convore.json/groups/django-community/there-arent-enough-django-events/messages.json

[{"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102417.433111, "message": "Working on http://lanyrd.com/ I've noticed that Django has embarrassingly few events compared to other technologies", "group_id": 81, "id": 47761}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102490.879353, "message": "http://lanyrd.com/topics/ruby-on-rails/ has 14", "group_id": 81, "id": 47764}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102641.468343, "message": "That said, I don't come across people using Django very often for sites at all", "group_id": 81, "id": 47775}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102869.0785329, "message": "I'm sure there are way more people using Rails though", "group_id": 81, "id": 47788}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102585.3009579, "message": "Of particular note: Ruby and Rails have a TON of regional events", "group_id": 81, "id": 47769}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102839.200691, "message": "That's awesome, good to hear", "group_id": 81, "id": 47786}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102870.4948001, "message": "I've also noticed there to be a fair bit of activity on django snippets (well, when it first came around), but I rarely found much of interest there\u2026", "group_id": 81, "id": 47789}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102926.0680659, "message": "Documentation often has my answer", "group_id": 81, "id": 47794}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102680.21983, "message": "@ericflo Yes.", "group_id": 81, "id": 47778}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102544.0886991, "message": "http://lanyrd.com/topics/drupal/ has 5, but they have more variety of events", "group_id": 81, "id": 47767}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297102677.7564061, "user_id": 544}], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102653.248935, "message": "Man I gotta get off my ass and schedule another SF Django meetup", "group_id": 81, "id": 47776}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102622.880554, "message": "I would love for there to be more Django-oriented meetups. I've noticed the same low number of Django events, but I also think it's disproportionate to number of people using it", "group_id": 81, "id": 47772}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102631.234803, "message": "NordicRuby, RailsConf India, London Ruby, RailsCamp NZ, Scottish Ruby Conf etc", "group_id": 81, "id": 47773}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102899.0682759, "message": "I think that's definitely part of it", "group_id": 81, "id": 47791}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102453.868578, "message": "+1", "group_id": 81, "id": 47763}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102909.2908249, "message": "http://stackoverflow.com/tags shows 29873 for Rails and 14374 for Django", "group_id": 81, "id": 47792}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102432.1036041, "message": "http://lanyrd.com/topics/django/ lists 4 upcoming events right now", "group_id": 81, "id": 47762}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102571.844079, "message": "now part of it is that the Django community is smaller than others... but I don't think the number of events is proportional to the community size - I think we're under-performing", "group_id": 81, "id": 47768}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102600.3489521, "message": "Well also they seem to be tagging Ruby conferences as \"Ruby on Rails\"", "group_id": 81, "id": 47770}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102603.076777, "message": "yeah, other than EU, there's only one djangocon", "group_id": 81, "id": 47771}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102666.9543331, "message": "Apture is the only one I can think off that none of my main Django-using friends were involved in", "group_id": 81, "id": 47777}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102810.1841111, "message": "In this YC class about a third of the groups seem to be using Django", "group_id": 81, "id": 47782}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102852.1371009, "message": "I still think Django's high quality documentation mean that a lot of sites that use it never really talk about it - it works, there's no need for them to ask questions etc", "group_id": 81, "id": 47787}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102910.9640701, "message": "Whenever I have a question, I usually just google-search the documentation for it, first", "group_id": 81, "id": 47793}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102964.021107, "message": "So on the topic of Django conferences... one thing that would really help is having a standard, replicatable format", "group_id": 81, "id": 47795}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297102972.1724329, "message": "probably an unconference / Camp style thing", "group_id": 81, "id": 47796}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297103016.6410589, "message": "check out all the Drupal Camps and WordCamps: http://lanyrd.com/search/?q=drupal+camp http://lanyrd.com/topics/wordcamp/", "group_id": 81, "id": 47801}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297104450.9420249, "message": "while some things tend to differ from location to location, I think it's worthwhile to collect that info, as some kind of FAQ", "group_id": 81, "id": 47823}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106555.6453381, "message": "there