Django Sprint summary and thoughts

[daonb]

Hi all,
It was a fun day. The room was just the right size, the network was
fast and the people were smart. Food was a little short in the first
part, but at the second part Vadim and Co. more than compensated for
it:

(from IRC #django-sprints)
idangazit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idangazit/sets/72157606782863706/
malcolmt: there seems to be a lot more food and beverage than laptops
in some of those photos.
malcolmt: clearly I've been going to the wrong sprints.

We had some new users who learn Django through the tutorial and some
more experienced users who played with the latest trunk - porting
their projects and documenting the issues found. I wrote down a few
ideas on how to improve the tutorial and started working on a porting
guide for 0.96 users. Meir promised to help so I'm going to hold him
to that. The base for that document can be found at
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges.
We've spent some time on ticket #8175, only to find out someone has
already fixed it. Than we (Meir and Idan) went on to #5192 and after
some IRC chatting decided to make it post-1.0.
Later many more people came in and Meir presented a live introduction
to Django. As part of the presentation, Meir went through building a
'hello world' project, very impressive. Later Udi presented a MindMap
of his BI Django project, one of the biggest project I've seen.
I don't feel like we achieve much django-wise, but we did lay a
foundation for an Israeli user group. To Quote Eli, "..this was less
of a Django experience, and more of a generic Python experience for
me. It's amazing to meet such talented people who are working on some
of the same problems we are."
If you were there (or not :-) and you have any idea on how to improve
django, please reply to this discussion.

Thank to all those who came and to those who supported us for afar,

Benny.

[Ahik Man]

Thanks Benny. It was fun and good learning.

About the next meeting.

I heard some people that like to see more presentation in building up application.
IMHO, the mix was good. One presentation in this style and the other like: what can be done with PyWeb framework (Django...).
I thought that the discussion part will have more participant, but it seems that most of the discussions are made within the presentations (which is a good solution too).


Ahik