This RubyConf is definitely going to be interesting for everyone interested in Ruby VM implementations, with the morning of Day 2 made up of talks by IronRuby's John Lam, JRuby's Charles Nutter and Rubinius' Evan Phoenix. The release of Rubinius 1.0 planned for RubyConf 2007, as is the release of JRuby 1.1.
For those that can't make it to RubyConf 2007, QCon San Francisco 2007 also features a Ruby track entitled "The Rise of Ruby", hosted by InfoQ's very own Obie Fernandez.
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