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Once again, PDX.rb will be hosting an evening of wide-ranging talks about Ruby. This year the focus is on people doing strange things with Ruby. Strange, of course, is anything that’s just a little bit outside the usual. If you’ve created a new Ruby-based interface for hacking on your brand-new internet-enabled phone (rPhone anyone?) or composed your latest bit of metaprogramming magic, we’d love to hear about it.

We’ll be keeping the event open-ended and freeform. We’ll use the lightning-talk-inspired approach and give each presenter the opportunity to cram whatever they can into 10 minutes. Make it interesting and you might even get an extra minute or two. We’ve already selected 7 speakers, but there will be a few slots left open until the actual event.

Our speakers are:

• Greg Borenstein — programming Arduino boards with Ruby
• Lennon Day-Reynolds — Speaker’s Discretion
• Giles Bowkett — Creating programmatic MIDI music with Ruby
• John Lam — Running Ruby on the CLR
• Ola Bini — JRuby!
• Ian Dees — Radical Test Portability
• Luke Kanies — Using Racc to write a real Domain Specific Language
• You
• ... or possibly… YOU

This is all taking place Tuesday, July 24th (hey, that’s today!) at 7:30 pm. The location is Holocene (map), here in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

There will be plenty of Ruby fun going on and lots of socializing with fellow Rubyists. Last year, FOSCON II was overflowing. We’ve found a new venue to fit you all in, so why miss it? Oh yeah, did I mention the free pizza?