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Who's Attending

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:10:30 Z

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Name	Nick	Location	Company	Notes, interests, etc.	Face
Francis Hwang	fhwang	NYC	Diversion Media	GoRuCo Organizer
Jennifer Lindner	jenthefen	NYC	Diversion Media	GoRuCo Organizer
Jesse Chan-Norris	jcn	NYC	Indaba Music	GoRuCo Organizer
Jacob Harris	harrisj	NYC	The New York Times	Just attending
Jacqui Maher	jacqui	NYC	StreetEasy	just attending
Paul Dix	pauldix	NYC	Paul Dix Explains Nothing	GoRuCo Speaker interested in machine learning, information retrieval, NLP
Corey Johnson	probablycorey	NYC	StreetEasy.com	I like to work on my pecs and code
Josh Knowles	joshknowles	NYC	weplay	GoRuCo Organizer
Phil Matarese	.	NYC	Agile Partners	Inwood!
Sebastian Delmont	sd	NYC	StreetEasy.com	Arepa FTW!
Luke Melia	lukemelia	NYC	weplay	My daughter asked me to take notes for her
Trotter Cashion	trotter	Philly	motionbox	just there to hang out
Tammer Saleh	tsaleh	Boston	Thoughtbot	long walks on the beach and metaprogramming
Toby DiPasquale	codeslinger	Philly	Invite Media, Inc.	Generally, I enjoy enjoyable things and tautologies
PJ Brindisi	peterjb	NYC	Indaba Music	Music, robots, musical robots, robotic musicals, lambda
Benjamin Stein	benstein	Brooklyn	Mobile Commons	First Post!
Brian Mitchell	binary42	NYC	Exco Ventures	Rubyist
Vivek Sharma	xsharma	NYC	Engine Yard	Open Source Shill
Carl Youngblood	cayblood	SLC	Confreaks	Happy to be recording the conference!
Dan Demaggio	dmag	Westchester	Looking for Job	Linux Guru, Ruby Hacker
Ben Wheeler	bwheeler	Brooklyn	Independent developer	Collab filtering, serendipity
Eliot Shepard	slowernet	Brooklyn	Curbed	Punk Rock
Chris Kampmeier	kampers	San Francisco	Rupture	Building wings on the way down
Pete Soderling	petesoder	New York	TechSmart	geeks chillin’ – nothing like it
Aaron Quint	quirkey	Brooklyn	Quirkey NYC & Intersect	Looking forward to nerding out
Luc Castera	luc	Washington DC	Dambalah	Attending again since last year was so great.
Cory Forsyth	bantic	NYC	outside.in	ec2, iphone dev, asterisk (ragi)
Peter Jaros	peeja	Red Hook, NY (the tiny town), soon NYC	Maybe yours!	Currently finishing my undergrad senior project, Rubot, a Ruby DSL for behavior-based robotics
Jake Howerton	jakehow	Brooklyn, NY	Sunshine Suites	what needs to be done
Michael Nutt	mnutt	Brooklyn, NY	Lime Wire	ruby-like things
Jarrod Spillers	jtms	LIC, NYC	Sling Media	Ruby, Rails
Barry Burd	bburd	Madison, NJ	Drew University	interesting stuff
Alex Bisceglie	hyperradiant	NYC	Organic	hacking and/or painting

Home Page

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:11:10 Z

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Welcome to the GoRuCo Wiki. You’ll find links to places to stay and interesting things to do here, pictures of the neighborhood surrounding the Pace campus, good places for brunch, great places to get a cup of coffee. There’s also a page for us to post a little information about ourselves.

Who's Attending
Add your name and face to the GoRuCo facebook!

Hotels in Manhattan
Have you not booked your hotel yet? Better get cracking!

Pace Campus Neighborhood

Things to do
Because there is no way you can spend all weekend hacking, can you?

Places for Brunch
No New York experience is complete without BRUNCH.

Great Cafes

Go-ROCK-U

Backchannel: irc.freenode.net, #goruco

Directions to Pace University

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:04:41 Z

The conference will take place at Pace University’s downtown campus, which is easily reached by almost every train that runs in this city: the A, C, E, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, J, M, N, R and Z all stop within blocks of it. We dare you to have difficulty getting there. (No, not really.)

