Kisko Labs is Organizing Finland's First International Ruby on Rails Conference
Helsinki, Finland, February 10, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Introduction
Frozen Rails is a high calibre Ruby on Rails conference that will be held on the 7th of May 2010 at the Sokos Hotel Presidentti in the centre of Helsinki. Attendees of Frozen Rails will see presentations from internationally renowned speakers from the US, Finland, and the rest of Europe. This is the first time that an international Rails conference is being organised in Finland.
The Frozen Rails conference was originally conceived in the minds of Joao Carlos Cardoso, Matias Korhonen, and Nur Sah Ketene. Joao, Matias, and Nur are students at the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland. Together they run the university's Linux club, HHLinuxClub. Joao hails from Portugal, Matias is a native Finn, and Nur is from Turkey.
The sole reason for organising Frozen Rails was a passion for Rails and for open source in general. The original idea was to organise a inexpensive, free conference but now we have four speakers from the US and three from Europe who will all be speaking in a 370 seat auditorium.
Frozen Rails is being organised by the HHLinuxClub in cooperation with Kisko Labs. Kisko Labs is a small web development company based in Helsinki which specialises in Rails development.
Speakers
Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, and lead developer of the Merb project. He is a member of the jQuery Core Team, and a core contributor to DataMapper. He contributes to many open source projects, like Rubinius and Johnson, and works on some he created himself, like Thor. Yehuda works for Engine Yard, a Ruby on Rails hosting provider based in San Francisco, California.
Chris Wanstrath is a co-founder of GitHub and an Isaac Asimov fan. He lives in San Francisco, never has enough time to work on his own open source projects, and tweets as defunkt.
Jarkko Laine was one of the first Rails evangelists in Europe and is a freelance web/software developer. He co-authored 'Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce' together with Christian Hellsten and wrote the 'Unonstrusive Prototype' eBook for PeepCode.
Jonathan Weiss is a partner and consultant at Peritor in Berlin, Germany. Apart from working on Scalarium, an EC2 management platform that automates provisioning and deployment, he contributes to Rails and Capistrano. He is the creator of the Open Source deployment tool Webistrano.
Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java and Python he finally found Ruby. He now spends his time in-between eating Cucumbers working at Songkick.com.
Mike Dirolf is a Software Engineer at 10gen, where he works on the MongoDB project. He mainly works on client drivers for Python and Ruby, but also takes time out to talk about MongoDB - he has presented at EuroPython, Strange Loop Conf, RubyEnRails, RuPy and RubyConf as well as at meet-up groups in New York City, London, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. Mike received a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. Born in Albany NY, Mike currently resides in New York City.
Nizar Jouini is working as a Project Manager at Dodreams. When Nizar first joined Dodreams he thought that he'd be working on yet another Rails project but instead he found himself in the crazy world of MMO games. Nizar will be giving a flash note at Frozen Rails.
Links
Frozen Rails: http://www.frozenrails.eu
Kisko Labs: http://www.kiskolabs.com
HHLinuxClub: http://www.hhlinuxclub.org
Haaga-Helia UAS: http://www.haaga-helia.fi/en
Background Information
Ruby is a dynamic, open source, object oriented programming language. Ruby is one of the few programming languages in mainstream use that has not originated from a Western country. Ruby was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan in the mid-1990s. Ruby was first publicly released in 1995.
The TIOBE Programming Community index ranks Ruby as the 10th most popular language (January 2010).
Ruby on Rails (‘Rails’ or ‘RoR’ for short) is an open source web development framework for the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails is intended to be used for rapid application development using Agile development methodologies.
Ruby on Rails was extracted from 37signals' Basecamp, a project management tool, by David Heinemeier Hansson and was released as open source in July 2004. Ruby on Rails has been shipped with Apple's OS X since v10.5 ("Leopard"), which was released in 2007.
Ruby on Rails has been used to create several high profile, well known web services, including Twitter, Basecamp, Hulu, and Github.
"Rails", "Ruby on Rails", and the Rails logo are registered trademarks of David Heinemeier Hansson. Rails is released under the MIT license. Ruby under the Ruby License.
Background links
Ruby language: http://www.ruby-lang.org
Wikipedia on Ruby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29
The TIOBE index: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org
The Ruby on Rails white paper: http://infoether.com/RubyRailsEcosystemFall2009.pdf
Wikipedia on Rails: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails
Sites built using Ruby on Rails
Twitter: http://twitter.com
Basecamp: http://basecamphq.com
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com
GitHub: http://github.com
MTV3 funnel: http://linkit.mtv3.fi
ArcticIndex: http://www.arcticindex.com
Further Information
Matias Korhonen
matias@kiskolabs.com
+358 50 4957476
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Frozen Rails is a high calibre Ruby on Rails conference that will be held on the 7th of May 2010 at the Sokos Hotel Presidentti in the centre of Helsinki. Attendees of Frozen Rails will see presentations from internationally renowned speakers from the US, Finland, and the rest of Europe. This is the first time that an international Rails conference is being organised in Finland.
