EuRuKo 2009: That’s all, folks!

So, there it is, we’ve done it, EuRuKo 2009 is over!

It has been a really pleasing experience for all of us on the organization team, we’ve had a really, really good time sharing ideas and code to organize the main european Ruby conference. I have to admit it, we were really surprised to see Spain was proposed as the candidate country last year in Prague. The czech team proposed Madrid as the candidate city to the group of spaniards that were there, and we were excited to hear it. We eventually changed it to Barcelona instead, as Madrid was already quite full holding the Conferencia Rails (that’s the Spanish Rails Conference that is held every November and organized by ourselves by the way: it’s amazing as well )

So to set this up many things were made during this year: a new association was born, the SRUG (Spanish Ruby Users Group), which has been the organization in charge of the conference. We built a rails app to handle the registration process, talks listing and calendar, paypal payments and more – it was built over a simple app I did for the Conferencia Rails and made much bigger by Fernando Guillén, Juanjo Bazán and Raúl Murciano. The code of this app is freely available on github for use in other conferences, please fork us! We also received the help of the Scotland on Rails team, who sent us a pair of ruby scripts to build the EuRuKo twitter bot and the raffle. Thanks guys!

We even bought a gong for the lightning talks that will be passed from team to team during the next years conferences and will be a symbol for our descendants on the next centuries.

Now it’s time to pass the gong to the next country and start it over again for EuRuKo 2010. I hope they find as much fun as we did during 2009! See you next spring in Krakow!