Hi, I'm very much interested to help. Please tell me, from where and how to get started.
Thanks, Subhranath Chunder. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Russell Keith-Magee < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Bruno Renié <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi fellow Django devs, > > > > I'd like to talk about a site that all of you probably know: > djangopeople.net. > > > > The site has originally been developed by Simon Willison and Natalie > > Downe and is a very useful part of the different sites connecting the > > Django community. Recently, however, Simon and Natalie became too busy > > to handle the maintenance work and, with the site going down every now > > and then, people started to worry about its future. I read at some > > point that Simon had more or less agreed to let other people run the > > site, but there wasn't any volunteer I was aware of. > > > > Given that the source code is on github, we started with Dan Fairs and > > Filip Jukić to work on the codebase: updating to Django 1.3 and the > > practices and conventions that have emerged since 2009. This is still > > a work in progress but the result can be seen on the github repo: > > https://github.com/brutasse/djangopeople.net. > > > > At this year's EuroPython, we talked about this with Jannis, Andrew > > and Simon. The result of the chat was that Simon is willing to let the > > DSF run djangopeople.net as part of its infrastructure and the DSF now > > has a database dump of djangopeople.net. The idea is now to make this > > a more open project: with Dan and Filip, we haven't very much > > advertised our work since we were not sure where we were going. Now > > we'd like to help the DSF run the site and make it evolve with a very > > high bus factor. > > > > To that end, we'd love to hear from anyone willing to help us with the > > site, from writing code to suggesting new features and improvements. > > Maybe it could be interesting to team with the djangopeople.me crew as > > well :) > > > > Assuming the DSF lets us handle djangopeople.net, the next steps would > > be to get the data and load it on a django-frienly host (I have an > > ep.io app running the updated codebase). The purpose of this email is > > to make more official the fact that there's a group of people working > > on it, and that more group members are welcome :). > > For the record -- if *anyone* has an idea for how to make the Django > community a better place, and is willing to put the time and effort > into making those ideas happen, the DSF will do anything it can to > help support them. > > I'm really excited that Bruno, Dan and Filip et al have stepped up to > look after and improve Django People. I can't wait to see what nifty > new features you can come up with. Best of luck, and if you (or anyone > else) need anything that the DSF can help provide, don't hesitate to > ask. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