Here are directions, taken directly from Pace’s site:

2 and 3—Take 2 Local or 3 Express to either Park Place/Broadway (then walk east across City Hall Park to the campus) or to Broadway-Nassau St./Fulton St. Station (exit at Fulton and Nassau St. and walk 2 blocks north on Nassau St. to campus).
A and C—Take the A Express or C Local to Broadway-Nassau St./Fulton St. Station. Exit at Fulton and Nassau St. and walk 2 blocks north on Nassau St. to campus.
4, 5, and 6—Take the 4 or 5 Express or 6 Local to the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Station (last stop on the 6). Take exit marked City Hall to street and walk south down Park Row to campus; or walk through underpass to exit marked Frankfort St. and exit to Pace Plaza and the campus.
J, M, and Z—Take the J or Z Express or M Local to Broadway-Nassau St./Fulton St. Station. Exit at Fulton and Nassau St. and walk 2 blocks north on Nassau St. to campus.
N and R—Take the N Local or the R Local to City Hall/Broadway Station, then walk east across City Hall Park to campus.

As usual, the MTA will be performing work on the subway system on the weekend of the conference; the list of service changes is here

Things to do

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:06:56 Z

While in Town…

Go to Brooklyn! Check out ©Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum – “japanese blending of high art & mass culture” aka get your anime on.

Or go for a walk! When in New York you WALK places, believe it or not. Yes, this often includes walking to the subway, but not always. The timeless fact about NYC is you really get to know – and enjoy it – when you walk around.

And get yourself a hot dog while you’re at it. Grey’s Papaya, baby.

Typical NYC experiences

yonah schimmel’s knish bakery, Katz’s Deli, Second Avenue Deli
bagels: H & H Bagels, Ess-a-bagel
pizza: Lombardi’s, Grimaldi’s, Di Fara, John’s Pizza
fancypants: Balthazar, Pastis, ”
sweets: Shake Shack, Treats Truck, Doughnut Plant, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Chikalicious Dessert Bar

Great Cafes

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:47:45 Z

Jack’s Stir-Brewed

Grounded

Think Coffee

Jesse Chan-Norris

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:39:40 Z

Jesse Chan-Norris

jessechannorris.com

Go-ROCK-U

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:17:10 Z

Check out the goruco muxtape. The password is…. goruco. Add a song! Mix it up. Show us who’s boss.

Looking to take the edge off fast? How about a powerful hour.

Pace Campus Neighborhood

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:12:14 Z

Places for Brunch

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:22:38 Z

If You Need Help

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:06:49 Z

This is what the GoRuCo organizers look like – if you need to ask a question, feel free to approach any one of us.

francis hwang:

josh knowles:

shari halter:

stephen schor:

lorgio jimenez:

jesse chan-norris:

jennifer lindner:

bryan helmkamp:

Who We Are

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:00:38 Z

| Jennifer Lindner | New York | Diversion Media |

Hotels in Manhattan

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:45:15 Z

The Mercer Hotel. If you want to spend some serious cash, consider this place. Consistently high marks in every regard. Celebs, too, but ones a rubyist on vacation might actually want to encounter—a George Lucas sighting was mentioned in a Yelp review, for instance.

The Mercer Hotel: http://www.mercerhotel.com/

99 Prince Street
(between Greene St & Mercer St)
New York, NY 10012
(212) 966-6060

Hotel Gansevoort. Boutique, with free wi-fi throughout and wii console and games available in all rooms. Chic, fairly-convenient-to-conference location. ( I live next door. It’s a superb neighborhood, lots to do, but watch out for the rats)

Hotel Gansevoort: http://www.hotelgansevoort.com/

18 9th Ave (at 13th Street)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 206-6700

Tribeca Grand. IStudio rooms, which contain a plethora of apple technology: “Outfitted with the digital pioneer Apple’s latest multimedia technology… marries Apple’s stylish line of digital lifestyle products to the Tribeca Grand’s luxury boutique hotel experience.”

Tribeca Grand: http://www.tribecagrand.com/rooms/istudio.htm

Two Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013
(212) 519-6600

Hotel QT. Swim-up bar in lobby pool with underwater music in midtown. Moderate, modern, chic, free wi-fi, same owner as the Mercer.

Hotel QT: http://www.hotelqt.com/

125 West 45th Street
New York NY 10036
(212) 354-2323

The Night Hotel. Goth, goth, goth, so somewhat silly but then again – it’s a vacation. Let the pidgeons loose. Also in midtown.

Night Hotel: http://www.nighthotelny.com/

135 W 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 835-9600

These Are Powerful Hours

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:49:56 Z

We’re not kidding about that powerful part

That's no moon

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:49:15 Z

Open terminal
Type telnet
Type towel.blinkenlights.nl
Enjoy the show

First of all look at this dog

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:39:24 Z

wait a minute, what?