Office hours

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Frank and I held our first Revsys “office hours” this past Friday, November 5th. We’ve taken the IRC transcript, organized and cleaned it up a bit, and posted it online for those who couldn’t make it.

We had about fifty people show in IRC where they asked questions on a wide variety of topics including deployment, NoSQL, cloud computing, and contributing to Django. It was a blast! A few of my favorite questions:

“How can we 1.5 thousand Django sites” (on a single server)?
“What is the stack that you all are recommending/using these days?”
“How do you handle patching existing [open source] projects?”

We had a great time with this, and will certainly be doing it again in the future. If you’d like to hear about future office hours, follow @revsys on Twitter.

Also, a shameless plug: if you’d like a chance to ask questions like this in person, you might want to attend one of my Django classes in LA and Boston next month.