are lots of windows people who don't get out much and that's why you don't know them :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 47879}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297104339.5175071, "message": "simonw: I know this year's DjangoCon Europe organizers try to document everything along the way so we have a DjangoCon starter kit at the end", "group_id": 81, "id": 47822}, {"user_id": 418, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297105309.8435259, "message": "there should be django meetups in SF, that would be cool", "group_id": 81, "id": 47829}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106529.137428, "message": "the people you know are a self-selecting group of mac/linux users (or at least that's my situation)", "group_id": 81, "id": 47877}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297104521.6993151, "message": "if you ask me, I wouldn't mind if the DSF would get more responsibilities to help the community organize events", "group_id": 81, "id": 47824}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297105402.426897, "message": "Maybe something to help spark this kind of thing in SF would be to have weekly hack-nights hosted by Django-using people?", "group_id": 81, "id": 47832}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297105435.725399, "message": "e.g. Tuesdays are NSCoderNight in SF, where Obj-C programmers all gather at this one coffee shop that has lots of space and big tables for groups to sit around", "group_id": 81, "id": 47833}, {"user_id": 177, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297105580.248482, "message": "This one by me seems to be doing quite well, I've only been once though: http://www.meetup.com/ladjango/", "group_id": 81, "id": 47838}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297105478.884578, "message": "You don't have to be an Obj-C/Cocoa programmer to go, but it's an obvious thing to go to if you have questions about stuff or just want to be with some people working with the same tech you are", "group_id": 81, "id": 47835}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297105495.9671061, "message": "Same can be done with Django, which would help spur discussion, ideas, etc.", "group_id": 81, "id": 47836}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106174.068223, "message": "http://www.meetup.com/django-nyc/  -- the NYC django group", "group_id": 81, "id": 47862}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106397.569005, "message": "Btw, once I get back to SF, I'm totally cool with scouting out places for us to have DjangoCoderNights or whatev we might call it", "group_id": 81, "id": 47870}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106438.6283989, "message": "One thing that was successful in NYC was to sit a group of people in front of the Django tutorial and be there to answer questions.", "group_id": 81, "id": 47872}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106447.9302139, "message": "But be prepared to help people debug windows installs.", "group_id": 81, "id": 47875}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106473.955981, "message": "In SF? Not likely ;)", "group_id": 81, "id": 47876}, {"user_id": 177, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106572.5604739, "message": "LA's just too damn large to do something like that. There was one code-off a week or so ago, but that was like... 30 miles away, but still considered LA!", "group_id": 81, "id": 47880}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297106860.9113081, "message": "@justinlilly No, the thing is, in SF there just aren\u2019t a lot of people with non-Mac laptops who ever go out to coffee shops with their computers.", "group_id": 81, "id": 47890}, {"user_id": 521, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297110820.6809511, "message": "I've been thinking of starting something in Chicago, but always get \"busy\"", "group_id": 81, "id": 47957}, {"user_id": 521, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297110869.0249431, "message": "I should get on that.. especially as everyblock is all of 20 feet from my office door and there are other django/python developers within half a mile of here ;)", "group_id": 81, "id": 47958}, {"user_id": 214, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297111647.93766, "message": "There's a django-chicago google group, too.", "group_id": 81, "id": 47963}, {"user_id": 521, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297111843.9472489, "message": "seems slightly dead as well :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 47967}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297136915.6827509, "message": "most of the problems I've seen which have prevented more events is a lack of time/energy devoted towards organizing /planning/running", "group_id": 81, "id": 48838}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297141366.107779, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297136933.1980541, "message": "It's because we're writing code, not showing off!", "group_id": 81, "id": 48840}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297136836.8763199, "message": "@jezdez what specifically do you think the DSF could do to help organize events?", "group_id": 81, "id": 48836}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297137145.6043079, "message": "@alex agreed.  