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  <description>FOSCON 2008: Cooking with Ruby

What: 	FOSCON is a free, fun gathering of Ruby fans held during an evening of O'Reilly's OSCON conference with cool presentations, food, discussions, and a live coding competition.
Who:	Anyone interested in Ruby, whether you're just curious or a seasoned pro.
Where:	CubeSpace, Portland, Oregon near the Oregon Convention Center (directions).
When:	Wednesday, July 23, 2008 from 6pm-9pm.
Why:	The Portland Ruby Brigade user group wants to share the joy of Ruby with you.

Presentations
* IronRuby: John Lam
* Selectricity and RubyVote: Benjamin Mako Hill
* Ruby performance: Brian Ford
* Musical glasses: Gregory Borenstein
* Five minutes with Selenium: Ian Dees, author of &quot;Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby&quot;
* Ruby culture: Audrey Eschright, Reid Beels and Igal Koshevoy of Calagator
* Ruby server automation: Igal Koshevoy on AutomateIt
* Ruby on Rails profiling: M. Edward Borasky on applying Linux OProfile
* Ruby web development: John Labovitz on Gossamer, a microframework to spin websites out of distributed, lightweight, ephemeral resources
* Live coding competition: Ruby on Rails, and hopefully Python Django, PHP Symfony, Drupal, and/or GemStone/S Smalltalk Seaside (details)


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  <title>FOSCON 2008: Cooking with Ruby</title>
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    <description>CubeSpace is an innovative workspace community in Portland, Oregon. We provide work stations, meeting rooms, and big office amenities to people who would otherwise be working from their homes, coffee shops, or wherever they can set up their laptops or use their cell phones. Our services are available on a monthly membership basis, or at hourly or daily rates.</description>
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    <street-address>622 SE Grand Ave.</street-address>
    <telephone>503-206-3500</telephone>
    <title>CubeSpace [ *sniff* out of business 12 June 2009]</title>
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