Djangocon 2013

September 2-7, 2013

Conference Schedule

Tutorials take place on Monday Sep 2. The conference proper (talks, shown below) run from Sep 3-5. This is followed by two days of sprint activity on Sep 6 and 7.

General Sessions — Sept. 3, 2013

  Track 1 Track 2
09:00AM

Coffee and Networking

10:00AM

Introduction

Steve Holden, Christophe Pettus & Russell Keith-Magee

10:15AM

Keynote

State of the Pony Report -- Russell Keith-Magee

11:00AM

Morning Break

11:30AM Django and Docker: a Marriage Made in Heaven Ken Cochrane Scaling Your Write-heavy Django App: a case study Tobias McNulty
12:15PM CSS Preprocessors Michael Trythall Trial by Fire: real world performance optimization Joseph Jasinski, Dan Johnson
01:00PM

Lunch

02:00PM Serving More Requests for Less Money: how Django is saving "Ain't It Cool News" Nick Catalano My Bootcamp Brings all the Nerds to the Yard: Lessons from GeekChic Josannah Keller
02:45PM Winning an Election with Django and jQuery Mobile Eric Palakovich Carr Getting Started with Salt Peter Baumgartner
03:30PM

Afternoon Break

04:00PM How to Create Amazing Open Source Modules Kumar McMillan Finding the Needle: Search and Django Ben Lopatin
04:45PM Writing Fast and Efficient Unit Tests for Django Casey Kinsey The Path to Smoother Database Migrations Nathan Duthoit
05:30PM

CLOSE

General Sessions — Sept. 4, 2013

  Track 1 Track 2
08:00AM

Coffee and Networking

09:00AM

Plenary Session

Be Agile, Not Vulnerable -- Jacob Kaplan-Moss

10:00AM

Plenary Session

Transactions for Web Developers -- Aymeric Augustin

11:00AM

Morning Break

11:30AM Red User, Blue User, MyUser, auth.User Russell Keith-Magee MySQL 5.6 Dave Stokes
12:15PM How to Learn Django the Wrong Way Moon Limb 10 Minutes to Replication Josh Berkus
01:00PM

Lunch

02:00PM Building Rich Applications with Django and Ember.js Gabriel Grant Epic South Disasters: or, Why You Actually Need to Pay Attention to your DBMS Christopher Adams
02:45PM Rapid Prototyping and Communicating with Clients Katherine Chuang Everybody Loves Migrations Andrew Godwin
03:30PM

Afternoon Break

04:00PM Small Shop / Big Solutions: Django and Long-Term Thinking Ben Keating Database Sharding with Django Ash Christopher
04:45PM

Lightning Talks

05:30PM

CLOSE

General Sessions — Sept. 5, 2013

  Track 1 Track 2
08:00AM

Coffee and Networking

09:00AM

Lightning Talks

10:00AM Stateless / Immutable Webapps - Stealing Ideas from Functional Patterns Matt ODonnell Making Django Play Nice with Third Party Services Matt Makai
10:45AM

Morning Break

11:30AM State of the Real-time Web with Django Aymeric Augustin HTTP for Great Good Matt Robenolt
12:15PM Guerilla APIs: integrating web systems that weren't designed to be integrated Russell Keith-Magee Django Toolsets: what are they buying you, what are they costing you? Eli Ribble
01:00PM

Lunch

02:00PM Take My Money: an Intro to Charging for Things with Django Gabriel Grant Denormalize All the Things! Nathan Duthoit
02:45PM Overcoming Troubles with Class-based Generic Views Andrew Pinkham Integration and Functional Testing with LiveServerTestCase, Selenium and More Julien Phalip
03:30PM

Afternoon Break

04:00PM

Awards and Wrap-up

04:15PM

Sprint Planning

05:15PM

CLOSE