DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Marketing for Developers
Speaker: Tracy Osborn
Marketing is hard.
Marketing is no fun.
Marketing takes a lot of mental energy.
Marketing is necessary and worth it.
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Navigating unconscious bias
Speaker: Anna Schneider
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Planet friendly web development with Django
Speaker: Chris Adams
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Lightningtalks pt 1
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Qualities of great reusable Django apps
Speaker: Flávio Juvenal da Silva Junior
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Serverlessness - augmenting your Django apps with Functions-as-a-Service
Speaker: Tom Dyson (Wagtail)
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Radio Free Django - Building a radio station on Django
Speaker: Mark Steadman
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Staying DRY(er) when working with Django and frontend frameworks/libraries
Speaker: Emma Delescolle (co-author of drf-schema-adapter)
There is drf-schema-adapter. It provides you with a toolset to create fully dynamic frontend clients for your Django application, for the js framework of your choice.
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Django’s watching my back(end)
Speaker: Carlos de las Heras
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - The art of interacting with an autistic software developer
Speaker: Sara Peeters (Django Girls organizer)
Note: All of this is information on Autism spectrum disorder that is kind of special to Sara. Autism is hard to generalize.
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Level up! Rethinking the Web API framework
Speaker: Tom Christie (Django core developer and author of Django REST framework)
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - The Struggle of Tech: Feeling Better as a Learner
Speaker: Gloria Dwomoh
Learning things in tech is often frustrating, and didactics are not great. This goes doubly for theoretical subjects, e.g. "Algorithms and Data Structures". But the second aspect of making subjects like this hard is the aura of fear and difficulty that is woven around it.
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Services, Architecture, Channels
Speaker: Andrew Godwin (Django core developer and developer of Channels)
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - The road to unempathic communities is paved with good intentions
Speaker: Erik Romijn (a Django team member, chair of the Dutch Django Association and co-organiser of various conferences) - also called "a neo-liberal emotional djihaidst"
Imagine somebody falls for a scam - there is laughter, there is mocking. Because we are not empathic with the people caught in the scam - inexperienced people, sick people, … this is heartless. The tech community is very focussed on itself and neglects to be empathic to people different from us, whom we provide products and tools to.
DjangoCon Europe 2017 - Setting up a Python Community in Zimbabwe
Speaker: Anna Makarudze (Django Girls Harare/Masvingo, PyLadies Harare, PyCon Zimbabwe. DSF CoC member) & Humphrey Butau (Chairperson of PyZim, Organizer of PyConZim, Django Girls Harare/Masvingo & helper at PyLadies Harare)
Django under the Hood - Funding open source, the hard way
Speaker: Nadia Eghbal
Links: libraries.io
Think big - how do we do this for many problems, at the same time - which means building a system, which is a lot of prior work.
Django under the Hood - Database backends
Speaker: Michael Manfre has maintained django-mssql for 8 years.
Django under the Hood - JavaScript
Speaker: Idan Gazit works at heroku.
Links: ECMAScript 6 Features, leftpad, blog post on tool chains
Django under the Hood - Validation
Speaker: Loïc Bistuer: core dev, works mostly on forms and ORM
Django under the Hood - Keynote
Speaker: Jennifer Akullian is a psychologist/"people developer", dedicated to learning mechanics, working for Keen IO. Also active in a non-profit looking after mental health issues in tech.
Content Warning: Discussion
Links: Open sourcing mental health: study, Devpressed forum, mhprompt