Opening Remarks (Tuesday) with Peter Grandstaff
Published October 23, 2025
This video features Peter Grandstaff at DjangoCon US 2023 in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
This talk was presented at: https://2023.djangocon.us/talks/closing-remarks/
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Peter Grandstaff thanked attendees in person and online for making DjangoCon US possible and invited suggestions for a future venue, with an announcement expected the following month. He shared practical closing information about spare COVID tests and stickers, the evening trivia contest, and the next day’s sprints, and encouraged people to get involved through the DjangoCon US community. He recognized the conference’s sponsors, the Django and Python Software Foundations, DEFNA, speakers, reviewers, mentors, local partners, online moderators, volunteers, and organizers, especially co-chair Adrian Franke.
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We have a lot of thank yous, but the big one is to all of you here and all of you online, thank you. Every single one of you who attends this conference makes it what it is. I'm incredibly grateful to you all. If you have a suggestion for a future DjangoCon US venue. Please shoot an email to hello at defna. org. We are hoping to announce next year's venue next month. We also have some extra COVID tests and they expire soon. As well as some stickers, they're all laying out at the registration desk. Feel free to grab them on your way out.
Again, I urge anyone who's interested in getting more involved to reach out to us at hello at DjangoCon. us. It's really, really wonderful people to work with. I'll be looking at this hashtag tonight, so please post some stuff for me to look at. And on the Slack tonight, 7 p. m. trivia contest. Sprints tomorrow. Thank you very much to Cactus for hosting these. Big thanks to Six Feet Up for being our diamond sponsor.
Number one and platform SH Our platinum sponsors, Rev Sys, Abtible, and Cactus And all our gold sponsors, Link and Loop, Two Rock Software, JBS Solutions, Foxley Talent, the Wharton School, Rollbar, Century, Coherence, Ansible, Scout APM, JetBrains, and Wagtail Sea Mouse. Now, uh I made a mistake in not including this slide in previous days, but we all love Postgres
QL. They are a community sponsor. Thank you very much. Our bronze sponsors this year were Hellfauna and Test Driven IO. Django Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation, incredible work. We couldn't do it without y'all. Of course, Daphna puts on this whole gig. Wonderful organization. Big thanks to all our speakers.
You all shared so much with us, and we are so grateful for the work that you put into this. I think we had a good diverse lineup. I was thrilled to see so many people speaking at their first DjangoCon US. If you are a speaker and did not get a thank you note, please come up here right after this and get one. Our talk reviewers did a great job of selecting talks for this year's program. We had a couple talk mentors who were available to help people troubleshoot and work through issues with their talk
We had some great local partners and vendors. Made things run smoothly. Thank you to our online moderators. It's wonderful to have your help. Thank you to our volunteers who worked the desk and the cards and made the talks happen on schedule. And finally, if I could ask all the organizers to come up on stage with me.
It's really a testament to everyone involved in this year's conference that These folks mostly came up to me this week to ask if there was anything I needed, not to ask me to do something for them. So thank you, Drew Winstell, Jeff Triplett, Kojo Adrisa, Katherine Holmes, Adam Fast. Katie Michael, Ken Whitesell, Don Wages, Carol Gans, Peter Granstaff, Tim Schilling, Aaron Mullaney, Rachel Calhoun, Meta
Rolando, Michael Clark, Nicole Dominguez, Jason Judkins, Noah Kantrowitz , Tim Allen and my co-chair Adrian Frankie.
Email venue suggestions to [email protected]. The organizers hoped to announce the next year's venue the following month.
Discussed at 0:23Extra COVID tests and stickers are available at the registration desk, while supplies last.
Discussed at 0:23Reach out to [email protected] if you are interested in getting more involved.
Discussed at 1:10There is a trivia contest on Slack at 7 p.m. that night, followed by sprints the next day.
Discussed at 1:10The talk thanks the conference's community, bronze, gold, platinum, and diamond sponsors, including PostgreSQL, the Django and Python Software Foundations, and many commercial sponsors.
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