= September 2007 Django sprint =

On Friday, Sept. 14, 2007, we're going to have a sprint to try and reduce the open ticket count. See the [http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/c1b25ec884c35947 original announcement] to django-dev for some details.

Developers around the world, both new and experienced, have already expressed much interest in participating, so there should be people available to help in most time zones.

== What is a sprint? ==

Basically, a Django sprint is an excuse for people to focus their undivided attention, for a set time frame, on improving Django. We'll communicate via the Internet, and the people in Chicago and Mountain View (if, indeed, that option pans out) will just have a focused place to gather, along with better communication and the other benefits of
face-to-face interaction.

Anybody can participate and contribute, and there's no obligation or expectation. If you've never contributed to Django before, this is the perfect chance for you to chip in.

== To do ==

Between now and next Friday (or on the day), we need to

 * Create an IRC channel for the event.
 * Write up a list of things that newcomers can do, particularly how to help triaging bugs.
 * Work out a way to easily pass "possibly ready" bugs to people with commit privileges.

== Attendees ==

=== In person (Chicago, USA -- at Google Chicago) ===

 * Matt Dorn
 * Adrian Holovaty
 * Deryck Hodge
 * Adam Jenkins (if it's at Google)
 * Jacob Kaplan-Moss
 * Joseph Kocherhans
 * Chris !McAvoy
 * Paul Smith
 * Clint Ecker (if at Google)
 * Jake Elliott
 * Tamas Kemenczy

=== In person (Mountain View, Calif., USA -- at Google main HQ) ===

 * David Cramer
 * Brian Harring
 * Jason Yan
 * Sean Wang (in the evening)

=== In person (Copenhagen, Denmark) - at No House IT ===
 * Nis Jørgensen 
 * Niels Sandholt Busch 

=== In person (Lawrence, Kansas, USA) — likely somewhere downtown ===
 '''Note:''' This location will likely be virtual until evening Friday, CDT (UTC-5).
 * James Bennett
 * Matt Croydon
 * Christian Metts
 * Tom Tobin

=== In person (Lima, Peru) - at Aureal Systems HQ ===
 * Fernando Gutierrez
 * Gustavo Picon
 * Jackson Torres
 * Jean-Pierre Chauvel
 * Raul Santa-Maria

=== In person (Boulder, Colorado, USA) - Matt's house Friday?, bivio office Saturday ===
 * Brian Rosner
 * Ian Kelly
 * Jim Baker
 * Matt Boersma
 
=== Online ===

Add your name below, in alphabetical order by first name (as no one did order it by last name ;) -- Florian Apolloner )

 * Aaron Lee (Shanghai, China)
 * Alexander Solovyov (Kiev, Ukraine)
 * Allagappan M (Bangalore, India)
 * Andrews Medina (Brazil)
 * Ben Ford (Indonesia, GMT +6)
 * Bruce Kroeze (Portland, OR)
 * Craig Ogg (Long Beach, California, USA)
 * Daniel Morgan (Lafayette, LA, US)
 * Daniel Roseman (London, UK)
 * David Schein (Easthampton, MA, USA)
 * Dimitris Glezos (UK)
 * Elliot Murphy (Florida, USA)
 * Eric Brown (Tampa, FL, USA)
 * Florian Apolloner (Klagenfurt, Austria)
 * Frankie Robertson (UK)
 * Fredrik Sundqvist (Sweden)
 * Gallego Pang (China)
 * Gary Wilson (Texas, USA)
 * Grzegorz Ślusarek (Poland)
 * Guaraglia David (Brazil)
 * Honza Král (Prague, Czech Republic)
 * Ilya Semenov (Russia)
 * James Tauber (Boston, MA, USA)
 * Jan Češpivo (Prague, Czech Republic)
 * Jan Killian (Prague, Czech Republic)
 * Jannis Leidel (Germany)
 * Jason Davies (Cambridge, UK)
 * Jeromie Rand (Greenville, SC, USA)
 * Justin Bronn (Houston, TX, USA)
 * Keith Bussell (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
 * Koen Biermans (Belgium, Europe)
 * KS Jun (Seoul, Korea, GMT +9)
 * Lukáš Linhart (Czech Republic)
 * Malcolm Tredinnick (Sydney, Australia)
 * Marc Garcia (Barcelona, Europe)
 * Martin Winkler  (Austria) 
 * Matt !McClanahan (Portland, OR, US)
 * Michael Mao (Vancouver, Canada)
 * Michael Radziej (Germany)
 * Mitja Martini (Berlin, Germany)
 * Nathaniel Whiteinge (Ogden, UT)
 * Nick Efford (Leeds, UK)
 * Nicola Larosa (Italy)
 * Olivier Collioud (France)
 * Placid (UK)
 * Rajesh Dhawan (Piermont, NY, USA)
 * Russell Keith-Magee (Perth, Australia)
 * Seth Buntin (Nashville, TN)
 * Shu Cho (Nanking, China, GMT +8)
 * Simon Greenhill (Auckland, New Zealand)
 * Simon Litchfield (Gold Coast, Australia)
 * Simon Willison (Brighton, UK)
 * Spike Bae (Korea)
 * Suriya Subramanian (Austin, Texas, USA)
 * Tyler Tarabula (New York, NY, USA)
 * Vikrant Rathore (Shanghai, China or Hong Kong)
 * Ville Säävuori (Finland)
 * Vivek Puri (Singapore)
 * Vsevolod Solovyov (Kiev, Ukraine)
 * Wilane Ousmane (Dakar, Senegal)
 * Wiliam Alves de Souza (Brazil)
 * Yuri Baburov (Novosibirsk, Russia, GMT+6)