Ruby Conferences

RubyConferences.org is a simple list of Ruby conferences, published collaboratively with the Ruby community. Updates are sometimes posted to @rubyconferences.

ICS Calendar Feeds

This page publishes .ics feed files for inclusion in personal calendars:

• calendar.ics for the events only
• cfp.ics for the CFP open/close dates

RSS Feed

This page publishes an RSS feed so you can stay up to date with newly announced Ruby conferences.

• feed.xml for RSS Readers

Eligible Conferences

Focus is a goal of this project and as a result, only conferences that are specifically for Ruby are listed. That means that if a conference covers Ruby, but is not specifically for Rubyists, then it is left out.

A good rule of thumb for whether a conference should be included is if its name includes either Ruby or Rails and how it describes itself. A conference that describes itself as a "Conference on Web Development" might be an awesome event, but it's probably not a Ruby conference.

Contributing

The list of events is driven by the conferences file in the _data directory - if you have an update for those things, just change the YAML and send a PR.

Conferences

The file to be changed is _data/conferences.yml. This file is order-dependent. Put your conference in the YAML file sorted by its start_date.

Here is a list of the keys that can be used:

• name: The official name of the event
• location: When the event is in the US, this would be "City, State", for any other country, use "City, Country".
• start_date: The date of the first day of the event - ISO8601 formatted (yyyy-mm-dd).
• end_date: The date of the last day of the event - ISO8601 formatted (yyyy-mm-dd). For one day events this should equal start_date.
• url: The url for the event.
• twitter: The twitter handle for the event, you can leave off the "@".
• mastodon: The mastodon url for the event, for example https://ruby.social/@conferencehandle

Extra keys for the upcoming events:

• reg_phrase: Typically you want to put "Registration open" here.
• reg_date: If there is a registration deadline, enter that here - ISO8601 formatted (yyyy-mm-dd).
• cfp_open_date: The date when the CFP was opened - ISO8601 formatted (yyyy-mm-dd).
• cfp_close_date: If there is a CFP deadline, enter that here - ISO8601 formatted (yyyy-mm-dd).
• cfp_link: A link to the CFP submission page.
• status: Typically you want to put "Cancelled", "Postponed" or "To be announced" here.
• date_precision: Controls the precision of the start_date and end_date when the conference dates aren't announced just yet, but it's confirmed that the conference is happening. Possible values: full (implicit default), month or year. The start_date and end_date fields still need to be fully formatted ISO8601 dates, you can put the last day of the month/year in it so it also gets ordered properly.
• announced_on: The date on which the conference was announced - ISO8601 formatted (yyyy-mm-dd). This date is used as the publishing date for the RSS feed so people can stay up to date with newly announced conferences.

Extra keys for the past events:

• video_link: A url to the videos for the event.

Meetups

The file to be changed is _data/meetups.yml. This file is order-dependent. Put your meetup in the YAML file sorted by its date. Otherwise, put the meetup at the end of the YAML file and run rake sort_meetups. Please make sure to preserve any comments in the YAML file.

Here is a list of the keys that can be used:

• name: The official name of the event
• location: When the event is in the US, this would be "City, State", for any other country, use "City, Country".
• date: The date of the event - ISO8601 formatted (yyyy-mm-dd).
• start_time: The start time of the event - formatted as (hh:mm:ss ZZZ)
  • hh - between 0 and 23
  • mm - between 0 and 59
  • ss - between 0 and 59
  • ZZZ - timezone (e.g. CDT or EST)
• end_time: The end time of the event - ISO8601 formatted as (hh:mm:ss ZZZ) using same values as start_time
• url: The url for the event.
• status: Typically you want to put "Cancelled" or "Postponed" here.

Getting started

We build the site with Jekyll.

Install Ruby, then:

cd ruby-conferences.github.io
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

and point your browser at http://localhost:4000/

License

The design of the site is copyrighted by Cameron Daigle.

All other original work uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.