Frank Wiles is President of Django foundation!

[Paul Johnson]

Dear KULUA

Is this list still active? How is everybody?  You students leave and
hardly ever write back!

This week I was in KC at a company called Adepto Medical.  They need
some help setting up a database-backed record keeping system.  If you do
consulting, maybe you'd be interested in talking to them.

I had in the back of my mind that a student had made a presentation
about a Python web framework called Django. Its a standardizing
framework that gives standard names and labels for the fine-grained work
we'd have to do if we were writing with PHP, database, and CGI.  Handy! 
Yesterday I did some checking to recover some memories and what do I see
in their web page?

Our friend Frank Wiles is, well, all about Django these days. President
of their foundation. Awesome to see a familiar name after all these years.

I realize this sets a very high standard for the rest of you.  If one of
you crops up as the President of the BASH Foundation, I will be impressed.

pj

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[Jeffrey Watts]

Hey Paul!

Still around.  Doing Linux system administrator work for a proprietary stock trading firm here in KC.  I get to work on low latency computing, Hadoop, Ceph, other cool things.  The list hasn't been active in a while, probably because most of us aren't working so much on "Linux" specific things any more.  Everyone's using Linux now (yay victory!), so most folks are more interested in learning about more specialized things.

Anyhow, glad to see you're still around.

Jeffrey.

P.S.  For Frank:

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/djangounchained-150331085543-conversion-gate01/95/lo-nuevo-de-django-17-y-18-3-638.jpg

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[David Nicol]

I'm still here too; making a career of parsing X12 EDI for a 3PL and still hoping to launch the tipjar marketplace business now that the world (or a practical subset thereof) has gotten its head around the pioneering work of the alleged Satoshi Nakamoto.

My latest work-in-progress stunt is a 3-d Go board

 http://diamondcubic.nevermeta.com/Gameboards/ToothpicksAndTetrahedrons.html

Anyone good at threejs feel like helping with it?

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[Dr Ada]

I managed to grow up while staying out of jail and moved into industrial automation control.   

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I'm out here in SF and Linux is still in heavy rotation in my life. Maybe we should add another K to KULUA for Kubernetes!

Hopefully there is another Meetup at some point that I could attend.

Congratulations Frank!

Arron

[Tim Gruen]

I am working out of Oklahoma on a project in Bangladesh doing network security using Linux. It is a great project that i am happy to be part of!

Congratulations to Frank as well!

Tim

[Adrian Griffis]

I'm still around. I'm a consultant in the Kansas City area. I was never a student at KU. I found KALUA while looking for Linux user groups in the Kansas City area. It would be good to see some of you, again, although my schedule is not as flexible as it used to be. 

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And a lot of people have transitioned to Facebook groups for social networking.  But as Jeffrey says. Less need for a local Linux group these days. 

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[Matt Linzer]

If anyone is looking for a local group, we meet at the Lawrence Library the third Saturday of each month:

https://www.meetup.com/Lawrence-Linux-User-Group/

Also on freenode at #LawrenceLUG if anyone wants to hang out.

Thanks,

Matt Linzer

[Nick Anderson]

I am also still here in Lawrence. Work from home in open source,
using
Linux all the time.

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[Kit Peters]

Perl hacker for H&R Block over here. Just put Elementary Linux on my new-to-me laptop, and i'm enjoying it so far. Still running Ubuntu on the desktop and my old laptop.

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[Frank Wiles]

Hi Everyone! 

Way late reply here as I don't check through my mailing list folders as well as I used to! 

Yep DSF President for the last few years and probably the next few years if they'll keep having me. And yes my company focuses primarily on Django based web apps, but we do a lot of scaling work with Kubernetes as well. 

Rebuilt and migrated Politifact.com recently to newer Django, removed a bunch of legacy cruft, and drastically cut their infrastructure costs with proper use of CDNs and caching.  They ended up live fact checking the State of the Union and got as much traffic in 2 hours as they normally do in a month and k8s handled it just fine, not even a blip. 

Still here in Lawrence, office downtown, just now with far more kiddos and way less hair! 

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