IRC users invited to support PyCon UK Django sprinters

[Daniele Procida]

At the Don't be afraid to commit workshop at PyCon UK today there were a lot of attendees <http://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/attendance_record.html#pycon-uk-in-coventry-22nd-september-2013> (31 of them).

Many of them said they'd come to the Django sprint tomorrow (Monday 23rd September), which runs 1000-1230 and 1330-1600 UTC+1.

If anyone can be in #django-sprint to help out that would be very nice indeed.

Thanks,

Daniele

[Daniele Procida]

I just want to say thanks to everyone who helped the sprinters (or even just popped in to say hello) on IRC, but especially Tim Graham, who was there throughout the day and really helped make it a success.

It was an excellent sprint. We had 14 people involved, and I think all of them were were first-time Django contributors. Several were people who had very little experience of this at all (many installed Git and set up GitHub accounts for the first time yesterday in the workshop), but today several pull requests were made and merged:

<https://github.com/django/django/commit/c81b6f7b834da8d8fbcf679679ce158173df3a05>
<https://github.com/django/django/commit/98e0453f00958af63b50e70990903eb6a04e1933>
<https://github.com/django/django/commit/6a30075eaa52b3d91665195a34901ac450df5bbb>
<https://github.com/django/django/commit/a53caf28bf2ab29cf4e78a968b3887ddb6d6e83d>
<https://github.com/django/django/commit/41167645b1039067127fa215d4d28296bfa4cfdc>
<https://github.com/django/django/commit/e15f7f31d048ead5453b5ee810235cf88b42b3cc>

there's one open pull request:

<https://github.com/django/django/pull/1662>

and I think a couple more people at least are still working on theirs.

Having friendly strangers on hand in the IRC channels made their first impressions of the Django community a very good one. There was a very positive (and excited, once people started getting close to making pull requests) vibe at our table, and some of the sprinters were beaming with delight after their pull requests were merged.

I was taken aback when I saw how many people had turned up for the workshop on Sunday (<http://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/attendance_record.html#pycon-uk-in-coventry-22nd-september-2013> - over 30 of them), but in fact I think it was the most successful one so far.

Daniele

[Curtis Maloney]

Congratulations on such a successful sprint!

I'm about to run our next HackFest, and know something of how difficult it can be to organise something like this.  I can only hope ours is anywhere near as productive and (I assume) satisfying as yours has been!

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Curtis

Daniele

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[Daniele Procida]

I'm running a "Don't be afraid to commit workshop" at PyCon Ireland. The sprints will be on 14th to 15th October - <http://python.ie/pycon/2013/schedule/>.

Last time it worked brilliantly well having a few active people in #django-sprint. If anyone can be around for the next one, that would be wonderful.

Thanks,

Daniele

[Marc Tamlyn]

As an FYI, I will also be on site for the sprints, hopefully covering some more experienced contributors, and working through some patches I said I'd review (hi Loic!) but haven't yet.

Marc

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