Django: The First Five Years

Google Tech Talks
December 17, 2008

ABSTRACT

Join one of Django's lead developers on a ride through Django's history. We'll start in Lawrence, Kansas and look at the birth of Django as a proprietary CMS, follow its progress towards the first open source release, and look at what's changed -- and what's stayed the same -- on the long road to Django 1.0.

Speaker: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Jacob Kaplan-Moss is one of the lead developers of Django. At his day job, he's a software architect for Whiskey Media, one of those newfangled Web One-Point-Oh companies you've read so much about. A good deal of Jacob's work time is devoted to working on Django.

Jacob previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World, a locally-owned newspaper in Lawrence, KS where Django was developed. At the Journal-World Jacob was the lead developer of Ellington, a commercial web publishing platform for media companies.

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[Bartkei]

i like it that they're long

[ghamal]

Stop yar whining and enjoy the freekin FREE info ya mofos...

[edcrypt]

Seriously, this 'code generation' that Jacob talks here makes me proud of my coding ideas.

[csqfzu]

Something good.

[teetante]

It's an interesting display of how the project went open source and the challenges and benefits they overcame.

Of course it also tells oyu a lot about Django but I think the contents are actually very relevant to any software project that's thinking about going open source.

[MalibuKeeper]

Yeah, wish those tech talks weren't so long. Most of the talks could be delivered in 15-30 mins.

[hjnsf]

holy shit 1 hour video