New Django Seattle Website

Thanks to 14 Sprinters who came together on July 25, we now have a Django Seattle Website at http://www.djangoseattle.org

There was a lot of infrastructure work done at the sprint which is still in development and didn’t make it to the live site yet – but the experience of getting to know each other, and learning/sharing Django knowledge was another fine Sprint accomplishment.

Here’s a brief summary of what people worked on:

• Integrated in Blogging, Profile and Calendar functionality from django-basic-apps. Initially Pinax was explored, but had a lot of dependencies and seemed better for creating specific sites genres, but was challenging to incorporate into our existing site.

• Created a Twitter portlet that shows live #djangoseattle Tweets.

• Setup Flatpages for core content, and creating a database-driven menu

• Created a logo and initial site design and templates

• Setup Django on live server

• Used the Django Debug Toolbar while developing the site

• Some were playing with Django for the first time

• Some floated around to help diagnose problems and help those new to Django

Thank you Sprinters

Our sprinters (in alphabetical order) were: Andrew Beyer, Jon Callahan, Jesse Franceschini, Doug, Brian Gershon, Johann Heller, Paul Pham, Micah Ransdell, Leo Shklovskii, Trevor Smith, Jesse Snyder, Alex Tokar, Ragan Webber, Ben Wilber

Thank you Sponsors

Also a Big Thank You to our sponsors, hosts and organizers.

• Jon Callahan at Mazama Science treated all 14 of us to a tasty PCC Natural Markets lunch, coffee, drinks and snacks.

• Michael Kim at Grapevyn brought in Top Pot Doughnuts.

• Paul Pham hosted us at his coworking space Office Nomads which was a great place to have a sprint.

• Leo Shklovskii at Evoworx and Brian Gershon at Web Collective had a great time organizing the sprint.

We look forward to our next sprint!