Tales From the Django Circus

Presentation I gave at the Budapest Django meetup on May 29th 2013.

Transcript

1. Tales From the Django Circus A short summary of Djangocon Europe 2013
2. About Me Baptiste Mispelon (bmispelon) Started going to tech conferences last year. Currently doing web development with python/django at M2BPO.
3. Django Circus? The name of the 2013 edition of Djangocon Europe.
4. What's Djangocon? Tech conference about our favorite web framework. US, EU, and AU Edition (new). Moves around (Amsterdam, Zürich, Warsaw). Run locally by volunteers from the community.
5. Djangocon Europe 2013 Warsaw, Poland May 15-19
6. Location
7. Location
8. Who? More than 300 participants. From all over the world.
9. Who?
10. Who? Including 5 Django core developers: • Florian Apolloner (Austria) • Aymeric Augustin (France) • Andrew Godwin (United Kingdom) • Russel Keith-Magee (Australia) • Honza Král (Czech Republic)
11. What? 31 Presentations Dozens of Lightning talks 2 days of sprints And also...
12. Hammocks
13. Delicious Polish Food
14. Improvised Group Chats
15. Free Pop Corn
16. Cupcakes!
17. Circus Acts
18. DJs
19. Impromptu Rock Concert
20. Mosh Pits
21. Djangstas!
22. The presentations Ranging from technical to inspirational.
23. Lynn Root Introduce Django to your old friends How to make Django work with Kerberos authentication system.
24. Peter Inglesby Advanced Python through Django: Metaclasses How Django uses metaclasses.
25. Amjith Ramanujam Thread Profiling in Python How to write a thread profiler for your Django app.
26. Craig Kerstiens Getting past the Django ORM limitations with Postgres Tools and techniques to make use of the full power of Postgres with Django.
27. Steve Holden The Advantages of Diversity Why having a diverse community makes us stronger.
28. Zed Shaw The Imaginative Programmer Breaking out of stereotypes and embracing your imagination.
29. Brandon Rhodes Keynote How Copernic refactored astronomy.
30. Aymeric Augustin Enterprise Django: transactions for web developers Description of the new database transaction model in Django 1.6.
31. Andrew Godwin Migrating The Future Getting South into Django core.
32. Jacob Burch Having Your Pony and Committing It Too How to contribute to Django.
33. And Many More...
34. Sad to have missed these? All the presentations will be available online for free. Checkout pyvideos.org in the next few weeks.
35. The sprints 2 days of working on Django, surrounded by other developers. Free food, drinks, electricity, and internet. Open to everyone, from beginners to experts.
36. The results Biggest Django sprint ever. More than 200 participants. More than 100 commits to Django.
37. TLDR: Conferences are awesome A great way to keep up with the technologies you work with. You get to meet the people who write the software you use every day. More importantly, you get to have fun and make new friends.
38. Convinced yet? Djangocon Europe: May/June 2014, French Riviera Djangocon US: September 2013, Chicago, USA Djangocon AU: July 2013, Hobart, Australia
39. Too far? Can't wait for next year? Europython: July 1-7, Florence, Italy RuPy: October 11-13, Budapest Your own event: ???
40. Shameless Plug RuPy Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Closure. Biggest open-source conference in the region.
41. Wanna help? We're looking for "Buddies". Help out our international speakers around Budapest and get a free pass to the conference. Up for it? Come say hi: hello@rupy.eu
42. Conclusion Go to tech conferences, they're awesome!
43. Questions? Photos taken from http://www.flickr.com/groups/2174519@N25/pool/