Tristan Turpin July 13, 2008 at 3:47 p.m.

That's wondeful news, but ...200 attendees ? Only ?

I hope you'll release the batches pretty early, so people from far far away (Norway in my case) will be able to plan a trip.

Dougal Matthews July 13, 2008 at 3:57 p.m.

How nice of you to do it on my Birthday! :)

Empty July 13, 2008 at 4:07 p.m.

Congrats all. I hope I get one of the coveted spots.

Kyle Fox July 13, 2008 at 4:11 p.m.

That's awesome. Hope I can score a ticket!

Chris Hasenpflug July 13, 2008 at 4:19 p.m.

With only 200 attendess, I hope you guys can figure out a way to make the conference available to the rest of us. A live stream would be awesome, but I'd settle for recordings after the fact :)

David Cramer July 13, 2008 at 4:39 p.m.

I'll second what Chris said. Some kind of net coverage would be great for all of the people who can't attend, such as many of the Django users overseas.

Robert Lofthouse July 13, 2008 at 4:47 p.m.

We'll be recording DjangoCon 2008, so don't worry :)

The reasons for limiting the attendees are:

1) It's the first conference and we didn't want to go crazy. Next year there should be a lot more tickets available.
2) It's short notice for a lot of people

We do realise there's a lot of interest, which is why i'm already thinking ahead to both DjangoCon 2009 and EuroDjangoCon 2009. Also, the Django 1.0 release party should be an open event.

susan mernit July 13, 2008 at 4:55 p.m.

Great! When will a list open up? We're starting to use django more and more and want to be there.
--Susan Mernit, People's Software Company

Marc Garcia July 13, 2008 at 5:02 p.m.

I think that if space is so limited, it isn't a good idea to give admissions for free, because some people could get a ticket "just in case", and then don't go, leaving some people that actually wanted to go without a ticket.

I think that just a $20 fee would solve the problem.

Hope to see you there!

Mike Urbanski July 13, 2008 at 5:32 p.m.

Hmm... Would it be possible to get an email alert when tickets are available?

Charlie O'Keefe July 13, 2008 at 10 p.m.

Very cool! Wonder if Google will have some kind of slick App Engine integration ready to announce at the event :)

(I know they have one now, but it's what you'd call a work in progress)

Vance Dubberly July 13, 2008 at 11:55 p.m.

Woo Hooo.... things are starting to roll on very nicely!

Stefan July 14, 2008 at 4:59 a.m.

Just one question: Where can I buy the tickets for EuroDjangoCon2009? :-)

Panos Laganakos July 14, 2008 at 8:38 a.m.

Already got the location for EuroDjangoCon2009... Greece! :)

Snirp July 14, 2008 at 9:48 a.m.

Good news again. With the help of the folks at Google, a live webcast should be a piece of cake.

Quickly put the snakes on a plain to Europe! I'd suggest NL or BE. Is Greece even in Europe? ;)

RobertLofthouse July 14, 2008 at 11:22 a.m.

Well, a EuroDjangoCon is very far off so no details will be confirmed for that and of course there are no tickets as of yet. Though it will probably be in London, unless there's overwhelming opposition.

I'll work on getting some sort of net coverage sorted out, but there's no guarantees.

Chris Heisel July 14, 2008 at 11:30 a.m.

Congratulations! This is some great visibility for such a great project!

Suvash July 14, 2008 at 11:43 a.m.

Wow thas a great news. the first Djangocon.
Django has finally gain a great momentum with upcomming
1.0 release and First Djangocon(NO doubt it was already popular) .
This is what i was looking for.
keep Rocking!!!!

bfrederi July 14, 2008 at 11:45 a.m.

200 attendee limit + free conference will produce a fairly interesting crowd I imagine. I hope I find a golden ticket.

JoelKlabo July 14, 2008 at 12:24 p.m.

I hope I can get one of those tickets :)

Mike July 14, 2008 at 2:15 p.m.

Berlin is the way to go for EuroDjangoCon '09!
Simply because the german capital is a lot cheaper and better accessable for most people.
Take a look at djangopeople.net: most euro-django guys may come from the UK, but if you take the number of german and polish django-devs together you´ve already outweighed this majority. And, as you may know, the polish border is only 1,5 hours away from Berlin.
Also, Berlin is THE european capital when it comes to creativity, art and web start-ups too!
Oh, I live in France btw. ;)

Benjamin Keating July 14, 2008 at 3:24 p.m.

I plan to make it! Whoohooo 1.0!

Bryan Veloso July 14, 2008 at 5:20 p.m.

I. am. so. there. :D Can't wait!

Jeremy July 14, 2008 at 6:13 p.m.

200 tickets + $0 cost - thousands of Django fans = recipe for disaster.

If you give the tickets out randomly, it's going to be "unfair": someone who has contributed thousands of lines of code to Django will have just as much chance of going as someone who just bought the Django book yesterday. So why not make it unfair in a way that selects for the most interested parties, AND brings in money for the Django foundation? In other words, why not auction them off?

No matter what you do, by choosing this venue and organizing things on such short notice, you've already gone and pissed off a ton of people (they just don't know it yet because they haven't been rejected from going). Might as well make some money while you're at it ...

PeterTran July 14, 2008 at 7:06 p.m.

200 attendees at 0 cost is not going to work... :(

Ristretto July 14, 2008 at 8:27 p.m.

Sounds like whining to me. If you get picked, great. If not, watch it on-line, and may be go next year.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss July 14, 2008 at 8:34 p.m.

Jeremy, Peter --

You're right that no matter what we do, with such limited space we'll end up being "unfair" to someone. Unfortunately, logistically we either had to do this *now* or else wait a whole year, and with the limited time came limited choice of space.

