Rubyfuza

A South African Ruby conference

Thursday and Friday, 2nd & 3rd of February 2012

Welcome to Rubyfuza! The last conference, in February 2011, was an enormous success with 70 delegates in total over the two days, 16 talks excluding the lightning round which had 5 short talks, a cocktail party on the Thursday night, and a most excellent closing function with an African drumming session and food from around the continent. We hope to make this year's event even bigger and better.

The conference will be held in the beautiful city of Cape Town at the stellar Strand Tower Hotel on the 2nd & 3rd of February, 2012. This year, on Saturday the 4th we will follow the conference with a Coderetreat facilitated by Corey Haines!

We have some exciting speakers lined up, including:

Sven Fuchs

Open Source Life

Sven Fuchs, pronounced [sfɛn fʊks], is an experienced software developer and open-source enthusiast currently based in Berlin. While focusing on Ruby/Rails development for the last four years, he published a good number of Ruby and Rails projects, tools and libraries. Consistently amongst the top 30 on Rails-ranking sites, Sven is probably best known for leading the Ruby I18n project, the Ruby gem that is shipped with Rails to provide internationalization support. Together with Josh Kalderimis, he now leads the Travis CI project, an open-source continuous integration service for the Ruby community. The product will revolutionize the way you deal with testing your code.

Josh Kalderimis

Smash your app into pieces

Josh is a top 30 Ruby on Rails contributor and has been working with the framework since 2008. He maintains a bunch of open-source Ruby projects, including multi_json, linkedin, faraday_middleware and his own completeness-fu. He's also one of Amsterdam.rb's organizers, and an integral part of the core Travis-CI team.

Mark Bates

Far and Away (A Tour of Distributed Programming with Ruby)

Mark Bates is the author of the book "Distributed Programming with Ruby", published in 2009. Mark is currently writing a book on CoffeeScript for Addison-Wesley due out in early 2012. Mark is a leader in the Ruby community and runs a successful Ruby/Rails consultancy out of Boston, MA. Mark can be found at http://www.markbates.com, http://github.com/markbates, and http://twitter.com/markbates

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