The conference is over. Thanks to all of the speakers, attendees, and sponsors for making this event possible and the best so far. We had about 250 attendees, and had served 270 meals each day.

Official conference tags for FlickR, Twitter, Facebook, etc are:
- rupy2009
- rupy
- rupycon

Videos are available on Blip.TV.

If you feel like discussing RuPy or would like to leave a link to a blog where you’d written a few words about the conference go ahead and subscribe to the rupy-discussions Google Group.

Thank you for joining us this year and see you in 2010 !

You may have noticed that at the end of RuPy there will be a Google Wave hackthon run by Jose Quesada from Max Planck Institute in Berlin. For those of you who want to take part in it – to make everything work smoothly – below there’s a grasp of information form Jose.

Three-paragraph intro to wave

The best (short) introduction I could find is this extract from a future oreilly book. For a longer one, based on how to _use_ it (not develop with the API!), see this book by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. And to understand why XMPP and wave could change how we program for the web, read this blog post.

For a developer, there are robots and gadgets. If you know igoogle gadgets, that kind of functionality is what you can embed on a wave. Bots look like Wave users, but they’re programmed to edit and update the contents of waves. So the main difference between a gadget and a bot is that the latter acts as an user and can edit content. A simple example would be a robot that automatically corrects typos or does code  highlighting. Almost any iGoogle or OpenSocial gadget can run within Google Wave. There are thoushands of those out there in the public domain (you may have created one). Here is a list of  available wave robots, and here’s another with more details.

There is currently a restriction in place that requires robots to live on Google App Engine so you need to code in something supported there. Python seems to be the best documented, but since there’s a JVM Jruby and groovy should be possible.

TODO list for a  successful hackathon

1. Come with an idea of what you want to do. Better yet, try to find code to reuse close to that idea,  because we only have 3 hours
2. Get the Google App Engine tools, install them, and play with them a little, make sure you can display hello world
3. Checkout the google wave resources repo
4. Tell us how much you have done in wave already (from reading docs to publishing a tool) in this survey.

There are no more spots for RuPy’09, thanks everyone for registering and see you in Poznan.

We would like to remind that registered but not-paid users’ reservations are therefore cancelled.

As most of you have noticed the agenda is here, however we would like to make it clear that it is still not final. We will try not to heavily modify it, but some minor modifications (i.e. moving talks around etc.) are imminent.

Any “big” modifications can happen only due to causes beyond our control, however we hope that no more major updates to the agenda will be made.

Unfortunately, due to his busy schedule, Obie Fernandez is not going to make his speech at RuPy’09. However, he asked his colleague, Durran Jordan, to do him a favour and speak in his place.

Durran is the author of the Mongoid library and the lead consultant of a large project using MongoDB, being developed at the Hashrocket company.

If you want to get to know how to use MongoDB in your Rails application, make sure not to miss Durran’s presentation!

Hey there,

we still have about 20 seats available so if you are hesitating do no more and join us in Poznan!

When we hit the limit (only paid entries count as registered) we will stop the registration and all unpaid registrants will not be able to come. If by accident someone pays after closing the registration (that is after hitting the level of maximum paid registrants) we will reimburse the paid amount.

See you at RuPy!

We created a RuPy Discussion Group for all conference participants and fans. The group is public. You can discuss there any confrence-related topic or ask questions. Join us there!

The dWorld has just started a Strongly Dynamic Quiz competition where you can win a free pass for the RuPy’09 conference. Good luck!

Kristian Rother has just announced a RuPy satellite meeting dedicated to structural bioinformatics. It will take place the day before the conference. Everybody is welcome!

Date: November 6th
Time: 13:00
Place: Collegium Biologicum – right next to the main conference
Room: 1.126 (1st floor at the very end of the building)

Tentative programme:

• Lightning talks (enrolment on-site)
• Code gallery
• Space for hands-on work on modules of interest, e.g.: Bio.PDB, Bio.RNA, Django, moderna.

For you folks outside of Poland we’ve got an additional payment option with credit/debit card or through MoneyBookers. Just use this form: http://rupy.eu/payment.htm

People from inside Poland can use the regular payment method which is far easier for us to process.