Conference Raffle: Here are the Winners!
Hooray!
As you know, we rolled up our sleeves to get you some free conference tickets to make your summer even better and send you out into the coding community.
We have been offered no less than 49 free tickets at some of the best Ruby conferences on 3 different continents. Most conferences offer free tickets, which is really fantastic, but some of them will even cover flights and accomodation for you. And all of them are really worth visiting!
You are invited you to attend, talk, mingle and meet some of the most awesome members of our community.
A very warm thank you to all of these amazing conferences!
♥ Arrrrcamp
♥ DevCon TLV
♥ Distill
♥ dotRBeu
♥ eurucamp
♥ FutureStack
♥ JRubyConf
♥ Madison Ruby
♥ Rails Israel
♥ RubyShift
♥ RuPy
♥ SoCoded
♥ StarTechConf
♥ Strange Loop
♥ Wicked Good Ruby
You sent us your wish lists. We made our brains fume by thinking about how to implement the raffle and and our conference raffle fairy has written some code. If you want to look at our cards you can find the logic behind all this here The gist of it: We made sure that everybody who applied had a good chance of winning a ticket and that nobody came away empty-handed. We also applied the rules announced on our conferences page.
Now heeeeere you can watch how winners were picked. Make sure to watch it in HD in fullscreen mode, it’s fun :)
Here’s the full transcript of the raffle.
And finally - drum rollll
Here come the winners:
| Conference | Date | Name | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RuPy * | 11-14.10. | Maja Komel | Spree Girls | @RuPy |
| RuPy * | 11-14.10. | Nina Breznik | Spree Girls | @RuPy |
| dotRBeu | 18.10. | Wiktoria Dalach | Species+ | @dotRBeu |
| dotRBeu | 18.10. | Alicja Cyganiewicz | Species+ | @dotRBeu |
| RubyShift * | 27-28.09. | Anja | inchworms | @rubyshift |
| RubyShift * | 27-28.09. | CarlaD | inchworms | @rubyshift |
| eurucamp | 16-18.08. | Laura Wadden | RailsGrrls | @eurucamp |
| eurucamp | 16-18.08. | Nicole Felhösi | RailsGrrls | @eurucamp |
| Distill | 08-09.08. | Jen Diamond | Bundler | @distill |
| Distill | 08-09.08. | Joyce | Bundler | @distill |
| Strange Loop * | 18-20.09. | Laura Garcia | New Rosies | @strangeloop_stl |
| Strange Loop * | 18-20.09. | Adriana Palacio | New Rosies | @strangeloop_stl |
| SoCoded | 19-20.09. | Angela Ebirim | Hackety Hack | @socodedconf |
| StarTechConf | 25-26.10. | Cecilia Rivero | Punchgirls | @startechconf |
| StarTechConf | 25-26.10. | Mayn Ektvedt Kjær | Punchgirls | @startechconf |
| Madison Ruby | 22-24.08. | Jacqueline S. Homan | Hackety Hack | @MadisonRuby |
| dotRBeu | 18.10. | Tam Eastley | Highway to Rails | @dotRBeu |
| dotRBeu | 18.10. | Susanne Dewein | Highway to Rails | @dotRBeu |
| RubyShift | 27-28.09. | Victoria Martinez | Unicorn | @rubyshift |
| Arrrrcamp | 03-04.10. | Oana Sipos | Oana | @arrrrcamp |
| SoCoded | 19-20.09. | juliaguar | D* | @socodedconf |
| Madison Ruby | 22-24.08. | Hester van Wijk | Unicorn | @MadisonRuby |
| dotRBeu | 18.10. | CarlaD | inchworms | @dotRBeu |
| RubyShift | 27-28.09. | Maja Komel | Spree Girls | @rubyshift |
| JRubyConfEU | 14-15.08. | Nina Breznik | Spree Girls | @JRubyConfEU |
| FutureStack * | 24-25.10. | Laura Garcia | New Rosies | #futurestack |
| RubyShift | 27-28.09. | Tam Eastley | Highway to Rails | @rubyshift |
| RubyShift | 27-28.09. | Susanne Dewein | Highway to Rails | @rubyshift |
| Arrrrcamp | 03-04.10. | Victoria Martinez | Unicorn | @arrrrcamp |
| JRubyConfEU | 14-15.08. | juliaguar | D* | @JRubyConfEU |
| Wicked Good Ruby | 12-13.10. | Hester van Wijk | Unicorn | @WickedGoodRuby |
| RubyShift | 27-28.09. | Oana Sipos | Oana | @rubyshift |
| RubyShift | 27-28.09. | juliaguar | D* | @rubyshift |
| DevConTLV | 10.10. | Tam Eastley | Highway to Rails | #DevconTLV |
| DevConTLV | 10.10. | Susanne Dewein | Highway to Rails | #DevconTLV |
| RailsIL | 09.10. | Tam Eastley | Highway to Rails | #RailsIL |
| RailsIL | 09.10. | Susanne Dewein | Highway to Rails | #RailsIL |
*) domestic flights covered
Congratulations!
We are so grateful for all those fantastic conference organizers pulling all these free tickets out of their magic hats for you. And we couldn’t be more happy: You get to go to fantastic conferences and in most cases meet other RGSoC students to rock the conference days with!
Oh, how we wish we could be there too and see you all spread your wings and fly into the community … but we hope, you’ll keep us in the loop and tell the world how your first conferences have been!
Now we even have a few tickets left … that calls for another raffle! We will let you know what happens next soon.
Happy conferencing, you lucky, lucky students! ♥