For better or worse tho if we want more events, we need to figure out how to redirect some of that energy", "group_id": 81, "id": 48849}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297137265.1809461, "message": "@SeanOC I was mostly mocking that response, since it shows up for almost any \"why is X less visible\"", "group_id": 81, "id": 48851}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297171823.8932641, "message": "@SeanOC The DSF could for example be more upfront on the fact that it actually is able to (and did in the past) sponsor meetups and sprints", "group_id": 81, "id": 49248}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297171864.428725, "message": "Heh, nice, there is a French conference, too: http://twitter.com/djangocong/status/34959695013748736", "group_id": 81, "id": 49249}, {"user_id": 544, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297173705.5998349, "message": "Hack nights are about writing code, too.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49257}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297196964.777946, "message": "Oh man, djangocong, I want to go.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49623}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297196966.3082359, "message": "Maybe I will", "group_id": 81, "id": 49624}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297196549.486007, "message": "@jezdez i was very vocal in trying to help out the DSF in all it's event-making ways, and fell behind. @seanoc is the king of it. i will be as good as him one day.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49614}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198517.6037731, "message": "\"Social gathering directory\" ?", "group_id": 81, "id": 49668}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198530.2698851, "message": "Are you talking about convore branding?", "group_id": 81, "id": 49670}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198541.347111, "message": "@tilgovi lanyrd.com", "group_id": 81, "id": 49672}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297196522.9115601, "message": "are monthly meetups fair game for lanyrd?", "group_id": 81, "id": 49613}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198477.769454, "message": "@jacob yes, definitely", "group_id": 81, "id": 49664}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198487.027648, "message": "we have this real problem in that people assume we're only interested in conferences", "group_id": 81, "id": 49665}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198500.6427159, "message": "(calling ourselves the \"social conference directory\" probably doesn't help there, we need a new tagline)", "group_id": 81, "id": 49667}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198520.530159, "message": "problem is there isn't a good word for what we do care about - we care about \"events where people get together to share their knowledge\"", "group_id": 81, "id": 49669}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198542.0131609, "message": "no, talking about http://lanyrd.com", "group_id": 81, "id": 49673}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198565.617295, "message": "\"knowledge events\" isn't 100% sucky, but doesn't exactly roll off the tongue", "group_id": 81, "id": 49676}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198590.964998, "message": "hrm.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49681}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198596.3183019, "message": "\"professional\" has the same problem - we love amateurs too", "group_id": 81, "id": 49682}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198612.6788831, "message": "\"meetup\" would be great, if meetup.com hadn't already grabbed that one :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 49684}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198465.453002, "message": "djangocong looks pretty awesome", "group_id": 81, "id": 49663}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198531.777575, "message": "we don't like birthday parties or gigs, we do like GitHub drinkups / conferences / user groups etc", "group_id": 81, "id": 49671}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198543.8039501, "message": "oh", "group_id": 81, "id": 49674}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198560.4456689, "message": "@simonw sweet. djangoLA hasn't missed a meeting 14(?) months strong", "group_id": 81, "id": 49675}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198567.60112, "message": "When I saw the name I thought convore might be focused on conferences. While I think it's a good use case, I'm glad to see that's not all there is to it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49677}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198573.8036301, "message": "Django LA looks great, I'd love to make it along some time", "group_id": 81, "id": 49678}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198576.3752329, "message": "@simonw industry events?", "group_id": 81, "id": 49679}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198588.1178601, "message": "doesn't cover scrapbooking conventions etc", "group_id": 81, "id": 49680}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198609.9456961, "message": "meetup.com solves a similar thing. Perhaps look at their branding for inspiration?", "group_id": 81, "id": 49683}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198713.660394, "message": "meetup.com annoys the hell out of me", "group_id": 81, "id": 49685}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198722.2304111, "message": "I should never have told it anything about any categories", "group_id": 81, "id": 49686}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198919.286355, "message": "I assume you're in SFO?", "group_id": 81, "id": 49692}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198745.867944, "message": "Getting emails like \"there are 284 meetups in your area this week!