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MerbCamp, the first official gathering of the Merb community which will take place October 11-12 on the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus.

Starting October 8, Merb core team members will be on the ground in San Diego to put the final touches on the Merb 1.0 version planned to be officially released during MerbCamp.

The program is pretty exciting, Keynotes from Engine Yard co-founder and Merb’s creator, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, as well as Merb developer and maintainer Yehuda Katz.

MerbCamp is a mix of between a conference and an un-conference. An official track is schedule dcovering topics like: Merb new router (v1.0), Merb Slices, properly testing the Merb Way, Deploying a Merb app, DataMapper, Sequel, CouchDB, learning from Django etc… Other tracks will be open for impromptu talks given by participants.

Don’t miss out on a great opportunity to discover a powerful framework, enjoy an awesome BBQ at the beach and meet the people behind Merb! (plus you will be able to say: I was there when Merb 1.0 was released! ;))