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+Ruby programmers around the world are getting involved in more and more
+conferences, where they get together to share reports on
+work-in-progress, discuss the future of Ruby, and welcome newcomers to
+the Ruby community.
+
+### Major Ruby Conferences
+
+[RubyConf][1]
+: Every year since 2001, [Ruby Central, Inc.][2] has produced RubyConf,
+  the International Ruby conference. Attendance grew by a factor of ten
+  between 2001 and 2006. RubyConf has provided a forum for presentations
+  about Ruby technologies by their creators, including talks by
+  Nathaniel Talbot on Test Unit, Jim Weirich on Rake, David Heinemeier
+  Hansson on Ruby on Rails, Why the Lucky Stiff on the  YAML library,
+  and Sasada Koichi on YARV. Matz has attended, and spoken at, all the
+  RubyConfs but one.
+
+[RubyKaigi][3]
+: The first Japanese Ruby conference, RubyKaigi 2006, took place in
+  Odaiba. RubyKaigi provides many new and exciting talks by Matz and
+  other Rubyists in every year.
+
+[EuRuKo <small>(Europaeische Ruby Konferenz)</small>][4]
+: The first annual European Ruby Conference (EuRuKo) was held in
+  Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2003. Organized by a team of German Rubyists
+  including Armin Roehrl and Michael Neumann, EuRuKo emerged as the
+  second annual Ruby event, starting two years after RubyConf.
+
+[Open Source Developer Conference][5]
+: This is an annual open source development conference that is held each
+  year in Australia. While not specifically a Ruby conference, each year
+  we do get a number of Ruby papers and we are always interested in more
+  Ruby content.
+
+### Regional Ruby Conferences
+
+[Ruby Central][2] administers a [Regional Conference Grant Program][6],
+to offset expenses for local and regional groups wanting to organize
+events.
+
+Ruby Central has also teamed up with [SDForum][7] to produce the Silicon
+Valley Ruby Conference, entering its second year in 2007.
+
+[RubyNation][8] is an annual Ruby conference serving the Virginia, West
+Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC areas.
+
+### Ruby At Other Conferences
+
+There has been a Ruby track at the [O’Reilly Open Source Conference][9]
+(OSCON) since 2004, and an increasing presence on the part of Ruby and
+Rubyists at other non-Ruby-specific gatherings. A number of conferences
+have also been devoted to [Ruby on Rails][10], including Ruby Central’s
+[RailsConf][11], [RailsConf Europe][12] (co-produced in 2006 by Ruby
+Central and [Skills Matter][13], and in 2007 by Ruby Central and
+O’Reilly), and Canada on Rails.
+
+[1]: http://rubyconf.org/ 
+[2]: http://www.rubycentral.org 
+[3]: http://jp.rubyist.net/RubyKaigi2008/ 
+[4]: http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/europeRuby/tiki.cgi?c=v&amp;p=Euruko07 
+[5]: http://www.osdc.com.au/ 
+[6]: http://www.rubycentral.org/rcg2006.pdf 
+[7]: http://www.sdforum.org 
+[8]: http://rubynation.org/ 
+[9]: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ 
+[10]: http://www.rubyonrails.org 
+[11]: http://www.railsconf.org 
+[12]: http://europe.railsconf.org 
+[13]: http://www.skillsmatter.com