John Lam on Software

MVP Summit Ruby Meetup

OK. So here’s the scoop. 2pm at the International Meeting Place (see map).

I’m going to be at the Convention Center from around 1:30 onwards. There are a lot of central public meeting places at the convention center. From where I sit at my desk this morning, it looks like the “International Meeting Place” on the second floor will do just fine:

I’ll hang out there and I’ll be happy to demo / talk about IronRuby, OpenSource and whatever else *you* want to talk about.

Follow me on twitter (john_lam) if you want up to the minute updates on where we’ll be just in case this location doesn’t work out.

I’ll be giving talks on Ruby in both the C# and VB tracks. Right now it looks like 10:30AM and 12:30pm – check your schedules to make sure – the second talk’s time slot looks fishy to me.

BTW, for those of you who are reading this who don’t know what an MVP Summit is, it’s an event where we fly put up in hotels and feed some of our closest supporters to Redmond for a week-long tech love-fest. This is an awesome event since we get a chance to give back to the folks who help us do our jobs here at Microsoft.

Nominate Us for Open Spaces Sessions at MS MVP Summit

I have a simple request for you if you are:

• an MVP (MS Most Valuable Professional)
• are attending the MVP Summit in Redmond in April
• want to talk about IronRuby *or* dynamic languages in Silverlight in an ‘Open Spaces’ format

Please go ahead and nominate us for one or both of these sessions and I’ll show up along with Jimmy Schementi to discuss at the MVP summit. Take advantage of the Open Spaces format – you get to control the agenda!

BTW- please leave a comment here if you want to nominate so that we’ll be sure to show up then!

Update: Apparently the folks running the “Open Spaces” event at the MVP Summit want to exercise central command and control over the event, quite unlike this definition of a BarCamp from Wikipedia:

“The procedural framework consists of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site, typically using white boards or paper taped to the wall. This has been dubbed, with another play on words, The Open Grid approach.”

Apparently nominations are now closed, so we won’t be there to participate, sorry.

Update 2: OK. So we’re going to stick it to the man and take matters into our own hands. Follow me on twitter, and we’ll figure out a place to do our own Ruby meetup at the MVP summit.