Why the hype?

this is a portuguese post about a portuguese event, the usual english babbling will be back in a bit

Há quase duas semanas, lançámos uma formação em Rails para o público em geral.
Para quem queira aprender a trabalhar com esta framework é uma óptima oportunidade. Para quem já sabe Ruby/Rails, o 3º dia pode ser interessante ao nível do deployment, scaling e outros tópicos avançados.

A formação será nos dias 19, 20 e 21 de Maio em Coimbra, no Hotel Tryp.

Há descontos para estudantes ou para quem queira comparecer nos 3 dias. Mais informações no site do evento: http://training.webreakstuff.com/

September will be a great month when it comes to meetings and conferences! The second edition of BarCamp Portugal is set to be on 1-2 in Coimbra and is being organized and hosted by the whole team @ WBS. In September 17-19 we’re also attending to RailsConf Europe in Berlin.

Organizing and hosting BarCamp is a highly gratifying experience. Being free and ad-hoc it is a nice opportunity to gather the good minds we have in Portugal working on the same (or near) areas as we do. I’m sure this will turn into a great event!
BTW, some “link-love” to our sponsor: Waveweb, owner of Gimmestock and Job board. They are buying all the attendees’ dinner!

For the RailsConf days we’re gonna stay at the Helter Skelter Hostel and I will be attending the “Refactoring” and “FLEX and Rails” workshops and I bet everything will be awesome!

Over the next months we’ll be organizing the Barcamp Portugal.

This will be the 2nd edition of the event and we’re trying our best to keep the quality over the roof. Last year we had more than 50 people that had come from all over the country to attend various presentations about several interest areas: Rails, Web, Innovation, Jails <3 FreeBSD, DRM and the music scenario among others. You can check this information about the past year here

This time we’re aiming to have a first day with some talks and in the second day we’ll have workshops. You know, everybody loves doing stuff rather than watching 30 minutes of somebody talking about stuff.

So if you wanna make it to BarcampPT ‘07, add yourself to the list and read more about the event here.

When? 1 and 2 September
Where? Coimbra, Portugal