I created a website where I centralize the French speaking events in Chicago.

I really got involved in learning French. I got a “Voila Francais” textbook, a few audiobooks and the Michel Thomas method, then I started meeting people to improve my conversation skills.

I noticed that there is a very rich calendar of events in Chicago. I started attending as many as I could, but I was still missing some because I kept forgetting about them.

I thought, I’m a web programmer by day, let’s put that skill to work for me and for the common good. I found out that the Portland geeks built a Ruby on Rails calendaring application that functions like a wiki. Perfect! I pulled it of github, made it work on my computer (after a few glitches) and deployed in production here: frenchchicago.com. Enjoy and contribute, Internet!