Burlington Ruby Conference 2013

Thank you for your interest in speaking at the 2nd annual Burlington Ruby Conference on August 3 - 4, 2013. The Call For Proposals will
remain open until April 1st.

We are looking to recruit speakers through a fair proposal and review process. Diversity is important to us, We encourage anyone who is interested in speaking (regardless of age, gender, sexuality, nationality, operating system, etc) to submit a proposal. We are looking for talks that are of interest to Rubyists of all kinds. See last year's site for a list of speakers and topics.

How to Submit a Proposal:

Please fill out our call for proposal form or contact info@burlingtonruby.com.

You get:

• Free conference pass
• The respect of your peers
• Other perks TBD (last year included relaxing post-conference speaker lunch on private lake front residence)
• Possibility for travel reimbursement (reviewed on a case-by-case basis, available funds will depend on sponsorship and ticket sales)

We get:

• Approximately 30 mininutes of your speaking time
• An optional 15 minute Question & Answer session after
• Rights to record your talk and publish online (released under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0)

How will the proposal selection process work?

We have a committee of six men and women from the Vermont developer community and will select speakers through two rounds of voting:

• Round 1: Proposals are anonymized to just title and abstract. Review committee will vote and select top 15 proposals.
• Round 2: Top proposals are de-anonymized and reviewed again. We will be looking to fill approximately 5 of the remaining slots. Talks will be chosen on a variety of criteria including originality, interest to reviewers, credibility, and proximity (yes we'll favor local speakers).

Be sure to read our diversity statement and code of conduct. Feel free to reach out to us with questions or concerns.