Meeting 2013/03/09

When

Saturday, 9th of March, 2013, starting from around 10:00

Where

Praekelt have offered to host us.

What?

• Work on improving the ​PyConZA 2013 web site
  • Make the code easier to use for other conferences (split out theming, etc)
  • Add support for editing talk submissions.
  • Add support for editing and arranging the schedule via Django admin.
  • Better invoice management
    • Invoices should be a separate table.
    • Invoices should be creatable in Django admin.
    • Allow multiple invoices per person.
    • Allow multiple people per invoice.
    • Allow cancelling (but not deletion) of invoices.
  • Support for adding news (and other templated pages) via Django admin.
  • Support for adding and editing sponsors via Django admin.
  • Maybe add some cool visualizations with ​d3:
    • Number of people signed up in various categories.
    • Places remaining.
    • Sponsorship slots remaining.
    • Days until various deadlines.
  • Other improvements

• There will also be some general discussion and planning for PyConZA 2013.

Project plan for website update

• Start from the current code base (minus any sensitive data and PyConZA 2012 specific things).
• Fork a new generic version copyright Unomena and individual contributors.
• Pick a license -- BSD? GPL?
• Get people from CTPUG to hack on it.
• Create a nice splash page for the project with Unomena and CTPUG logos on it.
• Include thanks to Unomena in the default templates.
• Advertise the new project at PyCon US 2013.

Code repository

The project, named ​wafer, is on github

Next Meeting date

The next meeting will be 20th of April, 2013