= 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

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

=== 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)
 * Allagappan M (Bangalore, India)
 * Andrews Medina (Brazil)
 * Ben Ford (Indonesia, GMT +6)
 * Brian Rosner (Denver, CO, USA)
 * Bruce Kroeze (Portland, OR)
 * Craig Ogg (Long Beach, California, USA)
 * Daniel Morgan (Lafayette, LA, US)
 * 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)
 * Honza Král (Prague, Czech Republic)
 * Ilya Semenov (Russia)
 * James Bennett (Kansas, USA)
 * 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)
 * Malcolm Tredinnick (Sydney, Australia)
 * Marc Garcia (Barcelona, Europe)
 * Martin Winkler  (Austria) 
 * Matt !McClanahan (Portland, OR, US)
 * Matt Boersma (Boulder, CO, USA)
 * Michael Mao (Vancouver, Canada)
 * Michael Radziej (Germany)
 * Mitja Martini (Berlin, Germany)
 * Nathaniel Whiteinge (Ogden, UT)
 * Nick Efford (UK)
 * Nicola Larosa (Italy)
 * Placid (UK)
 * Russell Keith-Magee (Perth, Australia)
 * 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)
 * Wilane Ousmane (Dakar, Senegal)
 * Wiliam Alves de Souza (Brazil)