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Railstoitaly 07

Done!

Rails to Italy is done, and we got the impression that everyone enjoyed themselves. For us it was a good experience bringing the community together.

We noticed that there are already photos on flickr - if you have more, send us the links. And tag the ones on flickr with "railstoitaly", so that we find them. Our conference video will be available online once it's cut and finished.

The program have been changed (just a bit!)

We corrected some errors on the program and changed it slightly. Check it out here.

Program!

We finally published the program. No need to print it out, there will be a printed copy in the conference bag (including any last minute change).

Extended Normal fee and student discount

The deadline for the normal fee have been extended and there is a special offer Students. Read more...

Coding Challenge!

We're happy to announce the Rails to Italy 2007 Coding Challenge. The topic will be "Your Favourite Thing" - create a small, interactive web application that is related to your favorite thing or activity. Read more...

Invited Speakers

We will invite a number of high-profile members of the Rails community, to share their visions and knowledge with us. This is the list of people who've already confirmed their attendance - the list will grow as more of the invitees respond.
And if you also want to speak at Rails to Italy, check our call for papers now!

David Heinemeier Hansson [Videoconf.]

DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON is a programmer and evangelist of Less Software. He's the creator of applications like Instiki, Basecamp, and Ta-da, and works with the open source community and design extraordinaires 37signals. Since its release in late July 2004, he's also been leading the development of Ruby on Rails, a web application framework and environment for building real-world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups.

Eyal Oren

EYAL OREN is a PhD student and researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute. His research is oriented on data-driven techniques for manipulating, analysing, and using Semantic Web data. He is the creator and developer of ActiveRDF, BrowseRDF and SemperWiki, the SWORD Semantic Web to Ruby-on-Rails extension and the Semantic Web resource locator Sindice.com. See his homepage on for more information.

Zed Shaw

Zed A. Shaw is best known in the Ruby world for creating the Mongrel web server and also for being an outspoken public speaker about all things that intersect computers, philosophy, society, and strangeness. He currently works as a Vice President at an investment bank making Ruby on Rails applications that make other people lots of money (if you don't count how much it all costs). His latest project at savingtheinternetwithhate.com is slated to take over the world within the next 10 years, and he spends most of his free time tinkering on that from his tiny New York, NY apartment.
Pic by adewale oshineye

James Cox

James Cox has been developing and interacting with the web for the last six years, building apps small and big. Having worked on projects as diverse as editorially driven content management through e-commerce, he has a wide range of scenarios to draw from. Having not only developed small projects, James has experience managing high scalability situations too. Starting with PHP's website, php.net, he spent many years managing the various services within the infrastructure team, learning the tricks of the trade and experimenting with new techniques. Since, then James has solved the scalability and uptime issues of a major Mid-East online news source, a massively popular webzine serving over 10 million hits a day, and has helped twitter get started working on their problems. Within the community James has worked on testing new availability scenarios with other leading scalability evangelists and continues to research new ways to attain high performance webapps.

Ben Scofield

Ben Scofield has been building web applications for nearly ten years in Perl, VBScript, C#, PHP, and (most recently, and by far most happily) Ruby on Rails. He is currently a senior developer with Viget Labs, where he has served as the tech lead for several large Web 2.0 projects. He spoke at Railsconf 2007 and will be speaking at Rubyconf 2007 later this year. Ben loves nothing better than curling up with a good Ruby book, his dog, and his wife Lacie at his home in North Carolina.

Desi McAdam

Desi McAdam, based in Atlanta, GA is a well-known figure in the Ruby and Rails community, being introduced to Ruby on Rails by her long-time partner Obie Fernandez back in 2005. She scored a full time Ruby and Rails project with one of her ThoughtWorks clients in 2006 and has been "railing away" continuously since then. Desi is also the founder of DevChix, one of the largest advocacy organizations for women developers.

Lisa Todd

Lisa Todd is a developer with CityCliq.com and is currently apprenticing with Desi McAdam and Obie Fernandez. She comes from an art and design background. She is also a member of DevChix, a non-profit organization specifically for women in development.

Peter Armstrong

Peter Armstrong is the author of Flexible Rails, a book about using Adobe Flex with Ruby on Rails to develop next-generation rich Internet applications. He has been working with Flex full-time since July 2004, and working with Rails in his free time since before Rails 1.0.

Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs is a software architect from Vienna, Austria, and working on web sites and application since 1996. He is the author of script.aculo.us, a cross-browser JavaScript framework featuring advanced Ajax UI controls, visual effects and other cool stuff. As a core team member of both the Prototype JavaScript Framework and Ruby on Rails he tries to take web user interfaces to new heights while at the same time caring for developer sanity. Best of all, you can hire him for your own projects. :)

Press Pass

There are five press pass available.

To register, please write us not later than September 30th.

Passes will be assigned at the discreption of the organization. Preference will be given to applicants that guarantee a wider dissemination of the event.

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