\" is not helpful. I probably want to go to 3 of them.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49687}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198953.1175101, "message": "The problem with meetup is that they won't pick a demographic and stick to it. If it were just for tech organizations... they could have way more relevant features.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49694}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297198930.2168419, "message": "I get maybe 1 every week in NYC", "group_id": 81, "id": 49693}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297199173.2449911, "message": "Yeah. SFO.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49703}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297203006.425962, "message": "@justinlilly: i know a great amount of non-tech people that use meetup as well. perhaps we nerds need to fork it =)", "group_id": 81, "id": 49754}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297203235.755861, "message": "@jacob I'd happily tell you what's wrong with it and what else I want you to build ;)", "group_id": 81, "id": 49756}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297203511.2737679, "message": "sounds like i'm going to get .1% interest! hurray!", "group_id": 81, "id": 49769}, {"user_id": 214, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204340.991241, "message": "@justinlilly or they haven't yet got that market paying attention to them and don't have the data", "group_id": 81, "id": 49815}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204377.775394, "message": "regardless, searching for events by location seems reasonable.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49816}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204140.602478, "message": "esp when that idea was \"a facebook for XXX\"", "group_id": 81, "id": 49797}, {"user_id": 214, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204145.8588929, "message": "@justinlilly it sounds like lanyrd wants to be that product. I didn't realize either their focus scaled down.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49798}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297203798.1543839, "message": "@jacob meetup is $6-10/mo. I would think you could make a compelling product to take the tech market from them.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49784}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297203803.603703, "message": "but I could be wrong.", "group_id": 81, "id": 49786}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297337200.6955709, "user_id": 719}], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204131.341578, "message": "that was more a joke at all the friends that came out of the woodwork post 'social network' with a killer ide athat they'd give me a small slice of interest in if i did all the work", "group_id": 81, "id": 49796}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204184.455164, "message": "@jacob that sounds like those people learned the wrong thing from that movie", "group_id": 81, "id": 49800}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204304.171715, "message": "@carljm if my search for \"Seattle, WA\" turns up nothing and \"San Francisco, CA\" turns up 1 result... They need to work on search. ;) /cc @simonw", "group_id": 81, "id": 49813}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297204406.227001, "message": "How else am I going to get work to buy me a trip to Europe?", "group_id": 81, "id": 49819}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297205898.546407, "message": "@djchall you have no idea", "group_id": 81, "id": 49888}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297206352.518368, "user_id": 228}], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297205952.875612, "message": "@jacob that's be like seeing Star Wars and asking your friend to build a space station that could blow up an entire planet", "group_id": 81, "id": 49891}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297205958.2351251, "message": "*that'd", "group_id": 81, "id": 49892}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206366.667933, "message": "i believe the exact line is \"I want to get into the startup world, that seems to be where all the money is\"", "group_id": 81, "id": 49896}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206375.9127741, "message": "he didn't say \"I just saw the social network\" but it was within 1.5 weeks of it coming out", "group_id": 81, "id": 49897}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206450.758553, "message": "@jacob he probably got led astray by the sean parker scenes with cocaine and supermodels", "group_id": 81, "id": 49900}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297275649.5513151, "user_id": 594}], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206474.127969, "message": "actually, my life is a lot like sean parker's, only with pliny the elder and cats instead of coke and supermodels", "group_id": 81, "id": 49902}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206559.5455439, "message": "oh man oh man", "group_id": 81, "id": 49903}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206564.5983729, "message": "forking this topic one second", "group_id": 81, "id": 49904}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206629.0786469, "message": "forked", "group_id": 81, "id": 