Mark Gardner

A serial entrepreneur and consultant, Mark is the original co-founder of the company with Rich. With over 30 years of small and big company operational, sales and marketing experience, Mark heads up the administrative and operational side of the company. He is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former Marine Officer.

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RubyConf 2009 - San Francisco

Posted by Mark Gardner on 28 January 2010 19:56

The ninth annual Ruby Conference was held for the first time in the Bay Area this week and was oversubscribed. Originally we expected the attendance would be scaled back due to the economic times but were surprised when things significantly picked up at the last minute and we had to turn back potential attendees because the Embassy Suites venue did not have the capacity.

What was particularly noticeable was the number of people looking for Ruby and Rails developers. The job board was packed with ads from big companies as well as start-ups.

New to this event was the first 5K run which drew almost 20% of the attendees as participants. It was a great run along the waterfront course near the hotel. Planners are already expecting to have both a 5K and a 10K at the upcoming RailsConf 2010 which will be held in the historic Inner Harbor area in Baltimore in June .

Presentations for RubyConf 2009 can be found online at Confreaks.

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