On December 3rd, Ruby and Python developers will gather at DePaul University in Chicago to hear two of the leaders in the Web 2.0 movement debate the merits of each other’s frameworks. Adrian Holovaty, the creator of the Django framework for Python, and David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails framework will answer questions about their work and the future of Web application development.

Brandon from the DePaul LUG has set us up the room:

DePaul Student Center   
Room 314b (third floor)   
2250 N. Sheffield Avenue

Date: Dec 3rd
Time: 2pm to 6pm

This is the short list of tasks that we need to either decide on, or work through:

• Settle on a schedule

• Settle on a theme that the speakers can build their talks around

• "Wrangle" the talent

• Decide if we want food

• Write email advertisements

• Decide if we want to advertise outside of the various email lists

Schedule

Here's a tentative schedule:

• The first 40-60 min will be spent giving two presentations. One on Django and the other on Rails (each by their authors at 20-30 min each).

• Next we'll spend 30-40 min (or shorter) of moderated QA/debate with questions submitted over the Internet (before the event) and some taken from the audience (during the event).

• The final 20 min or so will be left for closing remarks with David and Adrian each offering their thoughts on the future of / state of Web development.

The whole event will take from 2-3 hrs. I'd suggest that we schedule the event for 2 o'clock and actually begin about 2:15 - 2:30. This will give everyone a chance to get there.

Food

DePaul unfortunately has a monolopy contract with Chartwells catering, so any food has to be provided by them. Brandon has volunteered to get us contract information and the menu if need be, but like all monolopies it's fairly overpriced.