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DjangoCon US 2023 πŸ‚

2023 DjangoCon US πŸ‚ took place on October 16-20, 2023 in Durham Convention Center in Durham, NC. See the Schedule.

There have been 325 posts and 1652 favourites with the hashtags #djangocon or #djangoconus on Mastodon during the conference.

Great descriptions of what good allies do by @nessita

Last bullet that didn't make the picture: "Not self-appointed: recognized as such by the minorities."

"@EvilDMP, you know who I'm talking about!"

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"My near-term coding is to do way less coding than I have been" --Frank

[applause from @webology]

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If anyone at is interested in getting involved with DSF stuff, please find me today or tomorrow at the sprints. I can help with

- connecting you with a working group you might want to join, or helping you propose a new working group
- writing a nomination -- for yourself or someone else -- for the DSF board
- ... anything else DSF-related you can think of!

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That’s a wrap! Thank you @djangocon for all the amazing talks! Now I just need to catch up on the ones I missed 😜 πŸ‚

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Cheers to @paulox for providing the emergency laptop for @nessita to give her presentation πŸ‚

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Peter Grandstaff is giving closing remarks for the DjangoCon US 2023, in Durham, North Carolina πŸ‚

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"I have a hard time grasping how if I look at Django's survey results, it's one of developers' favorite features in the framework, but it looks like something that's from 10 years ago"

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Peter Grandstaff is giving great opening remarks for the third day of DjangoCon US 2023 πŸ‚

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"I mean I was so happy to be standing in line [at the women's restroom]!" @nessita

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Very timely topic from Daniele today as we close out

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"If you don't quit the browser, you're going to have zombies and the Django browser falls over because of the zombies. Don't do this. I have learned this the hard way."

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On why you shouldn't use celery beat if you don't need scheduled tasks:

"We don't want senior developers getting on you, ok?"

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"I'm sorry that I'm showing JavaScript at a Python-based conference" πŸ‚

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πŸ’Ό We are early releasing our new Django Job aggregator website.

jobs.django-news.com

πŸ”¨ It's more broken than perfect, but we'll be sprinting on it during the sprints.

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@nessita is giving a great summary of Erin Meyer's "The Culture Map" erinmeyer.com/books/the-cultur

Also it's very interesting how being persuasive (persuasivo/a?) can have a little negative connotation in Spanish compared to English

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Peter with the heartfelt call for organizers! Email hello at DjangoCon dot US if you'd like to help out for 2024

Help create "ripples of good," as Peter called it.

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"When there's a woman [in a leadership role], there's a double bind... these confusing roles that are being expected from the other people that are sometimes associated with moms"

It's challenging to meet both the career advancement and likability criteria

"You're starting to be mean or bossy. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say this, bitchy"

That's totally fair to say in this position, @nessita!

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Cool case study: Libyan voter rolls!

They built an SMS-based voter registration system for the Libyan High National Election Commission

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"We have a code word here: if you hear 'flask,' wrap it up." @kjaymiller πŸ‚

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