I can say with confidence that RubyFringe is the best tech I have ever attended, and possibly the most important one to boot. The presentations have gone beyond what you’d find at your typical tech conference: no product pitches disguised as seminars, no flavour-of-the-month technologies being hyped, but just good ideas that have a certain timeless quality to them, presented by offbeat people to an offbeat crowd. It’s events like this that make me glad I’m a geek and that I make stuff out of pure thought and caffeine every single day. This is more than a 9-to-5 workaday thing that pays the bills; this is our passion.
Simply put, this conference pulled down my brain’s pants and blew my mind.
Here’s a wide-angle photo, which is going to be known as the “We Are RubyFringe” shot:
Photo by Kieran Huggins.
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I’ve posted my notes from Day 1 over at my tech blog, Global Nerdy:
There’s more over here at the Unspace article, We Are RubyFringe.
I’ll post my Day 2 notes later on. I’ll also post a summary here — there was a lot of stuff at this conference that applies to more than just geek life, namely the bits about failure and eschewing the mainstream.