49908}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297206638.983305, "message": "https://convore.com/django-community/beer/", "group_id": 81, "id": 49909}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297225718.363605, "message": "The naming thing is definitely a problem but there's also a bit of a disconnect for something like a meetup group as everything now seems focused on one-time/yearly events", "group_id": 81, "id": 50239}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297225648.4976611, "message": "@simonw I never thought of putting Django NYC on lanyard (behold why I'm not a marketer).", "group_id": 81, "id": 50238}, {"user_id": 56, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297226182.152936, "message": "we have a series concept that should help address that", "group_id": 81, "id": 50274}, {"user_id": 281, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297226464.8310821, "message": "nice, I'll be happy to try it out when it comes out", "group_id": 81, "id": 50294}, {"user_id": 205, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297274468.573545, "message": "Our PDX Python meetup is really active (around 50 users showed up last night) and I spoke about Django (readthedocs specifically). So yea, I think a lot of the meetups are python and django", "group_id": 81, "id": 51388}, {"user_id": 205, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297274518.9798241, "message": "ugh. \"users\" ... they're people too :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 51389}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278813.5213921, "message": "@jacob agreed, I believe that's a great idea :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 52634}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278853.8124139, "message": "@acdha the good news is that there is a much better chance to pull this off now", "group_id": 81, "id": 52667}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278866.4110229, "message": "given the increased number of core dev", "group_id": 81, "id": 52676}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278258.8518479, "message": "@jacob as with any other organizing stuff, actually doing it is much better than wondering why nobody hasn't done it yet", "group_id": 81, "id": 52340}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278870.536206, "message": "*devs", "group_id": 81, "id": 52680}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279090.882724, "message": "but it might be nice if we could work out a common topic (i.e. we were thinking helping with 1.3 but timing fell through)", "group_id": 81, "id": 52846}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278747.0611999, "message": "jezdez: we (django-district) are trying to get started with real sprints. Has Rich Leland already contacted you?", "group_id": 81, "id": 52584}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278836.6625891, "message": "@jezdez thanks", "group_id": 81, "id": 52654}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278738.0659699, "message": "@rasiel: try in https://convore.com/django-community/feedback-about-convore/", "group_id": 81, "id": 52580}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278797.6667421, "message": "The main thing we're looking at is working out a way to get someone with a commit bit around either in person or on IRC", "group_id": 81, "id": 52622}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278946.4766331, "message": "Malcolm gave a talk when he was in town and it was quite popular, if we semi-randomly organized it", "group_id": 81, "id": 52728}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279060.6535971, "message": "@acdha when are you hoping to do it?", "group_id": 81, "id": 52837}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279083.4092579, "message": "@jacob that's correct, afaik", "group_id": 81, "id": 52844}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279120.6852551, "message": "you'll want to have a horde of doc-patches in store for people who are newer to contributing", "group_id": 81, "id": 52860}, {"user_id": 978, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279292.5013249, "message": "@acdha Thurdays are the best, but really any day besides Wednesday..", "group_id": 81, "id": 52926}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278750.784883, "message": "the number one thing i'd love is trafficking interesting speakers.", "group_id": 81, "id": 52586}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278949.8306689, "message": "or you know, longer standing ones like ladjango", "group_id": 81, "id": 52731}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278826.038666, "message": "@acdha nope, he hasn't", "group_id": 81, "id": 52644}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279016.817239, "message": "@acdha so what would you need from us to do a sprint?", "group_id": 81, "id": 52806}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297280859.970892, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278487.7481329, "message": "is convore built on django?", "group_id": 81, "id": 52464}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279368.105037, "message": "@acdha so in other words, I believe we are able to make sure one of the core devs is around given some time for coordination. it'd probably be best if you'd publicly ask for one to be around on date XYZ", "group_id": 81, "id": 52953}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278977.092922, "message": "@acdha indeed, such invitations are great, I did the same in amsterdam the other week", "group_id": 81, "id": 52757}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279024.0774541, "message": "We're