The Frozen Rails conference was originally conceived in the minds of Joao Carlos Cardoso, Matias Korhonen, and Nur Sah Ketene. Joao, Matias, and Nur are students at the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland. Together they run the university's Linux club, HHLinuxClub. Joao hails from Portugal, Matias is a native Finn, and Nur is from Turkey.
The sole reason for organising Frozen Rails was a passion for Rails and for open source in general. The original idea was to organise a inexpensive, free conference but now we have four speakers from the US and three from Europe who will all be speaking in a 370 seat auditorium.
Frozen Rails is being organised by the HHLinuxClub in cooperation with Kisko Labs. Kisko Labs is a small web development company based in Helsinki which specialises in Rails development.
Speakers
Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, and lead developer of the Merb project. He is a member of the jQuery Core Team, and a core contributor to DataMapper. He contributes to many open source projects, like Rubinius and Johnson, and works on some he created himself, like Thor. Yehuda works for Engine Yard, a Ruby on Rails hosting provider based in San Francisco, California.
Chris Wanstrath is a co-founder of GitHub and an Isaac Asimov fan. He lives in San Francisco, never has enough time to work on his own open source projects, and tweets as defunkt.
Jarkko Laine was one of the first Rails evangelists in Europe and is a freelance web/software developer. He co-authored 'Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce' together with Christian Hellsten and wrote the 'Unonstrusive Prototype' eBook for PeepCode.
Jonathan Weiss is a partner and consultant at Peritor in Berlin, Germany. Apart from working on Scalarium, an EC2 management platform that automates provisioning and deployment, he contributes to Rails and Capistrano. He is the creator of the Open Source deployment tool Webistrano.
Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java and Python he finally found Ruby. He now spends his time in-between eating Cucumbers working at Songkick.com.
Mike Dirolf is a Software Engineer at 10gen, where he works on the MongoDB project. He mainly works on client drivers for Python and Ruby, but also takes time out to talk about MongoDB - he has presented at EuroPython, Strange Loop Conf, RubyEnRails, RuPy and RubyConf as well as at meet-up groups in New York City, London, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. Mike received a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. Born in Albany NY, Mike currently resides in New York City.
Nizar Jouini is working as a Project Manager at Dodreams. When Nizar first joined Dodreams he thought that he'd be working on yet another Rails project but instead he found himself in the crazy world of MMO games. Nizar will be giving a flash note at Frozen Rails.
Links
Frozen Rails: http://www.frozenrails.eu
Kisko Labs: http://www.kiskolabs.com
HHLinuxClub: http://www.hhlinuxclub.org
Haaga-Helia UAS: http://www.haaga-helia.fi/en
Background Information
Ruby is a dynamic, open source, object oriented programming language. Ruby is one of the few programming languages in mainstream use that has not originated from a Western country. Ruby was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan in the mid-1990s. Ruby was first publicly released in 1995.
The TIOBE Programming Community index ranks Ruby as the 10th most popular language (January 2010).
Ruby on Rails (‘Rails’ or ‘RoR’ for short) is an open source web development framework for the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails is intended to be used for rapid application development using Agile development methodologies.
Ruby on Rails was extracted from 37signals' Basecamp, a project management tool, by David Heinemeier Hansson and was released as open source in July 2004. Ruby on Rails has been shipped with Apple's OS X since v10.5 ("Leopard"), which was released in 2007.
Ruby on Rails has been used to create several high profile, well known web services, including Twitter, Basecamp, Hulu, and Github.
"Rails", "Ruby on Rails", and the Rails logo are registered trademarks of David Heinemeier Hansson. Rails is released under the MIT license. Ruby under the Ruby License.
Background links
Ruby language: http://www.ruby-lang.org
Wikipedia on Ruby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29
The TIOBE index: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org
The Ruby on Rails white paper: http://infoether.com/RubyRailsEcosystemFall2009.pdf
Wikipedia on Rails: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails
Sites built using Ruby on Rails
Twitter: http://twitter.com
Basecamp: http://basecamphq.com
Hulu: http://www.hulu.com
GitHub: http://github.com
MTV3 funnel: http://linkit.mtv3.fi
ArcticIndex: http://www.arcticindex.com
Further Information
Matias Korhonen
matias@kiskolabs.com
+358 50 4957476
###
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+358504957476
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