Re: RubyConf talk details?

> Matthew Williams wrote:
> > In just over 24 hours we'll be readying up for Matz to hit the stage
> > to open up RubyConf and shortly thereafter JRuby will have Room 3 for
> > 45 minutes.
> >
> > But I'm in a bit of a dilemma, the other two scheduled talks sound
> > interesting (grrr for multi track conferences).  I had the opportunity
> > to see Charles speak at acts_as_conference in Orlando and it's always
> > amazing to see the progression of this project and the constant
> > improvements and how high it's setting the bar for other
> > implementations.
> >
> > So, my question is, will there be any new and excited announcements or
> > demonstrations (or anything different from when I saw Charles speak
> > earlier this year) that may swing me over to Room 3 tomorrow from the
> > other two scheduled talks (Ruby for embedded applications and Building
> > Distributed Applications)?
> >
> > Take care and I hope to see many familiar names at RubyConf this weekend!
>
> 45 minutes isn't very long, but we'd like to make it really heavy on
> demos and practical details. We'll skip GUI stuff since the Happy
> Campers have a MonkeyBars talk, and instead show Rails
> execution/deployment, 3D game dev, 1.9 support, and do a short-but-sweet
> pitch for why building on the JVM is such a great idea.
>
> I won't try to pull you away, if you think you've seen this stuff
> before, but it should still be a fun talk. To be honest, I'm really
> hoping more folks *not* interested in JRuby are there...it's a little
> unfortunate we don't have a plenary session this year.