If you have a good idea for a Ruby related talk, we want to encourage you to make a proposal for a speech. We are looking for people willing to present on topics like:

• Non conventional uses of Ruby
• Interesting practices/techniques to develop Ruby code
• Useful Ruby libraries/gems
• Ruby programming related to other technologies/fields

And if you are too shy to propose a talk, you can still help by telling us what kind of topics you would like to see covered during the conference. Make your voice heard at the Euruko this year!

Presentation proposals should be a relatively detailed extended abstract including the topic, outline, suggested duration and details of what will be presented, and should be emailed to talks@euruko2009.org. (Ideas for topics should also be emailed to the same address.)

Sessions will be distributed in a single track covering technical sessions (20/30/45 minutes + 10 for Q&A), and lightning talks.

The call for papers finishes by February 28th and accepted proposal authors will be contacted on or before March 10th.

That's right folks, we've definitive dates for EuRuKo 2009 so don't miss out: Barcelona 9-10 May 2009. Mark your calendars!

And we have the definitive venue as well: Citilab a nice place with direct subway connection to the city center and with all the facilities we need: Wi-fi, room for 250 people, recording and streaming equipment and experience hosting this kind of conferences (like DrupalCon 2007).

We are working already on the website to manage the registration process, as soon as it's ready we will open the registration and the call for papers.

Hope to see you in Barcelona!

It's now official, the next EuRuKo will be held in Barcelona in the first quarter of 2009. We don't know the exact dates yet but we'll post them here as soon as we know.

We'll also post all the relevant info of the organizing process here.