DjangoCon 2013: State of the Pony

Opening keynote from DjangoCon 2013; a review of the last 12 months of the Django project, and a look to the future.

1. State of the Pony Dr Russell Keith-Magee DjangoCon US 2013
5. Image credit: why the lucky stiff
6. The DSF Mission • Support development of Django • Promote use of Django • Protect IP and long-term viability • Advance the state of the art
7. The DSF Mission • Support development of Django • Promote use of Django • Protect IP and long-term viability • Advance the state of the art
8. Conferences • DjangoCon AU/PyCon AU 2013 • Kiwi PyCon 2013 • PyCon UY 2012 • RuPy 2012 • PyArkansas 2012
9. Sprints • November: • Stockholm, Los Angeles, Toulouse • February: • Japan, San Francisco, Utrecht, Kraków, Córdoba • DjangoCon US
10. Other grants • Getting Started with Django • DjangoCon US travel grants • Django Bogota startup capital
11. Grants committee
12. Corporate Members • Amarus Digital Media • AxiaCore • Butchershop Creative • Caktus Consulting • ChrisDev • Codetalkrs • Divio • Elysium Digital • Energy Solutions • Imaginary Landscape • Inoa Technologies • Mediaphormedia • Memset • Microsoft • The Open Bastion • OpenEye Scientific Software • Potato • Readability • Skyveri • Tryolabs • Wargaming.net • Yeti • Yipit
13. The DSF Mission • Support development of Django • Promote use of Django • Protect IP and long-term viability • Advance the state of the art
14. Marketing
15. djangoproject.com
16. Code of Conduct required for sponsorship djangoproject.com/foundation/code-of-conduct/
17. Community Code of Conduct djangoproject.com/conduct/
18. The DSF Mission • Support development of Django • Promote use of Django • Protect IP and long-term viability • Advance the state of the art
19. Copyrights
20. Trademarks
22. Trademark Licensing Agreement
23. Trademark Licensing • Service identification • Django-related projects • Groups and Events • Merchandise • Products and community services • Domain names
24. Trademark Licensing • Can’t claim you are official • Can’t use Django’s font or color scheme • Events must have a code of conduct • Can’t cast Django project into disrepute • Declaration of profits
25. Doesn’t apply to Nominative Use
26. djangoproject.com/trademarks/
27. Exemptions
28. The DSF Mission • Support development of Django • Promote use of Django • Protect IP and long-term viability • Advance the state of the art
29. Django 1.5 • Initial Python 3 transition • Custom User models
30. Django 1.6 • Formal Python 3 transition • Transaction improvements • Persistent database connections • unittest2-compatible Test discovery
31. Django 1.7 • Schema migration • 2013 Google Summer of Code projects • ./manage.py validation refactor • Composite foreign keys
32. Django LTS
33. The Future?
34. The DSF Mission • Support development of Django • Promote use of Django • Protect IP and long-term viability • Advance the state of the art
35. Technical challenges
36. “Real-time” web
37. Rich client interfaces
38. The DSF Mission • Support development of Django • Promote use of Django • Protect IP and long-term viability • Advance the state of the art
39. Social challenges
40. Attracting new users
41. Attracting new developers
42. django-core-mentorship
43. How do we make great ideas happen?
44. Improved development tools and processes
45. Funding open source
46. Where does the money come from?
47. A Django Fellow?
48. Per aspera ad astra
49. Questions? http://cecinestpasun.com russell@keith-magee.com @freakboy3742