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RubyConf2008 is less than a month away. 500 or so people will attend.

Four years ago in Virginia I spoke at RubyConf. People were always taking pictures of the speaker, so I decided that the speaker should take a picture of the audience.

This (taken with my cell phone) is it:

That’s pretty much everyone attending the conference. That was when you really could know the name of everyone who attended. When almost everyone there was making a living doing Not Ruby work, but banging out a cool Ruby project on the side. When folks hung out in the bar and lobby hacking on Ruby code (and not playing Werewolf) ‘til the wee hours.

Different.