Django code sprint

Hi,

Just ran across this,

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/09/updates-from-django-sprint.html

More than 200 people around the world devoted their
time and brainpower to improving the Django Web framework
this weekend, during a scheduled Django coding sprint.

[…]

(I’m behind, I didn’t know Guido van Rossum was a Google employee.)

Have we ever had such large organized Code Fests in the Ruby
or Rails communities?

Should we?

Curious,

Hi,

In message “Re: Django code sprint”
on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:00:05 +0900, Bil K. [email protected]
writes:

|Have we ever had such large organized Code Fests in the Ruby
|or Rails communities?
|
|Should we?

We should. I really love to see the code fest for Ruby. What do we
need to organize developers scattered among timezones? IRC? Skype?

          matz.

Yukihiro M. wrote:

We should. I really love to see the code fest for Ruby. What do we
need to organize developers scattered among timezones? IRC? Skype?

Either plus caffeine. :slight_smile:

Yukihiro M. wrote:

We should. I really love to see the code fest for Ruby. What do we
need to organize developers scattered among timezones? IRC? Skype?
I’m sure I heard of a Rubinius sprint being organised recently…
perhaps they have some tips?

Hi –

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Yukihiro M. wrote:

We should. I really love to see the code fest for Ruby. What do we
need to organize developers scattered among timezones? IRC? Skype?

Caffeine :slight_smile:

David

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

We should. I really love to see the code fest for Ruby. What do we
need to organize developers scattered among timezones? IRC? Skype?

Either plus caffeine. :slight_smile:

Whoops, I stole your joke. 'Twas unintentional. I’m jet-lagged. /me
reaches for the coffee…

David

David A. Black wrote:

|or Rails communities?

David

Paul Erdos: “A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into
theorems.”