Rails Summit Latin America Unplugged

Why unplugged? Well, just like a few other guys on this event (I have counted six on the same situation), I have no notebook, no iPhone, and I was not connected to the Web the four days I get there.

But to be honest, I feel good at the end. Why? Well, I’m a speaker too, and I will never be caught accessing the Web when a presentation is taking place. So, looking this way it was good. I give these fantastic guys my FULL attention.

Stand up: Fabio Kung, David Chelimsky, Obie Fernandes, Phillippe Hanrigou, Dr. Nic Williams and Chad Fowler.

Seated: Fabio Akita, Hongli Lai, Gilberto Mautner, Carlos Brando, Danilo Sato and Luis Lavena.

Stand up: Obie Fernandes, Phillippe Hanrigou, Dr. Nic Williams, Chad Fowler, Chris Wanstrath and Manoel Lemos.

Seated: Carlos Brando, Danilo Sato, Luis Lavena, Vinícius M. Teles and Carl Youngblood.
Laid down: Gilberto Mautner.

Anyway, this event was really really awesome! It will be a mark on Latin America’s Rails Community. Not only Brazil, but other neighborhood countries where present on the audience.

About the 1st day, there were two very short and special moments:

At the beginning when Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy and EnvyCasts bring us a new video about the event. Very Funny ! Thanks to Carlos Brando.

And at the end, another good surprise at the Birds of a Feather session. The name: Elomar França a 17 years old guy from Rio Grande do Norte state, talking about how to create a studying group, on the same style of The infamous "identity 2.0" presentation from OSCON 2005.

Elomar França keynoting and a surprised Fabio Akita.

Good work Elomar !

Ah! And he speaks in Portuguese twice as fast as Dr. Nic does in English !

You can see more photos from Rails Summit Latin America here.

And a Video from the Happy End here.