Join us for our second worldwide sprint
We had such a great time doing that last sprint, so we're doing it again!
We'll hold the sprint Saturday, December 1st here in Lawrence, KS, and virtually around the world. We'll run things much the same as we did last time around.
We plan to devote at least 24 hours of focused work to get some of this done in an organized fashion, and also to encourage new people to contribute. If all goes well on Saturday, we'll probably continue to Sunday.
Anybody can participate and contribute, and there's no obligation or expectation. If you've never contributed to Django before, this is the perfect chance for you to chip in.
More information is available on the wiki.
Most participants will likely be working from their own homes/offices in
their respective countries, but if you'd like to come hang out with us in
Lawrence, email jacob -at- jacobian -dot- org. We can provide
transportation to/from the Kansas City airport (MCI) and can recommend a
good hotel in town. Also, a limited amount of free lodging (i.e. our
couches) is available.
All participants -- not just those meeting in person -- should feel free to add their names to the wiki page.
Posted by Jacob on November 7, 2007
Comments
David Cramer November 7, 2007 at 5:57 p.m.
Kansas is tempting ;)
Daniel Burtescu November 8, 2007 at 1:04 a.m.
Nice to hear this. However this also means that the 1.0 will be released after 1st December. I'm curious if the Django book will be also delayed.
Fredrik November 8, 2007 at 2:48 p.m.
Hmm. I'd like to sign up, but I keep getting "Submission rejected as potential spam" (which is a bit disturbing) or "Too many edits from this IP" (which is just confusing). I've tried different machines on different networks.
Simeon November 8, 2007 at 4:03 p.m.
Hmm. Me too -- just adding my name in the same format as the others results in a rejection as potential spam...
Hugh Bien November 8, 2007 at 5:08 p.m.
Tried to add my name too but got the 'spam' error.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss November 8, 2007 at 7:21 p.m.
If you sign in (you might need to create an account at http://djangoproject.com/accounts/reg...), the spam filter won't bite you.
Benjamin Keating November 9, 2007 at 10:42 a.m.
EXCELLENT! Good to see this happening again. Unfortunately I wont be able to make it this time around. Best of luck -- give us an overview when all said and done. I think this is a great idea.
jane November 10, 2007 at 1:43 a.m.
Looking forward to Django 1.0 and Django book
Johan De Taeye November 13, 2007 at 5:15 a.m.
Are there any specific goals for the sprint?
A good time to merge the newforms admin and/or queryset-refactoring branches?
woot! November 14, 2007 at 2:56 a.m.
re:Jane et al
Just in case anyone missed this:
http://www.jacobian.org/writing/2007/...
:::does the happy "book's gone to press" ::::
Release November 18, 2007 at 3:49 p.m.
Any clue as to when we will see Django 1.0? :)
Captain Obvious November 20, 2007 at 4:47 a.m.
"When it's ready(TM)"
I don't get this fixation some people have on 1.0 ... Reminds me of the way people went loopy for Y2K: the first One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine years? Not Big Deals. Roll over on TWO THOUSAND YEARS??? ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!one!!!eleven!!!
I'm just happy the book will be online and (hopefully) kept more or less in sync.
Daniel November 20, 2007 at 6:10 a.m.
django getting the label 1.0 won't make it any maturer for us, at least for the developers.
however when pitching django towards a client, it not being above 1.0 hurts its perceived maturity and that shouldn't be the case.
we've been using the framework for 2 years and we love it, but we also think its time for a version number to show it's not much behind RoR etc.
coll November 21, 2007 at 6:47 p.m.
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ravi November 29, 2007 at 7:41 p.m.
where can i get all the material of django so as to start programming with it.
Thomas Skaflem November 30, 2007 at 3:48 a.m.
From the subversion repo. Red this page for more information: http://www.djangoproject.com/document...
guest December 5, 2007 at 6:20 p.m.
and then...?
I like django development team update its status on this blog every week as few months ago.
No any news for django make me think this project is almost dead...
I like django very much, I hope this project is more active than RoR.
Thanks.
Jimmy-James December 5, 2007 at 9:29 p.m.
if you think that the Official Django Weblog is the only indication of Django being alive you are very wrong.
Take a look at the results of the sprint and all the commits and all the news on every Django Developer's blog.
Maybe you just need to become more involved in the project in order to notice its status.
guest December 6, 2007 at 12:40 a.m.
After last sprint, the result of last sprint is posted to here.
I don't know where to see the result of this sprint (see commits of svn only?).
I am very grateful to django developers, I just don't know where the information is.
IMO, if I am a django newbie (ok, maybe I am), the only sign to observer or evaluate django is via this official blog.
More active official blog may make more morale for django users or people who is evaluating django.
Thanks.
guest2 December 6, 2007 at 12:42 a.m.
After last sprint, the result of last sprint is posted to here.
I don't know where to see the result of this sprint (see commits of svn only?).
I am very grateful to django developers, I just don't know where the information is.
IMO, if I am a django newbie (ok, maybe I am), the only sign to observer or evaluate django is via this official blog.
More active official blog may make more morale for django users or people who is evaluating django.
Thanks.
Observer December 6, 2007 at 1:36 p.m.
Instead of posting repeated complaints, why not just do like everyone else and look for sprint-related posts on the community aggregator page:
Jack December 10, 2007 at 8:45 a.m.
[Trolling comment removed]
Daniel December 11, 2007 at 1:22 a.m.
you know "Guest" does have a point. There are a lot of people interested in Django who aren't hardcore developers and check the official blog and the version number to keep track of it's development.
On a side note, Amazon let me know the Djangobook shipped to me today, hurray!
s December 11, 2007 at 3:52 p.m.
me too (on the amazon notice)
What was a little tricky, was when I went to "My Account" to check on the ups tracking, and because I ordered that sucker 4 or 5 months ago I think, I had to go searching for it in the order history.
I'm supposed to be learning ruby to start on my company's ruby sites (doing php now), but I just have no interest. Python is my thang.
Philip Lindborg December 12, 2007 at 2:37 a.m.
I totally agree on the point that alot of us mainly check the official blog. It'd be a good idea to keep it more updated. I do contribute to django a bit, but not much more than translations. So mainly, I check the official blog.
guotie December 12, 2007 at 3:31 a.m.
what are you doing these times?
the svn update soooooooooooooo slowly!
December 13, 2007 at 5:12 p.m.
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Brian Rosner November 7, 2007 at 2:56 p.m.
Awesome! Looking forward to this. Last sprint was very successful and fun! It is good to keep these going every so often. It really brings the Django developer community together.