caboose

Hey everyone! Railsconf is just days away, and O’Reilly tell us that we have over 300 people, and about 50 of you are NOT going to the main conference – Cabooseconf only! Shit yeah!

unconference

So, here’s what’s going to happen. We’ll run this in unconference style, which means, a big board with your sessions (if you want to run them) and hackfests. If you have any experience “running” an unconference, please hit me up, I’m a few organizational hands short this year.

hackfests

If you have an open source project, our room is ripe for the using. In fact, this was my original request of O’Reilly: that we are the official (as much as this exists) place for OSS hacking. Tables will be set up in circular fashion, and I’m bringing a supply of extension cables, squids and other such power devices. However, you should bring your own too, just to be sure. Sidebar, I’d LOVE to work on altered beast at some point.

Food

Last year, we had our friends sponsor the conf, which meant free food, energy drinks, and such. Due to the fucked way that Vegas operates with unions and profit-starved hotels (hah!) we can’t provide these, and I really don’t want to funnel any more money into the corporate machine. So, unfortunately, no free food at cabooseconf.

Rock band

This was a great hit last year. We WILL be bringing the xbox and some other toys which we’ll use on the projector.

Electronic musicians

Much like our pal Zed Shaw, this year I’ve been doing a lot of music (ma46 and telesonic commander). Completely unrelated to ruby or rails. So, if you have some cool gear (monome, synths, anything) bring a piece or two and we’ll have some nightly jam sessions. I’ll probably bring my Moog, a mixer, and kaoss pad. We should be able to send out midi sync over the network and a midi backplane, and I’ll bring a nice big loud speaker to annoy the hotel with.