Speakers: Jim Baker and Leo Soto

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Conference Chair Robert Lofthouse, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Leslie Hawthorn welcome attendees to DjangoCon 2008.

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Speakers: Christian Hammond & David Trowbridge

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Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, on Django and Google App Engine.

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Speaker: Malcolm Tredinnick

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Speaker: Justin Bronn

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Mark Ramm delivers keynote address: "Building a better framework - A Turbogears guy on what Django should learn from Zope."

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Jacob Kaplan-Moss & Adrian Holovaty answer attendee questions following their "State of Django" Keynote

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Various speakers give short talks on Django and related topics.

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Speaker: Malcolm Tredinnick

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Moderator:
Michael Trier

Panelists:
Simon Willison, Russ Keith-Magee, Andrew Godwin

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Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss deliver keynote address "Django's Future"

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Panelists: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, James Bennett, Malcolm Tredinnick

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Speakers:
Michael Trier & Brian Rosner

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Moderator:
Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Panelists:
Matt Croydon, Michael Greer, Joshua Jag Ginsberg, Leah Culver, Andy McCurdy, Jason Yan

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Moderated by Adrian Holovaty, panelists Matt Waite (St. Petersberg Times), Maura Chace (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Matt Croydon (Lawrence Journal-World), and Ben Welsh (Los Angeles Times) discuss Django and journalism at DjangoCon. Really good stuff here. The discussion ranges from what’s great and not-so-great about Django in a newsroom to the general decline of the newspaper industry to how to get the “pointy-haired bosses” at traditional media organizations to buy into something other than the “pageviews equals dollars” worldview that is helping to destroy serious journalism in favor of photos of Lindsey Lohan. Really good talk.

Moderator:

Adrian Holovaty

Panelists:
Matt Waite, Maura Chace, Matt Croydon, Ben Welsh

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Speaker: James Bennett

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First Core Meeting

For the first time ever, the Satchmo core development team actually met face-to-face. The panels and discussions at DjangoCon made it completely worth my time and money to attend the convention, but even had they not been so useful, the trip would have been worth it just for the chance to meet and hang out with my fellow core developers.

We decided on our “Road to 0.8 release” strategy. We’re going to clean up the code & docs, closing as many tickets as possible in the next two or three weeks. In the meantime, Jag is going to be testing his shiny new Order Admin screens. When he’s ready, we’ll release!

The 0.8 release will be pinned to Django 1.0, making it much easier for us to tell people what version of Django to use. It is getting quite old to have to repeatedly specify “rev such-and-such” to new users on the Satchmo-Users list.

Initial 1.0 Discussion

Following 0.8, we’re going to work on a six-month release cycle, trying to fairly closely follow the Django Project’s newly announced intention to start doing timed releases.

We came up with quite a list of new or modified functionality we’d like to see in 1.0, but the primary driving force is going to be a very thorough and exciting refactor of the Product Model. Our intention is to make it much easier to allow store owners and developers to create products which exactly fit the specific needs of their store.

Speakers: Chris Moffitt and Bruce Kroeze

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Speaker: James Tauber

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Speaker: David Cramer

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Cal Henderson delivered a keynote titled "Why I Hate Django" at the first annual DjangoCon. Django is an open source bsd licensed web framework written in python. Google has posted the keynote in its entirety to Youtube, which you can find embedded above. While the talk is humorous (and takes many jabs at rails developers) it does provide insight into what makes a good web framework. Cal is director of engineering at flickr and is an authority on how to make websites scale. He points out that most frameworks are designed to get projects off the ground quickly, but are lacking when it comes to building an even larger service. He talks about several things in django that need work and improvements that could be made. It’s really an interesting look at what it takes to go big.

Towards the end, Cal notes that django has no mascot, “I could take a framework seriously that had a mascot with magical powers.” well, that seemed to be the easiest thing to fix so avalonstar created django: the web framework for ponies with magical powers. It’s available as wallpaper on djangopony, and ruby legend, _why, has already set about debunking the magic involved.

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