Just thought i would add a a name to this thread.<br>
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Brandon Griffis <a href="mailto:bgriffis@students.depaul.edu">bgriffis@students.depaul.edu</a> -- Brandon is the president of the depaul linux group. <br>
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Depaul linux group has their weekly meetings at the depaul lincoln park
student center. See their web site at <a href="http://linux.depaul.edu">linux.depaul.edu</a> for a
schedule of the talks that are planned for the upcoming weeks.<br>
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~Russ<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Bicking</b> <<a href="mailto:ianb@colorstudy.com">ianb@colorstudy.com</a>><br>Date: Oct 13, 2005 12:34 AM
<br>Subject: [Chicago] Python/Ruby/Web meeting<br>To: Michael Saia <<a href="mailto:mikesaia@msn.com">mikesaia@msn.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:ryan.platte@pobox.com">ryan.platte@pobox.com</a>, <a href="mailto:david@loudthinking.com">
david@loudthinking.com</a>, <a href="mailto:adrian@holovaty.com">adrian@holovaty.com</a>, <a href="mailto:chicago@python.org">chicago@python.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ws@johnwlong.com">ws@johnwlong.com</a><br><br></span>Hi Mike. I'm being a very bad organizer, and doing a bad job of keeping
<br>on top of everything. *But*, there's lots of other people involved, so<br>in the interest of moving this along I'm copying everyone to open it up<br>a bit...<br><br>The people:<br><br>Mike Saia <<a href="mailto:mikesaia@msn.com">
mikesaia@msn.com</a>> is with the DePaul Computer Science<br>Society, and they are interested in sponsoring a special meeting, around<br>Rails, Django, Python, Ruby, agile web development, etc.<br><br>David Heinemeier Hansson <
<a href="mailto:david@loudthinking.com">david@loudthinking.com</a>>, author of Rails, guy<br>to do talking. He's coming to live in Chicago, and has said that early<br>December would probably be a good time.<br><br>Adrian Holovaty <
<a href="mailto:adrian@holovaty.com">adrian@holovaty.com</a>>, author of Django, another talking<br>guy. His schedule is fairly open.<br>
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I've seen the talk he gave on django, very interesting web framework. <br>
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Russ: Yes, I was there too and indeed it was an interesting web framework.<br><br>John Long <<a href="mailto:ws@johnwlong.com">ws@johnwlong.com</a>>, head of the Ruby Meetup group in Chicago,<br>interested in helping organize. Also in that group is Ryan Platte
<br><<a href="mailto:ryan.platte@pobox.com">ryan.platte@pobox.com</a>>.<br><br>Chicago Python group (ChiPy) <<a href="mailto:chicago@python.org">chicago@python.org</a>>. There's a bunch of<br>us, and somehow half of us our out of town, having babies, or otherwise
<br>occupied right now, so we've actually cancelled the October meeting.<br>But besides this odd concurrence of otherwise-occupiedness we're pretty<br>active. Some of the other people who have been active in organizing:<br>
Michael Tobis, Chris McAvoy, Brian Ray, David Rock... just to name a few.<br><br>Anyway, this is the cast of characters. We're not exactly event planners.<br><br>Some initial thoughts we've had:<br><br>* Given enough lead time (which we'd have for a December event) we think
<br>we could get a pretty good audience. For instance, we were thinking<br>about trying to get Slashdot to post something asking for questions for<br>the event. A bit of publicity, open up questions ahead of time, and so
<br>forth. And the blog world loves these things. 100 people perhaps? But<br>I have no idea.<br><br>* Food... I don't know. If it's a problem, we certainly don't need<br>food. If it is an after-work event, though, food can be nice.
<br><br>* I think audio equipment of some sort would be useful, this could<br>certainly turn into a podcast or something. I don't think visual<br>equipment is as important; I don't know if we'd have any slides or<br>anything. I doubt it.
<br><br>* Topic-wise, we're thinking "agile web development". There's also<br>possible language discussions, though comparing and contrasting Python<br>and Ruby might be a little too detailed a conversation, with less
<br>relevence to people who aren't using either.<br><br><br>Sorry again for not being more responsive. I'm heading on vacation, so<br>I won't be able to follow up for another week, but I'm hoping the other<br>people involved can do better.
<br><br>--<br>Ian Bicking | <a href="mailto:ianb@colorstudy.com">ianb@colorstudy.com</a> | <a href="http://blog.ianbicking.org">http://blog.ianbicking.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chicago mailing list
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