DjangoSki Registration is now open

Thu, 03 Dec 09, 22:56:47 filed in Django

Registration is now open for DjangoSki. Early bird tickets are on a simple first come, first served basis and registration is here.

With our three keynotes set up and all the hairy contracts signed away, all that's left for us to do is plan the rest of the conference. And let it snow, snow and snow so that we've got a good base of snow ready for the conference.

The next date to worry about is in about 3 weeks time, which is the deadline for any scheduled talks. We've got a couple of interesting case study talks lined up and still looking for some good introductory talks eg: Introduction to Django, Pinax, Django-CMS and so on.

Been putting quite a few posts about DjangoSki up, sorry about that. It's very exciting for me and been quite a bit of work. Normal business of ignoring the blog and going back to Twitter will resume shortly.

Matt Berg keynote, call for speakers for DjangoSki

Wed, 02 Dec 09, 23:53:42 filed in Django

For our final keynote I'm pleased to say that Matt Berg will be speaking at DjangoSki.

Matt Berg is the ICT Coordinator on the Millenium Villages Project at Columbia University. As part of that project he's been building technical systems in developing countries. He's involved with RapidSMS and projects include work in Kenya, South Senegal, Malawi and Rwanda that help children with malaria and malnutrition. And it's all using open source software and Django.

Not only does Matt do interesting work that is helping people right now, but he passionately believes that he can use Django and other technologies to make a difference. His passion and dedication is infectious, as you'll find out.

We have room for other speakers at the conference, so we'd like to call for other speakers to submit proposals to speak at the conference. Please apply here or see details here.