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Does anyone think there is a market for a Philadelphia area, 1 or 2-day Merb conference?

I’ll be the first to admit that my Merb cred is quite minimal. I did a talk on it months ago at Philly.rb but since then, I have barely touched it. I’m seeing great things out of Merb recently, and I feel it has a real potential to overtake Rails as our Ruby framework of choice at Kinetic.

So I’m thinking of trying to organize, or at least get behind, a regional conference all about Merb. The Philadelphia Ruby community is thriving and I wonder if there is an appetite for hearing some Merb talks and, of course, socializing with other Rubyists.

I suppose my next task should be to watch this talk from RubyConf. I skipped it in Orlando thinking I’d never want to organize a regional conference. But perhaps I do…