EuRuKo 2013 Call for Presentations

That's all folks! The voting period has ended and soon the final speaker lineup has been announced. Grab your sunscreen, pack your bag, and see you in Athens!

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30 Nominated & active proposals

Grzegorz Witek: ... but we had to kill Unicorns confirmed
Ranked 1 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 673
Dirkjan Bussink: The future of Ruby is faster confirmed
Ranked 2 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 526
Benjamin Smith: Architecting your Rails app for success! confirmed
Ranked 3 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 484
Konstantin Tennhard: Natural Language Processing with Ruby confirmed
Ranked 4 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 446
Pat Shaughnessy: Functional Programming and Ruby confirmed
Ranked 5 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 435
Ben Lovell: Achieving zomgscale with Celluloid and JRuby! confirmed
Ranked 6 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 347
Josh Kalderimis: No one plans for complexity, and neither should you! could not attend
Ranked 7 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 342
Alexandre de Oliveira: Forget about classes, welcome objects confirmed
Ranked 8 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 323
Javier Ramírez: Fun with Ruby and Redis confirmed
Ranked 9 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 297
Chris Kelly: Down the rb_newobj() Rabbit Hole: Garbage Collection and a Glimpse into Ruby's Future confirmed
Ranked 10 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 242
Bill Kalligas: 35.000 tests and counting! confirmed
Ranked 11 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 229
Josep M. Bach: Virtual Machines: Down the Rabbit Hole
Ranked 12 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 227
Paul Battley: What should we take out of Ruby?
Ranked 13 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 223
Tero Parviainen: Immutability in Ruby
Ranked 14 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 221
Daniel Bovensiepen: Shrink To Grow
Ranked 15 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 220
Luismi Cavallé: Keep your ActiveRecord models manageable the Rails way
Ranked 16 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 200
Richard Schneeman: Dissecting Ruby with Ruby
Ranked 17 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 197
Julian Fischer: Look behind the scenes of a PaaS
Ranked 18 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 189
Daniel Lobato García: Enabling the quest of science with Ruby. A talk about building an infrastructure with Ruby.
Ranked 19 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 185
Panagiotis PJ Papadomitsos: Scaling and automating the heck out of your infrastructure with Chef
Ranked 20 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 178
Alexey Vasiliev: Features what you might have missed about PostgreSQL
Ranked 21 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 177
Elia Schito: Opal, get back at doing Ruby on your browser ☺
Ranked 22 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 168
Yorick Peterse: Parsing And Analysing Ruby For Fun And Profit
Ranked 23 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 167
Tim Lossen: I <3 State
Ranked 24 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 156
Max Gorin: Multi-hundred-model apps with Rails and Netzke
Ranked 25 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 145
Nicolas Mérouze: Asynchronous network progamming with JRuby and Netty
Ranked 26 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 140
Corey Woodcox: Ruby in my yard!
Ranked 27 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 122
Alex Petrov (aka. Alex P): Fabulous adventures of Rubyist in Clojure world
Ranked 28 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 114
Siddharth Sharma: Roll your own web framework in half an hour
Ranked 29 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 108
Pablo Astigarraga: 50 Shades of MVC
Ranked 30 in Phase 2 with a weighted final score of 82

