The SD Forum has opened registration for the third annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, to be held April 18-19 in San Jose. While this is a Ruby conference, not specifically a Rails conference, many of the talks are Rails-related.

Christopher and I have been helping out on the program committee, and we’re excited about the list of speakers that the group has assembled. It is likely to be the largest Ruby gathering of the year in the San Francisco/San Jose area.

The speakers range from startups and leading consulting firms to giants Microsoft, IBM, and Sun:

• Tim Bray, Sun: The Rubies in Context
• Alex Le, Friends for Sale
• Parker Thompson, Pivotal Labs: DRYing Up Application Development: Components That Don’t Suck
• Jon Lam, Microsoft: The Borg discovers Ruby and Open Source
• James Lindenbaum, Heroku: Cluster Management with rush, the Remote Ruby Shell
• Tom Mornini, Engine Yard
• Anant Jhingran, IBM
• Jason Hoffman, Joyent
• Joel Dudley, Stanford University: Ruby at the Edge of Biology and Medicine in the Genomic Era
• Ryan Garver, ELC: Ruby features for Open Social Networking
• Blaine Cook, Twitter

The topics span from developments in Ruby interpreters to deploying high-traffic Rails applications. As at any Ruby or Rails conference, many of the speakers are from small companies, but the addition of IBM and Microsoft is worthy of note—clearly Ruby is no longer a fringe language.

We hope to see you there. Conference details and registration.