The Gotham Ruby Conference, a one-day, single-track event in New York City,
is now accepting talk proposals. GORUCO will be held on Saturday, June
20th, 2015 in the Altman building in the Flatiron District of Manhattan.
Submissions are due by Tuesday, March 24th @ 11:59pm EDT.
# Topics: If You're Interested, We're Interested
We’re interested in talks on Ruby, but as the NYC Ruby community has grown
and matured, our mission has expanded to include anything of interest to
the modern development community.
Accepted topics from last year included Raspberry Pi, CS theory, Community
development, JS MVC frameworks, Human memory hacks, and even COBOL. We'd
love to see proposals on Golang, Clojure, DevOps, Docker, or whatever else
is on your mind.
# Talk Formats and Constraints
This year we will again be accepting two talk formats:
* 30 minute full-length talk (plus Q&A)
* 10 minute micro-talk.
All speakers will receive free attendance to the event. In addition those
speakers selected for a full-length talk will receive:
* A $300 honorarium.
* A $600 travel reimbursement if you live outside of the tri-state region.
All proposals must specify exactly who will be presenting. For example, we
will not accept proposals from companies unless they specify who will be
presenting on behalf of the company. Presentations may be given by more
than one person, but multiple speakers will split the honorarium and travel
reimbursement.
# Local Speaker Slots
GORUCO believes in highlighting local talent. We reserve at least two slots
for local speakers. Individual talks and panels will be considered local if
at least half of the participants are from the tri-state region - that is,
within typical commuting distance of Manhattan. In the past, these slots
have been less competitive than the other talk slots, so if you live in the
tri-state region we strongly urge you to submit a proposal.
# How to Submit
Please submit as many proposals as you'd like through this form:
https://goruco.wufoo.com/forms/goruco-2015-call-for-proposals/
Once the CFP is closed, we'll let everyone know if they've been accepted or
not.
# Video Archives
We will be recording all the talks and making the videos freely available
online. If your talk is accepted, you'll be asked to sign a consent form.
# Code of Conduct
In order to ensure that GORUCO is a welcoming and safe conference, all
attendees and speakers are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct:
http://goruco.com/code-of-conduct
Please make sure that your talk proposal and materials respect this.
If you have any questions, please email info@goruco.com.
Please submit all proposals by 11:59:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, March 24th, 2015.