Django Origins (and some things I have built with Django)

My talk from Django Birthday 2015, celebrating 10 years since the release of Django and hosted back in Lawrence, Kansas.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqii_iX0RTs

Transcript

1. Django Origins (and some things I have built with Django) Simon Willison - 11th July 2015 Django Birthday
4. Rob Curley Unofficial mission statement: “build cool shit”
5. Rob Curley Unofficial mission statement: “build cool shit”
14. … in three days
15. “The CMS”
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19. “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”
24. Simon Rogers
31. Side projects
33. /dev/fort
35. Where’s my
    nearest llama?
42. owlsnearyou.com
44. “Bugle is a Twitter-like application for groups of hackers collaborating in a castle (or fort, or other defensive structure) with no internet connection”
45. Bugle
46. “Wouldn’t it be cool if Twitter apps on the network could talk to Bugle instead?” So I said to Ben Firshman…
55. “build cool shit” (thanks, Rob)