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This Week in Django 14 - 2008-03-09

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we talk to Doug Napoleone on of the many volunteers working hard to bring us PyCon 2008 in Chicago. Doug is Software Coordinator and Webmaster for PyCon 2008 and lead developer and maintainer for PyCon-Tech. Doug gives you all the information you need to be well prepared for PyCon this week. We also announce the winners of the Win Cool Stuff Contest and some information on This Week at Pycon.

Please see the Show Notes below for all the pertinent information and links

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Show Notes

Doug Napoleone on PyCon 2008 (2:27)

• Dougma – Doug’s blog.
• PyCon-Tech

Doug is Software Coordinator and Webmaster for PyCon 2008 and lead developer and maintainer for PyCon-Tech.

Doug touches on the following subjects. Lots of great information in the show. If you’re going to PyCon you want to be sure to get the scoop.

1. What’s not new this year.

2. Whats new this year. (Program guide, longer lunches, more lightning talks, vendor booths)

3. Social events (Python Lab, Board games, bag stuffing, Galcon Tournament)

4. Record attendance (And the registration problems we had)

5. Beyond the talks: (Open Space, 5th track (hallway), evening parties, Sprints)

6. Future of PyCon: (what do we do now that we have attendance breaking the 1K mark)

7. Getting there and Getting Home.

8. A brief intro to PyCon-Tech and some of the great hidden gems in there.

Win Cool Stuff Contest (43:38)

We appreciate all the submissions to the Win Cool Stuff Contest. All valid submissions will be recognized on future episodes. Our winners will have the option of appearing on the show to discuss their winning submission.

Watch the winners drawn live

The winners are:

• The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right – Congratulations to Francis Cleary for his submission “Multiple view prefixes”.

• Django T-Shirt – Congratulations to Paul Kenjora for his submission “Adding Custom Actions To Django Admin Change Forms”.

Special thanks go to Apress and Eminent Consulting Group for donating the prizes.

This Week at PyCon (48:34)

For the This Week in Django podcast we will be doing the following:

• PyCon Unwind – Nightly one hour podcasts on our experience of the day. Get three or more other attendees to join us. We will do our best to slap these up on the web every day. If you want to hang out or get in on the Unwind we’ll Pownce it when / where. Free beer—hang out and have fun. We’ll be in the Dorval Int’l from 7PM to 8:30PM.

• Impromptu Chats – Chats with people in the hallways, or wherever, etc…

• Interviews – We are working to coordinate some interviews but since everyone is very busy at PyCon this may or may not happen.

The main thing is we are going to keep thing flexible.

Thank You! (54:26)

• Django.June – an unconference.

• Oebfare – Brian Rosner’s excellent blog.

• django-sqlalchemy – project to integrate Django’s models into SQLAlchemy’s ORM.

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