The following 61 didn't make it into the final list

Srushti Ambekallu: Let's hear it for Adhearsion
Ranked 92 in Phase 1 with 44 unique views, 5 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Ryan Stenhouse: Écouter et répéter is SO last century
Ranked 81 in Phase 1 with 59 unique views, 8 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Stephan: The Days After Tomorrow — Are Cucumber, RSpec, Mini::Test And Friends Enough?
Ranked 79 in Phase 1 with 36 unique views, 7 counted upvotes and 9 counted downvotes
Tom Stuart: The OO/web impedance mismatch
Ranked 34 in Phase 1 with 46 unique views, 19 counted upvotes and 8 counted downvotes
Daniel Schierbeck: Curly — Refactoring the view layer
Ranked 84 in Phase 1 with 69 unique views, 10 counted upvotes and 20 counted downvotes
Pedro Pimentel: Building your Testing Mindset with Ruby
Ranked 63 in Phase 1 with 49 unique views, 14 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Richard Schneeman: Millions of Apps: What we've Learned
Ranked 41 in Phase 1 with 63 unique views, 22 counted upvotes and 14 counted downvotes
Clemens Helm: The Ruby workflow or: Less workflow, more Ruby.
Ranked 37 in Phase 1 with 42 unique views, 15 counted upvotes and 6 counted downvotes
Mike AbiEzzi: Rails, meet DDD
Ranked 42 in Phase 1 with 62 unique views, 18 counted upvotes and 11 counted downvotes
Bruno Aguirre: The Web of tomorrow
Ranked 68 in Phase 1 with 59 unique views, 11 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Luca Guidi: A Rails Criticism
Ranked 64 in Phase 1 with 91 unique views, 16 counted upvotes and 21 counted downvotes
Jan Stępień: Broadening horizons
Ranked 73 in Phase 1 with 43 unique views, 9 counted upvotes and 10 counted downvotes
Marc-André Lafortune: Bug or Feature – the Ruby quiz game
Ranked 38 in Phase 1 with 51 unique views, 19 counted upvotes and 9 counted downvotes
Michal Fojtik: Deltacloud API - an opensource cloud API
Ranked 82 in Phase 1 with 38 unique views, 7 counted upvotes and 10 counted downvotes
David Padilla: Web applications with Ruby (not Rails)
Ranked 55 in Phase 1 with 63 unique views, 18 counted upvotes and 17 counted downvotes
Jim Gay: Making Sense of Making Code
Ranked 46 in Phase 1 with 42 unique views, 14 counted upvotes and 8 counted downvotes
Ariejan de Vroom: Rails is Not the Holy Grail
Ranked 48 in Phase 1 with 60 unique views, 20 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Darío Javier Cravero: UX your Rubies with a real Backbone ;)
Ranked 61 in Phase 1 with 33 unique views, 12 counted upvotes and 11 counted downvotes
Hector Bustillos: Cutting off the browser fat from your app
Ranked 71 in Phase 1 with 49 unique views, 11 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Robert Jackson: From Monorail to Tri-rail
Ranked 80 in Phase 1 with 42 unique views, 8 counted upvotes and 12 counted downvotes
Darío Javier Cravero: Crafting your own cave: deployments made easy with Mina.
Ranked 83 in Phase 1 with 37 unique views, 6 counted upvotes and 8 counted downvotes
Andrey Deryabin: Rove – efortless Vagrant provisioning
Ranked 72 in Phase 1 with 39 unique views, 8 counted upvotes and 8 counted downvotes
Zachary Scott: Sinatra Prime
Ranked 77 in Phase 1 with 53 unique views, 10 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Juanjo Bazán: Ruby in the Lab
Ranked 76 in Phase 1 with 34 unique views, 7 counted upvotes and 8 counted downvotes
Robert Jackson: Chipping Away at Enterprise
Ranked 78 in Phase 1 with 46 unique views, 9 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Zachary Scott: ⚡ Contributing to Ruby ⚡
Ranked 66 in Phase 1 with 47 unique views, 9 counted upvotes and 9 counted downvotes
Yuki Torii: How Rails helps people understand new idea? - A case study on exporting local culture with Rails application
Ranked 96 in Phase 1 with 34 unique views, 2 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Xavier Noria: I See Your 127.32+, A Tale of Rationals
Ranked 49 in Phase 1 with 51 unique views, 14 counted upvotes and 9 counted downvotes
Julian Fischer: Running and maintaining complex web infrastructures with Ruby and Bosh
Ranked 16 in Phase 1 with 79 unique views, 39 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Benjamin Smith: Hacking with Gems
Ranked 9 in Phase 1 with 75 unique views, 35 counted upvotes and 9 counted downvotes
Jamie van Dyke: It's all about the Motion
Ranked 69 in Phase 1 with 68 unique views, 15 counted upvotes and 21 counted downvotes
Dimitrios Meggidis: Thoughts on w̶e̶b̶ application development
Ranked 91 in Phase 1 with 42 unique views, 5 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Michal Papis: RVM 2.0 A Ruby Environment Manager in Ruby
Ranked 44 in Phase 1 with 67 unique views, 21 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Ken Mayer: Crossing the Refactoring Swamp
