Pycon AU 2015 Notes

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Connections

• ICT in Schools connections: http://www.scientistsinschools.edu.au/ICT/ (for Kate and other ICT professionals at JCU)
• http://digitalcareers.edu.au/industry/
• http://digitalcareers.edu.au/volunteer/
• Advertising events: http://digitalcareers.edu.au/events

Events/collaboration

• IT@JCU, Dev Club
• Codeathon
• Startup Weekend
• Startup Weeks in Schools
• NCSS Challenge
• PyNQ: grant vision!

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About the bursary

• 30 September deadline
• Mention it is Non-conforming
• Compelling reasons why my idea should be supported
• Usually 20-30 applications
• Assessed on quality of application
• Potential as an ambassador for the business community of Townsville
• Funding for idea is not for development in competition with others
• Funding of courses with mentoring, personal development, achieving the end goal
• The mentor space would be just that, open-access policy to skills and mentoring

Notes

Young people & students want to:

• Know how things work
• Build what they use everyday

They need to:

• Learn how to share code (Git), build skills:
  • Communication (management)
  • Version controls
  • Simpler tools
  • Continual integration
• Being a responsible coding citizen (APIs)
• Explain new procedures to everyone at once (regular dev sessions?)
  • Technologies, languages, introductions etc

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To research

• Twisted: DNS api (dynamic URLs)
• Crochet - Async with sync code
• Channels for Django (async queue for Pyramid?)
• Docker vs Salt vs ...?

Reading

• 12 factor app manifesto
• Two scoops methodology
• Path to smoother migrations (Nathan Duthoit) -- database changes over time, migrations as part of deployments

Deployment suggestions (to check)

• Move all settings out into a specific environment file (.env) (env variables)
• Different settings between dev and prod
• Templated...how?