[http://www.snakesandrubies.com/event/ Snakes and Rubies] was a meeting in Chicago involving the Django team and David Heinemeier Hanson from Ruby on Rails, and had a presentation of both frameworks, and a questions and answers session.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss has created some [http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/jan/05/snakesandrubies/ videos] of the meeting; for people who would like something quick to skim over, I've been working on a bit of a transcript of his main full conference video. (Currently an incomplete one).

It's pretty close to word for word, excluding some hesitations and backtracking, and ever so minimally edited to make the slide references more understandable.

 * [wiki:SnakesAndRubiesTranscript/Introduction Introduction]
 * [wiki:SnakesAndRubiesTranscript/DjangoPresentation Django Presentation] Presentation about Django by Adrian.