Introduction and Orientatiation

Speaker 1: Hi, and on behalf of the DjangoCon organizers and the Django Events Foundation North America. I'd like to welcome you all to DjangoCon US 2021 online. I'm Drew Winstall. I am the program chair this year and the vice president of DEFNA And it's my honor to be here. In a non-pandemic year, I'd be looking out at a room of a few hundred people all excited for talks, lightning talks, sprints. Going out exploring the town, social encounters, uh meeting new friends, reuniting with old friends, and so much more. But given the pandemic situation in this country and Everything else is prob it is not really safe to be traveling and gathering in large groups yet, and so we will be doing this online instead. And I'm recording this in my living room with my dog

Speaker 1: who is constantly stirring next to me. I can't thank all of you enough for taking the time to join us for these two days of talks. We'll have live chat on both days at uh you can find information at 2021. jjangoCon. us slash chat. There you'll find our info links to our Discord where we'll do live Q<unk>A and general chat and spatial chat which we'll use for a virtual conference for sorry virtual hallway track and uh virtual sponsor booths During lunch and uh after each day's talks, we will have a social hour in the Verspatial Chat complete with La DJ thanks to the work of our sponsorship team. Excuse me. Please remember to follow our code of conduct during all these interactions.

Speaker 1: You can find out the we can read the code of conduct at 2021. jangocon. us slash conduct. I'd like to thank each of our speakers who gave their time and the recording ability so generously to give us the slate of 30 plus talks. For the first time this year, thanks to our speech to text sponsor uh Elastic and our Spanish speech to text sponsor Andella, we are able to have bilingual uh subtitles for all of our talks. In addition, we have five talks who were recorded in Spanish that had the English subtitles. There's also there is even one talk that was recorded in both Spanish and English, thanks to uh our speaker, Katherine Michelle, who was kind enough to record her talk twice. Next, I would like to say thank you to our sponsors. Without whom we would not be able to bring you DjangoCon

Speaker 1: US free of charge this year, nor would we be able to support the Django Software Foundation as a spot corporate sponsor as we have done since 2016. So I'd like to bring on Katia Liera , Catherine Holmes, and Josue Balandrano Coronel to say thank you to our sponsors.

Speaker 2: I'm Katia, President of DEFNA. I'm here with Josué, a fourth member of DEFNA. And with Katherine Holmes, we're going to talk about sponsors. Katherine?

Speaker 3: Thank you to Summit Technology Group, our diamond sponsor. STG uses innovative technology to help more than 200 community banks. Thank you to Elastic, the creators of Elasticsearch, which powers all your Django search needs. Elastic is our speech to text sponsor. Thank you to Endela, our Spanish speech to tech sponsor. They're the world's first long-term talent network that connects industry-leading companies with vetted remote engineers. Thank you to our virtual conference hall sponsor, the team at Revsys, contributors to Django open source projects, and experts in building scalable Django apps.

Speaker 4: We would also like to thank our community sponsors, Devna, Django Events Foundation of North America, the Django Software Foundation, and the Python Software Foundation They have been supporting Django and Python communities for years now and we really appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 1: Thanks to all three of you for your hard work. and uh organizing this conference, giskuring sponsorships and everything else you've done over the past year and change. It's been a long run, but I'm thank but I'm glad we've done it. Thank you so much. Next, I'd like to bring in a stall war to the DjangoCon community. Kojo Idrissa has been the longtime Lightning Talks chair and orientation chair for DjangoCon, and this year he is back to bring us a new version of his orientation, complete with hand-drawn title cards and everything. Kojo, take it away.

Speaker 5: Hello and welcome to DjangoCon US 2021. My name is Kojo Udrisa. I'm your orientation chair, and I'm here to help you get your bearings and get up on the right foot here at the conference. First of all, let me Let me say thank you to everyone for attending. I know the past 18 months or so have been difficult and trying for all of us, but we are very thrilled that you all are able to attend the conference and we look forward to interacting with many of you. So, usually the orientation session is designed to help people get a climate into a new physical space and perhaps deal with some of the anxiety that might come from being surrounded by strangers. However, this year, the Conference is virtual, and so some of those issues are have changed. First of all, with a virtual conference, hopefully everyone is in a space that they're familiar with and comfortable with.

Speaker 5: And so the issue of having to travel a distance and be surrounded by strangers is less of a concern. So that we don't have to worry about as much. But we do still want to make sure that everyone gets off on the right foot and that everyone has the best competence that they can. So despite the fact that DjangoCon US is virtual this year, we still do have a code of conduct. The code of conduct is an important part of making DjangoCon US successful, and it's really also there to help you all become better software engineers. The underlying idea is this. You've come to Jiangukan US for a number of different reasons, and I'll talk about some of those what some of those reasons might be in a moment. But while you're here at the conference, we want you to be focused on what you came to the conference.

