Portland is lucky to get so much of the open source world coming through its venues, this week, Labor Day week, being DjangoCon 2014, produced by The Open Bastion.
As per usual, I'm ensconced in the office suite, using Hilton Wifi to perform some tasks in Cyberia.
Today being a holiday, post Burning Man's man burning, and the temple too, I'm also kicking back to watch Little Stewart, Mrs. Swan and other MAD TV offerings. I get my mini-vacations through multitasking sometimes.
At lunch I enjoyed the company of Jeff Tripplett, one of the in-on-the-ground-floor people around Django, a web framework originating from the Lawrence Journal-World and its newspaper culture.
Portia, local like me, and Leah, from Seattle spoke of Angular.js and the morning tutorial. Steve Holden and others joined us later. This is a small conference, which I like.
We talked quite a bit about version control systems as applied not to source code necessarily, but to contracts and legislation. A lot of legal language is about amending this or that, what we call "patching" the code. The gentleman to my left, from Minneapolis, was aware that the practice of using software for version control behind legal contract language was already spreading.
I'm interested in version control software within Quakerism. How might the differing meetings swap DNA around to find the right rules just for them, yet with a family resemblance to the others?
Forking and branching as a managed process makes a lot of sense in this context.
Coming home on the 14 bus, I read Polo's piece in Asian Reporter, about Asians succeeding in mainstream America and needing to maybe adjust to having arrived. He was giving a talk at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) and seeing that as a metaphor for really making it, as an ethnicity and minority -- but then we all qualify in having those attributes (some minority ethnicity, such as "djangsta") in some dimensions.
I know my daughter really enjoyed her high school summer internship at OHSU, doing some pretty serious lab work for a person her age.
