International Ruby Conferences in Winter 2016-2017

Winter is coming, and the biggest International Ruby conferences of the year are making their final preparations for your arrival! This winter promises to be cold, but you can stay warm by going to any of the conferences we’ll talk about in this article. Take your pick among Australia, India, and Taiwan for gorgeous weather and exciting programs.

1. Ruby Conf Taiwan

When: December 2–3, 2016

Where: Taiwan

Ruby Conf Taiwan is the biggest event related to Ruby programming in Taiwan, and has been held since 2010. It’s known for being the most international tech gathering in Taiwan. The only Ruby conference on the island, since its debut Ruby Conf Taiwan has attracted many foreign speakers and participants. Year over year, Ruby Conf Taiwan attracts more and more people from all corners of the globe.

Ruby Conf Taiwan also was the first conference in Taiwan to provide simultaneous translation from Chinese to English during the conference. We can say thanks to three people – iHower, Mu-Fan Teng, and Eddie Kao – who launched this conference and created the Ruby Taiwan community that currently organizes it.

This year, Ruby Conf Taiwan is meeting for the sixth time, and has already announced their speakers and topics. All topics covered at this year’s conference should be useful for both junior and senior developers. During this year’s conference you’ll be able to hear from various CEOs and founders, software engineers, web developers, consultants, architects, and even DevOps specialists. Ruby Conf Taiwan is also graced yearly with the presence of Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto himself, the man who created this awesome programming language that’s loved around the globe. This year’s speakers come from Heroku, Travis CI, Red Hat, GoGoVan, GitLab, and many other companies.

On the first day, topics will include the psychological phenomenon of programmers, how to write complex data pipelines in Ruby, and the idea that code is a human. During the second day, speakers will try to help you solve onboarding problems with Ruby, understand what large scale Rails applications are, and explain how to build maintainable command-line tools with MRuby. You can read about all the talks here. The full two-day schedule is at the bottom of the page (linked above).

Come to Ruby Conf Taiwan 2016 and discover spectacular new things about your favorite technology!

2. RubyConf India

When: January 27–29, 2017

Where: Kochi, India

RubyConf India is a global event that’s been complementing other RubyConf events across the world annually since 2010. This Indian edition of the international Ruby programming language conference is organized not for profit by a group of volunteers. RubyConf India aims to help gather, educate, entertain, and involve Ruby developers throughout the country and beyond.

Last year’s conference left participants impressed with the solid lineup of speakers. Last year also saw a larger turnout, suggesting a growing community of Rubyists. Expect this year’s event to be ever better!

This year’s RubyConf India is a two-day, single-track event focused on different parts of the Ruby/Rails ecosystem plus related technologies (data stores, front-end frameworks) and related teams (QA, product management, clients).

Speakers who have already been announced include: Elle Meredith – development director at @thoughtbotNYC and an organizer for and Women's Work Jelly; Jerry D’Antonio - contrarian, libertarian, curmudgeon, metalhead, Catholic, Akron Code Club organizer, concurrent-ruby creator, and Software Engineer at Riot Games; and finally Richard "Ruby Hero" Schneems who writes Ruby at Heroku, maintains CodeTriage.com, and co-organizes Keep Ruby Weird.

Visit the official RubyConf India 2017 website and follow them on twitter to stay up on the latest news.

Originally published here https://rubygarage.org/blog/ruby-conferences-in-winter

Sviatoslav Andrushko is a content manager at RubyGarage. Sviat adores writing about web development, web design, testing, and other IT-related topics.