Ranked 60 in Phase 1 with 44 unique views, 13 counted upvotes and 12 counted downvotes
Jon Rowe: Minimal Surface Area
Ranked 54 in Phase 1 with 55 unique views, 14 counted upvotes and 11 counted downvotes
Siddharth Sharma: SRP > MVC
Ranked 30 in Phase 1 with 53 unique views, 28 counted upvotes and 12 counted downvotes
Thanasis Polychronakis: Mantri JS Dependency System Extraordinaire
Ranked 95 in Phase 1 with 41 unique views, 3 counted upvotes and 18 counted downvotes
Matthias Günther: Becoming a speaker
Ranked 89 in Phase 1 with 65 unique views, 10 counted upvotes and 34 counted downvotes
Dmitriy Zaporozhets: What we learned from growing our top 50 open source project
Ranked 56 in Phase 1 with 41 unique views, 11 counted upvotes and 8 counted downvotes
Sreekanth Vadagiri: Deploying Rails in Large Scale
Ranked 35 in Phase 1 with 49 unique views, 17 counted upvotes and 7 counted downvotes
Florian Gilcher: Improving the community: contribution without commits
Ranked 70 in Phase 1 with 43 unique views, 10 counted upvotes and 11 counted downvotes
Roy Tomeij: Sass in the Real World
Ranked 75 in Phase 1 with 49 unique views, 11 counted upvotes and 16 counted downvotes
James Williams: Creating Games with WebGL and Three.js
Ranked 88 in Phase 1 with 38 unique views, 7 counted upvotes and 16 counted downvotes
Matthias Günther: Take care of Work-Life-Open-Source balance
Ranked 59 in Phase 1 with 51 unique views, 15 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Clemens Kofler: The Healthy Rubyist – A No-Frills Guide to Refactoring Your Lifestyle
Ranked 51 in Phase 1 with 47 unique views, 18 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Gautam Rege: Pushing Mongoid to the limit
Ranked 40 in Phase 1 with 51 unique views, 17 counted upvotes and 9 counted downvotes
Chris Kelly: Object-Oriented Lessons for a Service-Oriented World
Ranked 53 in Phase 1 with 40 unique views, 13 counted upvotes and 9 counted downvotes
Christopher Bertels: Handling trees with Ruby
Ranked 45 in Phase 1 with 41 unique views, 13 counted upvotes and 7 counted downvotes
Alexey Gaziev: Rails controller action and JS are like brothers now – thanks to the gon gem
Ranked 74 in Phase 1 with 43 unique views, 10 counted upvotes and 12 counted downvotes
Roy Tomeij: Always Be Closing
Ranked 62 in Phase 1 with 60 unique views, 14 counted upvotes and 15 counted downvotes
Michal Papis: How to use RVM: development, deployment, production
Ranked 86 in Phase 1 with 43 unique views, 10 counted upvotes and 20 counted downvotes
Joshua Ballanco: A Tale of Two Rubies
Ranked 65 in Phase 1 with 42 unique views, 8 counted upvotes and 7 counted downvotes
Zachary Scott: The Esoteric Library
Ranked 50 in Phase 1 with 46 unique views, 12 counted upvotes and 7 counted downvotes
Zachary Scott: Escaping Reality With Shoes
Ranked 58 in Phase 1 with 42 unique views, 12 counted upvotes and 10 counted downvotes
Sau Sheong Chang: Ruby, Rock and Roll
Ranked 47 in Phase 1 with 79 unique views, 18 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
PJ: Ruby Groups: Act Locally - Think Globally
Ranked 85 in Phase 1 with 42 unique views, 9 counted upvotes and 16 counted downvotes
Nico Hagenburger: Getting Started with “Style Guide Driven Development”
Ranked 52 in Phase 1 with 43 unique views, 15 counted upvotes and 10 counted downvotes
Richard Schneeman: Concurrency, Caching, and CDNs
Ranked 39 in Phase 1 with 68 unique views, 22 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Shai Rosenfeld: Testing HTTP APIs with Ruby
Ranked 43 in Phase 1 with 46 unique views, 15 counted upvotes and 8 counted downvotes
David Padilla: From Rails to the web server to the browser
Ranked 67 in Phase 1 with 52 unique views, 13 counted upvotes and 16 counted downvotes
Herval Freire: Rubymotion 1-2-3
Ranked 57 in Phase 1 with 78 unique views, 20 counted upvotes and 22 counted downvotes

The following 6 proposals have been withdrawn:

Josh Kalderimis: No one plans for complexity, and neither should you!
Ranked 97 in Phase 1 with 14 unique views, 0 counted upvotes and 1 counted downvotes
PJ: Ruby Groups: Act Locally - Think Globally
Ranked 94 in Phase 1 with 23 unique views, 1 counted upvotes and 2 counted downvotes
Bamboo: Combat Ready Development
Ranked 36 in Phase 1 with 44 unique views, 4 counted upvotes and 0 counted downvotes
LøuisЯøЯ LouisRoR: Complete Overview of the EU RoR Job Market
Ranked 90 in Phase 1 with 24 unique views, 2 counted upvotes and 2 counted downvotes
Ryan Stenhouse: Swimming with The Majestic Sea Creature
Ranked 87 in Phase 1 with 66 unique views, 6 counted upvotes and 13 counted downvotes
Anatol Manoila: Node.Js and Rails 4 - building an app twice
Ranked 93 in Phase 1 with 32 unique views, 1 counted upvotes and 1 counted downvotes