Thu 18 Jan 2007

linux.conf.au Update

Been enjoying attending linux.conf.au this week, in between a few other commitments.

As I wrote about previously, the conference organisers made a few changes to the traditional schedule this year, moving some of the keynotes to odd days and putting the tutorials in the midst of the talks. By and large, the changes have worked, although for any organiser reading this, I have some feedback to send in tomorrow.

Gave my Django tutorial today. It was not the greatest tutorial I have ever given, but it wasn't too bad in the end. I would have preferred more than just 90 minutes, since giving a real tutorial (rather than just a quick overview) can take some time. Feedback from the audience afterwards (just chatting to people in the afternoon) was positive and it seems like I've encouraged a few more people to take the plunge and see what we're doing in Django land.

For those who attended the talk, I have, as promised, put up the slides and example code. Those slides probably won't make a lot of sense to people not at the talk; I have grown tired of putting everything on the slide and prefer to be able to talk and wave my hands around a bit to get the message across. The tutorial was recorded to DVD, although there was no microphone at my podium, so I'm not sure if the sound carried to the camera microphone. If the video does turn out to be reasonable, I'll post a link here. Nothing really special was presented, since this was a beginner/introductory tutorial, but we had some fun and nobody threw fruit.

Been going mad taking photographs. Some of the more acceptable efforts are now in a Flickr set.

For other photos from the conference, look for the lca2007 tag on Flickr. More blog postings from attendees at Planet linux.conf.au.

Topics: software/django, conferences/linux.conf.au