Revolution Systems specializes in performance and scalability, Django web application development, Systems Administration services and commercial support of many Open Source Software systems.

Open "Office Hours"

We've been wanting to try this for awhile, but have been too busy to actually try it out until now. Jacob Kaplan-Moss and I will be holding open "office hours" this Friday November 5th between 1-3 PM CDT in IRC. Come join us in #revsys on freenode and pick our brains. Or just come to listen and learn.

The concept is pretty simple, Jacob and I (and likely many other knowledgeable Djangonauts) will be in the channel and attempt to answer your questions related to:

  • Django/Python
  • Deployment
  • Scaling/Performance
  • PostgreSQL
  • Anything else we happen to know...

We're going to log the discussion and will provide a transcript online afterwards.

Update: The transcript is now available.

Comments

Hmm, I always spelled it "Djangonaut", like Astronaut. Is a Djangonaught a Django developer misbehaving? I guess that's better than a Djangonought, someone who can't accomplish anything in Django...

  Posted by Ned Batchelder on Nov 2, 2010 at 2:57 PM

hahaha, it wouldn't be a blog post written by me if it didn't have at least one glaring typo! Fixed it, thanks!

  Posted by Frank Wiles on Nov 2, 2010 at 3:18 PM

Jacob: This sounds like a great idea, but here's what will happen with me. I'll think about joining the channel early in the week, then totally forget about it until 3:05 Friday afternoon. If you continue this idea of "Office Hours", you might consider an email sign-up reminder service.

  Posted by Jeff Bauer on Nov 2, 2010 at 9:26 PM

Jeff: We worried about that as well. If this catches on and we end up doing it on a regular basis we'll definitely setup an email list. For now you can follow @revsys on Twitter and we'll send out a couple of reminders.

  Posted by Frank Wiles on Nov 3, 2010 at 12:06 AM