actually meeting tonight to plan some of the future events", "group_id": 81, "id": 52807}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279093.6402249, "message": "i could hop on and help a bit, i've helped lead two sprints at LA. you still will want to guilt @jezdez or @alex to be on for help", "group_id": 81, "id": 52847}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279026.315536, "message": "We have space now", "group_id": 81, "id": 52812}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297280256.295337, "message": "@acdha no, but i could probably write up a blog post about both", "group_id": 81, "id": 53380}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297280264.0904651, "message": "i'm not sure how successful they were, but it was good learning experiences", "group_id": 81, "id": 53384}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297280279.511795, "message": "the main thing is anything you're doing beyond minor fixes you'll want to get the design decsions made before hand", "group_id": 81, "id": 53400}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278919.817086, "message": "basically i want the DSF to know who the smart people who like talking are and keep tabs on their travel plans.", "group_id": 81, "id": 52710}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278946.702117, "message": "oh know i expressed guilt eariler=)", "group_id": 81, "id": 52729}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278429.3292699, "message": "@jezdez how do you mean?", "group_id": 81, "id": 52421}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278734.624562, "message": "@jezdez i'm more in favor of the DSF doing whatever it can to help those who wish to actually -do- thos events", "group_id": 81, "id": 52578}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279054.462446, "message": "@jezdez i'm on i think every DSF mailing list and haven't gotten anything in a long time. am i missing one or is that the case?", "group_id": 81, "id": 52833}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278675.5753701, "message": "@jacob I was referring to the idea of the DSF organizing/paying events, such as barcamps or sprints. I'm complaining that there are always ideas for such things, but very little results", "group_id": 81, "id": 52550}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278905.3685369, "message": "@jezdez and that's what i wanted to try and help and feel guilty for not doing =)", "group_id": 81, "id": 52699}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278936.3223219, "message": "and now and then send them at cost to newer uigs", "group_id": 81, "id": 52716}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278903.751152, "message": "True. One thing which would be great for DSF to do: we'd love to have a standing invitation for anyone visting the DC area", "group_id": 81, "id": 52697}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297278936.9392841, "message": "@jacob sorry if I ignited guilt, wasn't my intention", "group_id": 81, "id": 52717}, {"user_id": 978, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279115.3663139, "message": "@acdha Does django-district have any events that are not on wednesday night?", "group_id": 81, "id": 52858}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279041.3805821, "message": "The main thing we could use is direction and/or a committer", "group_id": 81, "id": 52828}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279053.8431449, "message": "It's okay if everyone shows up and works on things randomly", "group_id": 81, "id": 52832}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279132.0977039, "message": "@jacob: fairly soon, modulo space - the threespot media guys offered to host at their new office space which isn't quite ready yet", "group_id": 81, "id": 52866}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279186.9554219, "message": "@acdha yeah, honestly, I think there are enough tickets to be worked on, also regarding bigger scopes. e.g. the gsoc branches query-refactor and app-loading are great topics", "group_id": 81, "id": 52890}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279401.698169, "message": "agreed", "group_id": 81, "id": 52963}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279498.909862, "message": "yeah, I need to corner russ about it, since he's the new boss", "group_id": 81, "id": 53012}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297280073.218699, "message": "Did any of that make it onto a wiki / blog somewhere? I'd love to see post-mortems from a successful sprint", "group_id": 81, "id": 53293}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279420.401613, "message": "e.g. if we can pay alex the flight to d.c. to work on query-refactor that'd be great", "group_id": 81, "id": 52970}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279465.803967, "message": "Thanks - I'll try to nail down a time. Also see if some of the talk about e.g. paying travel expenses can solidify into something tangible ;)", "group_id": 81, "id": 52995}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279555.893734, "message": "later all", "group_id": 81, "id": 53041}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279560.751044, "message": "We've had a few shops locally express interest in funding some of that. I'll see if we can get more details about it", "group_id": 81, "id": 53045}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279777.338486, "message": "@acdha def. keep me posted, i can be around online if it's a good weekend as best i