DjangoCon Keynotes Announced

DjangoCon Keynotes Announced

Keynotes by Open Source authority Geoff Schmidt of the Meteor web
framework; Eric Sterling, president of the Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation; and Selena Deckelmann, major contributor to PostgreSQL

Washington, D.C. Aug., 20th, 2012 - DjangoCon, the official
conference, tutorials and sprints of The Django Software Foundation
(DSF), today announced the keynote presenters for DjangoCon North
America.

This year's event takes place 3-7 September 2012 at the
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Washington D.C.

The conference, themed "the Django community and ecosystem," showcases
an array of tutorials, two tracks of talks over three days, lightning
talks and a development sprint on topics such as creating dynamic
applications, debugging live python web apps, internationalization,
PostgreSQL and design tips. Keynote addresses will be presented by:

Eric Sterling, Topic: Welcome to Washington: The challenge of building
"platforms" for political power and change – Tue., Sept. 4th, 09:15am

Keys to fighting political fatigue are belief in political power and
knowledge of actual government operations. If knowledge is power, then
the amount and nature of exposure of government data is crucially
important. To what degree can Django empower application developers to
consume this data in an intelligent and cognizable way? Moreover, can
consumption mechanisms at the framework level actually influence
government agencies to expose data more transparently? This is what
Eric Sterling, president of The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation will
encourage his audience to think about.

Geoff Schmidt, Topic: Data on the Wire: An Extinction Level Event for
Web Frameworks– Wed., Sept. 5th, 10:15am

PC software displaced mainframes; the web displaced PC software; now
HTML5, JavaScript, and Cocoa threaten to drive LAMP-stack derivatives
like Django to extinction. The apps of the future must be written in a
radically different way. Meteor is a new web framework that automates
nearly the entire process of writing a so-called "thick client"
application. Geoff Schmidt, a principal developer of Meteor, will share
insights from Meteor's design that could benefit Django and discuss how
Meteor and Django can work together to build the real-time APIs of the
future.

Selena Deckelmann, Topic: While we're here, let's fix computer science
education – Thur., Sept.6th, 10:15am

Selena Deckelmann a major contributor to PostgreSQL, open source
advocate and a fan of @feministhulk will be talking about the state of
computer science (CS) education. Recent statistics predict that by
2017, 50% or more of jobs in STEM (science, technology, engineering and
mathematics) disciplines will be computer-related. But enrollment in
computer science is dropping and standards for education are
inconsistent and limited. Selena will tell her audience why this is
relevant to all developers and what they can do to support a reform at
the federal, state and local level.

“We have assembled an exciting set of keynote speakers and a diverse
and interesting program for attendees of this year’s DjangoCon,” says
Russell Keith-Magee, President of the Django Software Foundation. “Our
goal is to make sure every community member can share ideas, work
together, and returns with valuable knowledge to help them in their
job.”

To view the complete DjangoCon schedule, visit
http://staedelcomms.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f7....

DjangoCon/Community Sponsors include: New Relic, CMG Digital, Caktus
Consulting Group, Jet Brains, Imaginary Landscape, WebCube, CACI, Lab
305, Git Hub, Mozilla, Tryolabs. For further information on
sponsorships, visit
http://staedelcomms.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f7....

The conference is organized by Steve Holden's
The Open Bastion, a Holden Web subsidiary specializing in open
source themed events and conferences. This year's keynote chair is
Justin Holmes of SlashRoot Tech Dojo in New Paltz, NY. The program
chair is Sean O'Connor, partner and developer at SaaSpire.

About The Django Software Foundation (DSF)

The Django Software Foundation (DSF) is 501(c)(3) non-profit that aims
to promote, support, and advance the Django Web framework. It does this
by sponsoring events, coordinating activities, and defending the
intellectual property of the Django community. The membership of the
DSF is drawn from the community that has contributed to Django itself,
as well as industry representatives who have an interest in the
long-term future of Django. For more information about the goals and
activities of the Django Software Foundation, visit
http://staedelcomms.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6f... or email
foundation@djangoproject.com.

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