So the challenge begins, UTOS-ConMan is in good shape from last year’s HackNights, but it does need a bit of a clean up and some new features as noted in a previous post.
The problem is that the Utah Open Source Conference 2009 needs a registration system. Recently released from the guys over at the Southern California Linux Expo is some good code in the ScaleReg system. We’re going to update and improve it over the next few months. Hopefully, by mid-July, we’ll have it up and running with Django 1.0, and have it ready to roll for folks to start registration.
Now the real question is why are we blogging about all this stuff recently. Well, the reason is, we need your help. We’re looking for folks who are interested in learning or improving their Python/Django skills, helping with css and graphic design, testing and any other intangibles we haven’t thought about yet. We’re looking for you and we’re looking to start this coming Tuesday. So come on over and join the HackNight!
You might ask yourself, why would I help out? And that’s a really good question, so let’s provide some good answers. If you participate and provide some good feedback, code or contribute in some other way, you’ll get free admission the to UTOSC 2009 (a $70 value). In addition, you’ll learn a valuable skill or improve upon your skill set as this project introduces some interesting and fun challenges. There’s also pride. This project will be used by many of the community tech conferences around the nation and world and your name will be among the contributors. I’m sure there will be some conferences we haven’t even considered who will be using your code or design. We’re also working on getting a couple good mentors who are expert Python and Django developers. They’ll be on hand to help you with troubleshooting, common issues, etc.
I think we may have your attention now, so let’s talk about the details. We know you want to come an help, so here’s how:
When: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 from 6:30pm – 11pm. We encourage you to come for as many hours of this as you can and you can come anytime during these hours.
Where: Clint Savage’s home; 5225 Gravenstein Park, Murray, Utah 84123
This information is available on the Utah Tech Events Calendar as well — http://sn.im/ute-calendar (iCal: http://sn.im/ute-calendar-ics)
If you are unable to join us physically, we’re going to be working in #utos-dev on irc.freenode.net so please feel free to join us there as well. We’ll have some folks hanging out there as well to include you in the development project. They’ll try to describe the goals and get you started as well.
We’re planning on making this an every other week HackNight for a while, so come on by on the first and third Tuesdays from 6:30-11pm. We hope to see you all at the first UTOS-Conman/Scalereg HackNight of 2009 on June 2.
Cheers,
Clint