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<p style="line-height:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#666666;font-family:Arial">The Ruby Community in India, together with the Innovation & Technology Trust, is pleased to announce <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">RubyConf India 2010</span></font></b></strong> on <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Mar 20, 21</span></font></b></strong> at the Royal Orchid Hotel, Old Airport Road, Bangalore.</span></font></p>
<p style="line-height:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#666666;font-family:Arial">This dual-track event will feature prominent speakers like:</span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#666666;line-height:15.75pt"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Yukihiro Matsumoto “Matz”</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"> - the creator of Ruby himself will deliver a talk via video-con </span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#666666;line-height:15.75pt"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Chad Fowler</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"> author of “The Passionate Programmer” and “My Job Went to India” </span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#666666;line-height:15.75pt"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Obie Fernandez</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"> author of “The Rails Way” </span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#666666;line-height:15.75pt"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Ola Bini</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"> core-committer to JRuby since 2006 </span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#666666;line-height:15.75pt"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Ivan Porto Carrero</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"> core-committer to IronRuby </span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#666666;line-height:15.75pt"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Nick Sieger</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"> of Engine Yard and JRuby fame </span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#666666;line-height:15.75pt"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial">Arun Gupta</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"> lead developer on GlassFish </span></font></li>
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<p style="line-height:12pt;text-align:justify"><font face="Arial" color="#666666" size="1"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#666666;font-family:Arial">Ruby is an OS dynamic language that offers an ideal development environment for <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Agile</span></font></b></strong> practitioners. It has one of the most active open source communities worldwide which produces and supports tools and projects like <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">Ruby on Rails</span></font></b></strong> - a powerful web application development framework that works well on different platforms, and significantly <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">reduces time-to-market</span></font></b></strong> and <strong><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">operating costs</span></font></b></strong>.</span></font></p>
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