Django at PyCon

Created: Mar, 31 and last updated: Mar, 31

A wrap up of the happenings at PyCon

Sadly I didn't get to PyCon this year. In fact I haven't ever been to PyCon, just what used to be the "Python Conference" which I think has been overtaken by PyCon.

Looking at the chat and IRC logs makes me realise how many people I know there and wish I'd been able to go. Next year. After being around the Zope, then Plone, then Django communities, it's amazing how many people I knew and how many people those communities touched. 

It also seemed this year that Django was a big component, perhaps due to the uptake in its popularity over the last year. Some links from what I've found:

• Jacob's State of Django talk (pdf)
• James Tauber talks about Pinax (pdf)
• Manfred Schwendinger talks about Google App Engine (pdf)
• Jacob talks about Django's design decisions (pdf)
• Carlos de la Guardia talks about Content Mirror to serve Plone out through Django. Which is exactly what this site is doing. (pdf)
• Django on Jython by Jim Baker and Lee Soto (odp) 

Some of the blog posts I found:

• James Bennett blogs on an ORM panel which included Django
• Alex Gaynor's PyCon wrap up
• Jacob gave a talk on "Real World Django" (which on the live monitoring point I would like to add in Arecibo)

For the sheer humour and gall of standing up in front of an audience and letting anyone on IRC type you have to watch this talk. It's not really about Django and is a bit off towards the end, but Ian Bicking is worth listening too. And the IRC chat is great.

The most important thing though was of course:

• The Django pony going missing
• The pony being held for ransom
• The pony slaying the Pinax team and escaping
• Phew!

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