July OSUG Meeting
I did my presentation on Django today at the Colorado Spring OSUG. It was the short-talk before Stormy Peterson’s long talk, which was extremely interesting. I can’t believe we got the GNOME Foundation executive to speak at our little meeting!
The most interesting part of her talk was how Nokia ended up creating this ecosystem of open source consultants serving a bunch of different industries and companies.
She also pointed out that open source is a bit behind the curve on cloud computing, which shouldn’t be the case because networking and distributed systems is FOSS’s bread and butter.
I was really impressed, the GNOME Foundation has there stuff together. I’ll post some more about Stormy’s talk after I go through my notes.
The Django talk went off well, a couple of the hard questions were why choose Django (or Rails, or wordpress, or Drupal) for a webframework/CMS, which may make a good topic for a later talk.
There was also a bit of talk on how to scale Django/webframeworks efficiently. All in all it was a great success.