An overview of how Rails Camps started, what they involve, where they happen, why they're fun, how they're evolving.

2. Rails
Camps

3. Pat Allan
http://freelancing-gods.com @pat

4. Ben Askins

5. ... get together a group of rails
developers for a weekend of
building, hacking, and knowledge
sharing in a quiet location out of
the city ...
Ben Askins, March 2007

6. Rails Conf + Bar Camp

7. Less Structure

8. Less Civilisation

9. No Internet!

10. near Sydney, Australia

11. June 2007

16. Where?

17. Australia

18. United Kingdom

19. Denmark

20. Germany

21. United States of America

22. What?

23. ... get together a group of rails
developers for a weekend of
building, hacking, and knowledge
sharing in a quiet location out of
the city ...
Ben Askins, March 2007

24. Rubyists

25. Ruby, Rails, Javascript, HTML,
CSS, Git, Agile and more

26. Hacking

27. Socialising

28. Sharing Knowledge

29. Drinking

30. Werewolf

31. Guitar Hero

32. Stats

33. 35 people at the
first Rails Camps

34. 120 at the latest
Australian Rails Camp

35. Running out of large
enough venues

36. Sells out in hours
in Australia

37. Tickets $100-$200

38. Includes
Accommodation & Meals

39. Volunteer-run

40. Why?

41. Strengthen the Community

42. Australia is remote!

43. Open Discussions

44. Share Knowledge

45. Work together

46. Fun!

47. Rubyists are ...

48. Interesting

49. Curious

50. Passionate

51. Highlights

52. Rails Camp Adelaide

53. Freelancing

54. Rails Camp Melbourne

55. Brains

56. Margate, UK

57. Coding Dojo

58. Rails Camp Maine

59. Werewolf

60. Projects

63. Bananajour

64. Challenges

65. Internet

66. Attendance

67. Gender Balance

68. Future?

69. More Rails Camps!

70. New Zealand!

71. Spain?

72. Rails Camp != Rails Camp

73. Thank You