Spreading the word in Europe
We've been busy spreading the word about Django in Europe.
Simon Willison did a presentation at the European Ruby on Rails conference in London, titled "Cross-pollination: tricks Rails users can learn from Django." By all accounts, it was well received, and it seems some of the Rails fans in attendance experienced the light-bulb effect of "Wow, this is really cool -- I should check it out!" (I'll try to see whether Simon can post his slides.)
Last week, I presented Django at O'Reilly's EuroOSCON conference in Brussels. There were plenty of good questions, and people who hadn't yet used the framework seemed excited to try Django out. (No slides are available, as I did a live demo.) We had the privilege of meeting several Django users throughout the conference. Also, Simon presented the Yahoo User Interface Library and I had the honor of doing a short keynote.
We also got a chance last week to meet with some Django users in Rome. Thanks for the hospitality, Nicola and Francesco!
Posted by Adrian Holovaty on September 25, 2006
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Riklaunim September 25, 2006 at 4:55 p.m.
In the next 24-48h a Polish django "support" will be up so more Europe djomination will take place :)
Djang September 25, 2006 at 8 p.m.
Spread the good word. Django has recently been added to the course of DePaul University :) Spreading the word on college campuses helps a lot.
Roland September 26, 2006 at 1:50 a.m.
@Jan:
Yes, Me.
I'm making my first steps in Django.
Nicola Larosa September 26, 2006 at 3:33 a.m.
Thanks to you and Simon, Adrian. It was a pleasant night. :-)
Arnaud September 26, 2006 at 4:53 a.m.
Another Belgian Django user here !
Dan September 26, 2006 at 9:42 a.m.
Nice try... we all know that "Belgium" doesn't really exist!
vincent September 26, 2006 at 12:50 p.m.
Hello Jan, I'm a Belgium Django fan (one of my realisation is djPhoto: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Dj...)
Francesco September 27, 2006 at 2:19 p.m.
Thanks to *you*, Simon and Adrian...
SuperJared September 27, 2006 at 4:36 p.m.
Don't forget to update the archive list of months on the right, guys.
Phil September 28, 2006 at 4:21 a.m.
@Jan: Yup, another Belgian django user here - only used it for internal and administration projects though. Very pleased with it, but found error reporting often very confusing.
Pim September 28, 2006 at 8:26 a.m.
One more Belgian user here, I was at conference too, great talk!
shevek October 5, 2006 at 6:10 p.m.
In Spain we have a recently created list at <django-es@googlegroups.com> and have a growing interest in Python too!
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Jan September 25, 2006 at 4:27 p.m.
A django presentation in Brussels? I wished I knew, it's only a 30 minute train ride from here.. (altough I probably couldn't afford it anyway as a student)
Are there any Belgian django users here?