The Lawrence Connection

The last couple Chirb meetings have been interesting. Somewhat interesting is the Rails focus, but mostly just meeting people from the community. I met Adrian Holovaty at the August meeting. He gave a supplimentary talk to Jake Scruggs' excellent presentation on Streamlined. As the main guy behind Django (a Python framework) his impromptu was an effective Streamlined bodyslam followed by a Ruby/Rails piledriver. (Something about Python made me think of Hulk Hogan who called his biceps Pythons, hence the wrestling speak). The September meeting was even more Railsy because it was given by Marcel Molina a Ruby on Rails committer and a member of 37 Signals.

Talking with Adrian was fun because he used to live in Lawrence, Kansas, and so did I. In fact, the Django framework was developed there. Talking with Marcel was also interesting, and the conversation veered strangely to Lawrence. He seemed to know alot about the town, the university there, and the fact that Django was developed there. I suppose there is no real connection between him and Lawrence, but I'm interested to see who will pop up for the next Chirb meeting. It is turning out to be a real Lawrence party.