Over three years after its initial release, Rails continues to shake the
foundations of the web development world. With an ever-growing host of
stable applications in production, Rails 2.0 changes the focus from rapid
change and innovation to stabilization and maturity. Anticipating a
terrific line up for the 2008 event, conference chair Chad Fowler, Ruby
Central, said:

"We're putting the 2008 program together and expect it will be as robust
as last year's event but will encompass new areas of Rails development and
more case histories."

The program committee is actively seeking sessions and tutorial proposals
around some of the following topics:

-Time-saving developer productivity tips, tricks, and tools
-Patterns and best practices for developing maintainable Rails
applications
-Complex domain modeling with Active Record
-Rails development case studies
-Heterogeneous systems integration
-Real-world deployment and scaling
-Making the most out of new Rails features
-Gem and Plug-in highlights
-Extending Rails

At RailsConf 2008, attendees can expect more than just in-depth tutorial
and conference sessions. Included in the conference program will be Birds
of a Feather (BoFs) evening sessions, which provide face-to-face informal
meeting time for those interested in discussing the same topics, projects,
and concepts. 

In 2008, the RailsConf exhibit hall will expand into a larger space where
leading companies will offer demonstrations and product information
relating to Ruby on Rails programming. Exhibiting at the 2007 event were
FiveRuns, Sun Microsystems, ThoughtWorks, GotThingsDone, Engine Yard,
Adobe, CodeGear,  ELC Technologies, ActiveState, Amazon Web Services, Blue
Box Group, Creopolis, Powell's Books, Rails For All, Inc., and Saviance
Technologies Pvt.

The call for participation will be open until December 13, 2007. Early
registration for RailsConf will open in February of 2008. Press
registration will be open on that date. 

Learn more about RailsConf 2008 by visiting:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/rails/

If you'd like to submit a proposal for consideration at RailsConf 2008,
visit:
http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/cfp/6

If you'd like to stay up to date on information relating to RailsConf,
sign up for the conference newsletter:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/nl/home#conferences

If you have ideas about areas you'd like to see included at the
conference, 
send a note to: 
rails-idea@oreilly.com

For more information on sponsor and exhibitor opportunities at RailsConf,
contact: Yvonne Romaine (707) 827-7198, yromaine@oreilly.com

If you would like to discuss forming a media or promotional partnership
for RailsConf, or any other O'Reilly event, contact Avila Reese at (707)
827-7116 or mediapartners@oreilly.com

About Ruby Central

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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:

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