# Django code sprint

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 22, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258 "2007-09-22T19:00:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258/1 "2007-09-22T19:00:42Z")

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Hi,

Just ran across this,

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

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258/2 "2007-09-24T16:50:36Z")

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Hi,

In message “Re: Django code sprint”  
on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:00:05 +0900, Bil K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
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.

```

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258/3 "2007-09-25T04:10:58Z")

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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. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258/4 "2007-09-25T08:54:25Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258/5 "2007-09-25T09:04:26Z")

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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 🙂

David

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258/6 "2007-09-25T09:06:26Z")

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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. 🙂

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

David

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/django-code-sprint/115258/7 "2007-09-26T02:32:40Z")

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David A. Black wrote:

> > > |or Rails communities?
> 
> David

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