We *don't* want to make the conference available only to those with lots of money to burn -- this is, after all, a community of volunteers and enthusiasts -- so making tickets available first-come, first-served is as "fair" as we can make it.

Luckily, all the sessions will be videotaped and made available online, so those who can't come can at least see some of the awesome content we'll have there.

And remember: this is only the *first* DjangoCon; the first of many!

Philipp July 15, 2008 at 1:04 a.m.

+1 for EuroDjangoCon at Berlin

veena July 15, 2008 at 2:43 a.m.

+1 for EuroDjangoCon 2009 in Prague, CZ - Heart of Europe ;-)

Eduard Kucera July 15, 2008 at 5:56 a.m.

+1 for Prague, CZ - Beer for US$1 =)

Mark July 15, 2008 at 10:32 a.m.

+1 for EuroDjangoCon in Prague - Everybody loves Prague :)

Almad July 15, 2008 at 4:36 p.m.

+1 for Prague, everybody was satisfied during last Firebird Conferences ;)

Bjorn July 16, 2008 at 3:56 a.m.

Paris or London are more fit, accessible and central for euroconf :-) .This being said, London's hotel are way too expansive.

Marcin July 16, 2008 at 6:09 a.m.

Just how exactly is London central? :))

Paris is also a bit expensive. Here's one vote for Prague (or Vilnius -- tested last week by EuroPython).

Robert Lofthouse July 16, 2008 at 6:53 a.m.

Remember, central has to be in terms of how easy it is for core devs etc to come over.

I appreciate all the suggestions. Feel free to contact me directly, instead of commenting on here. That process will be easier once the djangocon website goes up.

jd July 16, 2008 at 12:05 p.m.

Most of the django community will end up watching/listening to DjangoCon through our computers via the recorded files.
*Please* make sure that the video (e.g. presenters pointing to code/slides/etc) and the audio (e.g. questions from the
audience) are of good/acceptable quality. Otherwise it becomes a frustrating experience. Thank you and good luck.

Robert Lofthouse July 16, 2008 at 12:57 p.m.

Google will be doing the AV work, so I should think it will be decent quality :) I'll do my best.

Thanks :)

Daniel Spronk July 17, 2008 at 3:45 a.m.

what will the URL of the Djangocon website be?

So it's basically 'first come, first serve' for tickets on the website... keeping in mind there will be 'batches' so a couple of 'first come first serve' moments of ticket sale, right?

Anyways really happy it's gonna happen!

Robert Lofthouse July 17, 2008 at 5:03 a.m.

djangocon.org

We'll announce the dates and times that batches will be made available in advance, after that it's simply a case of getting on and trying to get a ticket at that time.

kalleh July 17, 2008 at 2:38 p.m.

+1 vote for Prague =)

P$ July 17, 2008 at 4:47 p.m.

Very cool! My excitement has been building over this major django milestone.

I'd love to attend, but if I turn out to be unlucky registrant number 201, will there be an online presentation(s)?

Matt Youell July 18, 2008 at 5:09 p.m.

Ok, it's Friday, y'all. djangocon.org is lying there like limp bacon. What gives?

Robert Lofthouse July 18, 2008 at 6:49 p.m.

Sorry, I announced it in a few places: It's been slightly delayed, as I'm awaiting confirmation on something. Should be tomorrow.

Matt Youell July 18, 2008 at 8:44 p.m.

Ok, thanks for the update!

Robert Lofthouse July 20, 2008 at 8:19 a.m.

djangocon.org is now up, so check out the program. I'll be fixing bugs over the next few days and adding more information.

Carlos Yoder July 20, 2008 at 11:14 a.m.

You know, *technically*, Slovenia is the real centre of Europe... So in that case, the beautiful, always welcoming, and cheaper-than-Prague (to some extent) city of Ljubljana could be an attractive venue for an EuroDjangoCon, right?

Right? :-)

Oh well, living in Slovenia for 3 years makes me a little partial, and I'd gladly go to Prague or pretty much anywhere in the continent for a DjangoCon, but it was worth a try ;-)

Michael Schreifels July 21, 2008 at 3:54 p.m.

This sounds *really* cool! Can't wait for the recordings online :)

Beau Haugh July 21, 2008 at 6:26 p.m.

Awesome. I will be releasing some cool Django projects right before then, too. (Right in time to update them to 1.0 a week later!)

This is great news; I hope I can get in.

Simon Litchfield July 21, 2008 at 7:21 p.m.

Sounds good, I'll come over from Australia if I can score a ticket!

Jonathan Nelson August 20, 2008 at 11:22 p.m.

I'm planning a get together the night before DjangoCon for people going to the conference. I figured it would be nice to get to know each other a bit better before sitting in a conference together all weekend.

I'm assuming that most people are going to be staying at the Hotel Avante where the block of rooms was reserved for the conference. So, I've talked to the hotel, and they've said that we can use the patio by the pool for the meetup. We can probably fit about 30 people there.

If a lot more people show up, or if people aren't staying at the hotel, there's a billiard club across the street that's big enough to accommodate a larger group.

I've set up a meetup page for the event here:
http://django.meetup.com/3/

Please RSVP if you're thinking about attending. If the RSVP's fill up, we can move the venue across the street or find some place else.

If anyone else can think of a better place to post this information, let me know. Comments and thoughts are always welcome.

Jonathan

Ryan September 7, 2008 at 5:08 a.m.

Where are the videos? :-(

Ross September 10, 2008 at 7:04 a.m.

My thoughts exactly-- even if they required a donation to the foundation...