The Sydney Django user group met on the 24th September at the IC.
Thanks all for an excellent evening! It was great meeting new attendees along with the regular crowd. I hope everyone was able to learn something new.
I'll be posting the video recordings of the talks over the next couple of days. I'll source the slides and post them to accompany each video plus Q&A session where available.
The talks
- Yianni - Experience learning Django, building a REST backend for an Ionic app frontend.
- Stuart - Rapid setup for ElasticSearch backend on Django using Haystack
- Markus - What's new in Django 1.9
Announcements
- MelbDjango are hosting MelbDjangoCamp in November on the Great Ocean Road.
- PyLadies are keen to start up a Sydney meetup. If you're interested then please contact Rachel from the meetup group.
- Sydney StartupWeek is being held October 23-30, if there's interest we could look at hosting a hackathon or similar. Shoot me a message if you're keen.
Hires
- Rebecca from RecruitLoop is looking for a Lead Software Engineer with Django experience.
- Jason is working with a team who are building online education systems for children. They're hiring experienced developers with Django backend/full-stack focus.
- Common Code, a Melbourne-based (currently expanding) dev shop are on the lookout for devs.
As always, if you're interested in giving a talk, have any announcements, or would like to hear a talk on a particular topic please get in touch via email [mattoc @ this domain] or tweet me @mattoc.