Speaker 5: for and what you can get from the conference and how you can benefit from the conference. We don't want you to have to be worried about, you know, if you're going to be uncomfortable because of your sexual orientation or your gender identity or any of those other issues here at the conference. And we also don't want people to have to worry about sort of making mistakes and that kind of thing. So the code of conduct is available on the website. You can take a look at that. Make sure you're clear on all the details. If you have questions about the code of conduct, feel free to contact one of the organizers. And they can help you help provide you with some clarity. If you feel like there's been some sort of a code of conduct violation, again feel free to mem to contact members of the organizing committee. But the underlying idea of the code of conduct is that we want to have an environment that It is as inclusive as possible here at DjangoCon

Speaker 5: US so that everyone can get the benefits that they came for, whether it be becoming a better software engineer or other things. And I'll start to talk about those things now. So one of the big keys to success. At Django Khan US, whether it's in person or virtual, is figuring out your why. Why did you specifically decide to come to Django Khan US? And there could be one why, but could be multiple whys. You might have come because you wanted to improve your tactical skills and that's the only reason. You might have come because you wanted to find other job opportunities. You might have come because you wanted to be look for other people that you could hire. You might have come because you wanted to meet other potential collaborators on an open source project that you're working on. or for a new startup, there are a number of different reasons why people attend Django

Speaker 5: Khan US. So to get yourself on the right path, it's useful to take a few minutes and just sit down by yourself and think, well, why am I really here? What am I really hoping to get? get out of Django Khan US. And the answer to that why question will help guide your energy and your efforts throughout the rest of the conference. It will help you determine what talks you should go to, what talks you should maybe skip for now, or maybe watch the recordings later. It also will help you maybe determine how much time you spend in the actual talk tracks versus in the hallway track. So this year we're doing something a little different because of the virtual conference we're using spatial chat for the the uh bell hallway track to sort of provide an analog of what the physical hallway track would be. But again, if you are focused on your why, once you've determined what your why is, that will help you decide, okay, well how much time should I spend on the hallway

Speaker 5: track versus versus in the talks themselves, things of that nature. So the why is very important to help you get the most out of Django Khan, get the most benefit from Django Khan US, and so that this Django Khan US 2021 can be of the most benefit to you as possible. Now on that same note, when we talk about the hallway tracking and socializing and things of that nature, we have something that we call the Pac-Man rule that we like to use. And that is, and once you get in a special chest, you'll see, but it's some Similar to in real life, if you're in a conversation and you you you've got a group of people talking, usually in a circle so people can see each other, you want to leave a little bit of space in that circle, like Pac-Men's mouth here, so that new people can join the conversation and be included.

Speaker 5: So that does a couple of things. One, it helps to create an environment that is more inclusive instead of just people gathering up with groups of friends that they already know, um, it makes everyone feel included. But then two, if one of the reasons you're attending Django Kanye is because you want to find another job or find people to hire or things of that nature. Following the Pac-Man rule makes it easier for those new people and those new social connections to find their way to you because you leave an opening for them. to come in to you. So please keep that in mind as you're socializing and as you're interacting with folks here at the conference. The final thing that I want to point out and this might seem unusual for a tech conference but It's important to remember to breathe.

Speaker 5: And so as you see, I've got these very high-tech graphics here. It's important to remember to breathe. And you might think, you know, well, what are you talking about, Kojo? You're here, you're attending a conference, you've got technical talks, some talks that focus less on technology, more on other things, other issues that come up in software development, in business, uh and web development in general. And as you're getting new information, you're being exposed to things that you you haven't seen before and there's all this information coming in you start to panic and you're like oh my gosh I don't understand other stuff that's going on you start going to the spiral and oh Just breathe. It's important sometimes if you start to feel that spiral going on and some imposter syndrome kicking in. You you stre you feel like you're starting to be overwhelmed by too much information or too many new concepts that you're you're struggling with

Speaker 5: just Breathe. Stop and breathe for a moment. Now, some of you might think, well Kojo, I signed up for DjangoCon US. I didn't sign up for a YogaCon or Pranayama Khan. Like what what is this with this? breathing, you know, we're software developers. Yes, but again, the point of reminding you to stop and breathe is to also help you become a better software engineer. As you're being exposed to these new ideas, well first, that's the only way to learn. The only way to get new information to learn is to be exposed to ideas that you didn't have before. But being exposed to lots of ideas that you might not be familiar with can be overwhelming. And if you let the overwhelm overwhelm you, then you're not really able to absorb as

Speaker 5: much as you could from the conference. You're not able to get the most benefit from the conference. You're not able to make yourself the better software engineer that you're trying to become. So if you start to feel those the sensations, that sort of panic that anxiety coming up. Just breathe. It'll be okay. And with that I want to say thank you very all very much and welcome to DjangoCon US 2021. I look forward to interacting with you all throughout the course of the conference.

Speaker 1: Thanks, Kojo. That was awesome. And as he said, please remember the Pac-Man rule. And if you have any questions, you can tag at COCHelpers on the Discord to ask code of conduct questions. And you can also directly message any of the admins on Discord as well. We're happy to help you out. We want this to be a welcoming, inclusive commit uh conference that uh brings everyone in and you can have a great time and learn hopefully learn something too Lastly, I'd like to introduce our invited speaker for this year. Anna Makaruze was our keynote speaker at DjangoCon US 2018 in San Diego, which, if you may recognize this shirt, comes from that year. She's now the chair at uh of the Django Software Foundation, where and she is here kindly enough to give us an overview of the DSF's work.

Speaker 1: and what if the DFS DSF is looking to accomplish in the rest of 2021 and into 2022. So I'd like to wish you all a wonderful time at DjangoCon. I hope you have a lot of fun and I will see you in the Discord Thanks. Bye.

Speaker 2: We surpassed the expectations we have on community engagement and registration to the conference This year we launch a track in Spanish and every talk in the program has captions in both English and Spanish. None of this could have been possible without volunteers and at DjangoCon we've always relied on a great group of volunteers who donate their time. to make this event happen. So on behalf of Defna and the team at Django Kun US, thank you very much for helping out. We miss you and we hope to see you soon