I mentioned earlier that June is fully booked (kids birthday parties, and more events that there are days; not to mention work deadlines). Unfortunately one event I might need to miss is Django.June which has me very upset. It is occuring at the same time as the Plone training I also want to go to. These are two encredible events. A Chance to learn from arguably the top Zope 3 instructor in the world, and a chance to attend a Django unconference at a Django festival (Adrian Holovaty will be less than two hours from my house!)

Django.June

An informal meeting of Django web framework people
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA - June 16, 2007

Here in Northampton, there’s a fun annual music festival called Django in June. It’s all about gypsy jazz — performances, music clinics, and jam sessions.

During the festival a small group of Django (web framework) developers are planning to get together. We’ll do it during the day on June 16, with the evening free for gypsy jazz!

Details

This is an informal event in the “unconference” vein. I’m hoping to have several short talks and maybe even some collaborative coding. I’m perfectly happy to have the content be driven by the desires of the attendees.

We’ll be meeting right in the heart of town, in the public meeting room of the Media Education Foundation. There’s a projector, a big meeting table, and plenty of chairs. The MEF shares the building (which used to be the town firehouse) with one of the best cafes in Northampton. As long as we’re buying some of their excellent food and drink it shouldn’t be a problem to use their free wifi. The room is reserved for us from 9am to 5pm.

See the NorthamptonArea page for a little more info about the locality, lodging options, etc.

People

Check out the DjangoDotJuneAttendees page. Please add your name and info there if you plan on coming!

The problem is that it is also ‘girls camping weekend’, so my wife will be away, and I need a babysitter. Not any babysitter, one available all day, and which I trust enough to be two hours away. I want this to happen, but there are other events days later that I will be attending. June is going to be fun!

Forget the cute dictionary definition tonight, we all know what being backlogged is like. Too many projects, tasks, bugs, deadlines, and a sever lack of time. A co-worker once called it suffering from ‘an acute temporal deficiency and a terminal case of deadline-itous.’ Terminal in the sense that you either the item gets killed off, or you do. You can’t do it all and something has to give. June and July have been fully booked for months, and I will be making a few announcements of some interesting things soon. It looks like some plone classes, and two sprints are going to be casualties. A few of the things I have been able to get done (NOTE: these were all team efforts):

1. 15 new Yew shrubs planted in the back yard (NEE!)
2. All the beds cut, weeded, trimmed, pruned, and a huge new bed one roughed out
3. First half of the border stones are in, awaiting four yards of mulch
4. New feature productized in the engine after four years of research and development
5. Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-learned how complex SWIG typemaps can get
6. Learned how roundup differs from trac, and how it does not (conference paper submission and review, NICE!)
7. Created a detailed list of new features and code snippits to incorporate into the PyCon-Tech code base (dynamic schema creation rocks!)
8. Was present at two very successful python meetups (can’t really take credit for their success, but I actually made it to them on time!)
9. Wrapping my brain around multi-threading (ipython + Stackless + scipy + matplotlib = my new shell; too bad matplotlib is not thread safe on win32)
10. Got the LightScribe CD art done for a set of Sugar Live CD’s I am planning on burning

I have 6 other blog posts started (most very short). All last week I was sleep deprived. This weekend improved things, mainly because my body shut down. I promised myself I would not write e-mails or these posts late at night or when I was over tired, as I tend to ramble and go off on tangents. oops….