can", "group_id": 81, "id": 53129}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279392.6261699, "message": "@jezdez I'll check on timing tonight. I think having themes / goals like that would be good to make the event seem more focused", "group_id": 81, "id": 52961}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279787.7201469, "message": "we went through the rookie-sprint blues and learned a ton of lessons from it", "group_id": 81, "id": 53138}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297281326.996078, "message": "@acdha there are quite a few open documentation tickets, if that suits your fancy.", "group_id": 81, "id": 53974}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297281344.6455181, "message": "Involves digging deep into django, likely moreso than actual bugfixes (as you really need to understand everything)", "group_id": 81, "id": 53984}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297281596.2330251, "message": "@jacob Good point: that's definitely I'd like to coordinate with a larger focus so we have a reasonably clear path to something which is likely to be committed", "group_id": 81, "id": 54105}, {"user_id": 2226, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297328771.512459, "message": "ghjkl;", "group_id": 81, "id": 67646}, {"user_id": 4893, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297341295.9627759, "message": "We should probably really do more small local events especial in Austria and Germany. Perhaps the local usergroups could collaborate here a bit more to organize events larger than monthly meetups ;-)", "group_id": 81, "id": 68815}, {"user_id": 4893, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297348160.8087521, "message": "@jezdez Given that I was talking about events \"larger than monthly meetups\" barcamps definitely count here and were what I had in mind. Right now there are virtually no Python/Django events in Austria outside of some Plone/Zope-focused ones, so a barcamp-style event should be the first thing to try next after those monthly micro-events.", "group_id": 81, "id": 69685}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297347954.75313, "message": "@zerok not sure what you mean with larger events, if you think about a whole conference, I can assure you it reqires a *lot* of effort. sprints and barcamp-style meetings don't on the other hand", "group_id": 81, "id": 69664}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297348600.471765, "message": "@zerok indeed, isn't there a startup scene, too?", "group_id": 81, "id": 69813}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297348726.491931, "message": "guess it'd be a chance to get to know the others", "group_id": 81, "id": 69844}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297348418.097523, "message": "@zerok agreed, I'm sure there would be some interest, now you only need to organize it :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 69744}, {"user_id": 213, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297348613.3946271, "message": "s/scene/community/", "group_id": 81, "id": 69816}, {"user_id": 4893, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297348555.9788649, "message": "@jezdez Perhaps I will if time permits and there can be something arranged with the fine folks in Vienna :-)", "group_id": 81, "id": 69804}, {"user_id": 4893, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297348686.411242, "message": "@jezdez nothing related to Django that I'm aware of right now, I'm afraid.... Besides \"Schnee von Morgen\" I mean :-)", "group_id": 81, "id": 69833}, {"user_id": 5863, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297355794.9751921, "message": "I used to organise the DJUGL (Django user group) events in London. Always well attended (80+ people), but I've been busy getting married, aren't in London as much any more and aren't using Django at work these days. I've had some interest from other work about running it again soon though, watch this space", "group_id": 81, "id": 71076}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297356123.8250079, "message": "@garethr Awesome. \u2665", "group_id": 81, "id": 71146}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297385153.3288791, "message": "One of the purposes behind Holden Web's move to Portland is to get more invllved in running open-source-related events. I don't know whether we want to immediately extend the scope to Europe, but I would be interested in hearing where people thought a 50- to 100-person event - for definiteness, let's say a full one-day event for around $200 US - would run.", "group_id": 81, "id": 76634}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297445196.4670019, "message": "@holdenweb If I didn't have to travel by plane (ie: portland/seattle) , and it wasn't during work hours, I would consider it. I'm not going to be using django at work much longer so its hard to justify as a business expense for me.", "group_id": 81, "id": 81595}, {"user_id": 6439, "stars": [{"date_created": 1297453795.8582699, "user_id": 1}, {"date_created": 1297455142.850878, "user_id": 205}, {"date_created": 1297459002.760036, "user_id": 927}], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297453768.3490961, "message": "@holdenweb oh didn't realize you moved to Portland! Even more reasons to come visit now!", "group_id": 81, "id": 82686}, {"user_id": 927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1837, "date_created": 1297279198.7479689, "message": "@taharp Yes, albeit not recently - is there a better day of the week for you? We're open to feedback on that", "group_id": 81, "id": 52896}]