Keynotes¶
David Eaves¶
- Professional negotiator
- Professional speaker
- Good, positive message
Russell Keith-Magee¶
- President of DSF
- Django core dev
- Presenting on Django Software Foundation
Organization of the DSF¶
Board members¶
- Russell Keith-Magee
- Adrian Holovaty
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Dan Cox (president of Mediaphormedia)
Officers¶
- Treasurer: Joseph Kocherhans
- Secretary:
Committees¶
- Infrastructure
Developer Members¶
- Contributed to Django in a material fashion
- Admissions approved by the board
- Can be anyone “sufficiently material”
- Members can nominate new board
Corporate Member¶
- Small: $500/year
- Medium: $1000/year
- Large: $500/year
Idan Gazit¶
Title Designers make it go to eleven
- Benevolent Designer for Life of Django
- BDesignerFL
- Took the role in Spring of 2011
Compromise is the soul of design¶
- You can’t get everything you want
- You have to make choices
Usability Stuff¶
- Color charts
- chunking 8001234567 vs 800-123-4567
Audience¶
- who
- what
- why
- where
Critical issues that hurts Django in regards to designers¶
- Python on windows is a problem
- local setup
- project templates - some basic architecture layours
- deployment has been a pain point
- trac is sucky
Glyph Lefkowitz¶
Title: Why does Django hate Python
Note
Trying to follow Glyph in notes is probably going to fail. He is that awesome
- Started with prose
- I come to bury Python, not to praise it
- “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” - Fred Brooks
- “Over the centuries native Americans came up with sign languages. Developers have a zillion languages” - Alan
- “Systematically identify top designers as early as possible” - Fred Brooks on getting a software architect in place
- Give in to your hate - Glyph on hating things that aren’t Python