RubyConf
Every year since 2001, Ruby Central, Inc. has produced RubyConf, the International Ruby conference. Attendance grew by a factor of ten between 2001 and 2006. RubyConf has provided a forum for presentations about Ruby technologies by their creators, including talks by Nathaniel Talbot on Test Unit, Jim Weirich on Rake, David Heinemeier Hansson on Ruby on Rails, Why the Lucky Stiff on the YAML library, and Sasada Koichi on YARV. Matz has attended, and spoken at, all the RubyConfs but one.
RubyKaigi
The first Japanese Ruby conference, RubyKaigi 2006, took place in Odaiba. RubyKaigi provides many new and exciting talks by Matz and other Rubyists in every year.
EuRuKo (Europaeische Ruby Konferenz)
The first annual European Ruby Conference (EuRuKo) was held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2003. Organized by a team of German Rubyists including Armin Roehrl and Michael Neumann, EuRuKo emerged as the second annual Ruby event, starting two years after RubyConf.
Regional Events
Ruby Central, Inc administers a Regional Conference Grant Program, to offset expenses for local and regional groups wanting to organize events.

Ruby Central, Inc has also teamed up with SDForum to produce the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, entering its second year in 2007.

RubyNation is an annual Ruby conference serving the Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC areas.

Scotland on Rails 2009
Scotland on Rails is pleased to announce that Conference2009 will be held March 26-28 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

We are now accepting submissions. The closing date for submissions is December 1st 2008, so there’s still time! Please mail your plaintext proposals for 45 minute sessions to submissions@scotlandonrails.com.

Alternatively, if you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please mail sponsorship@scotlandonrails.com for a prospectus.

Lastly, if you wish to be notified when we open for registration, you can sign up on the site.

Come and enjoy all that Edinburgh has to offer (whisky! castle! volcano! ruby! whisky!) in March. We hope to see you there.

Posted by James Edward Gray II on 10 Nov 2008

MountainWest RubyConf 2009 dates and CFP
MountainWest RubyConf 2009 will be held March 13-14, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Proposals to speak at this regional conference are now being accepted. Please send your proposal to proposals@mtnwestrubyconf.org.

The submission deadline is midnight (MST) on December 31st, 2008.

There are sponsorship opportunities available as well. Please contact sponsorship@mtnwestruby.org if you are interested.

Please see mtnwestrubyconf.org for more details as they become available.