euruko2012/call-for-proposals — pull request #108 by myabc (2012-03-30 20:40:47+00:00)
Title: Corporate invaders: Building a “Operating System” for the Enterprise with Ruby

Joint talk by Pedro Visintin (@peterpunk) and Alex Coles (@myabc)

No. Not Corporate Raiders. Gordon Gekko stays at the door.

Is this you?

- You need to develop a system that automates large parts of your business. Be it selling airline tickets or books.
- You want a system that lets you manage (and evolve) your business processes as easily as UNIX processes, but don't want to write a check to Big Blue.
- You hate the words Corporate and Enterprise, but love working on big, ambitious and technically demanding projects.
- You want to use Ruby.

Based on our personal experiences building a platform for prepaid credit cards, we'll be taking a tour of the components you need to build the perfect “Corporate OS”.