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Chad Fowler: If you want to come to RailsConf, you should register today. We sold out 400 seats in less than a week. These last 150 seats are likely to go fast.

At RubyConf 2005, David Heinemeier Hansson asked the audience if there was interest in a Rails Conference.  There was some interest, but privately I thought this was a bit too early.  In fact, more than a bit too early, way too early.

It looks like I was wrong.  Way wrong.

The Ruby Conference attracted nearly 200 people to San Diego.  This was reportedly nearly three times the attendance to RubyConf 2004 in Chantilly, Virginia (I wasn’t there).

And Rails is presumably only a subset of the Ruby audience.

According to the registration web site, the conference organizers originally intended to have a tiered pricing scheme: the posted Regular rates, the Early bird rates, and the Super Early-bird rates.  This has effectively been overtaken by demand to be the considerably flatter scheme of Super Early-bird rates and those who wished they could attend.

It looks like with 550 seats in Chicago, they will be at the point of turning people away.

Seeing this, I signed up today.  And those who know me know that I consistently try to keep my options open until the last minute.