Guten Morgen

Speaker 1: Guten Morgen, Heidelberg. Herzlich willkommen. Thanks to all of you for coming for DjangoCon Europe twenty eighteen Which is the tenth Django Con Europe. As usual, we have to start off with a bit of housekeeping. And uh yeah, we get through this rather quickly and then get the conference running. There are a couple of organizers on site. Feel free to talk to us every time, whenever you need something and you can't figure out um how to do or how to get something. We are here to help. Also, if you s have any questions, talk to anybody with a blue lanyard.

Speaker 1: These. um how to fix the problem or whatever you're facing. We got a wardrobe. So the weather is warm, supp or at least supposed to be for this week It's supposed to rain occasionally as well though. So when you get in in the morning or go out for a break and come back, you'll have a wet coat There's a wardrobe at the begin um entrance main entrance, except for going up the stairs to the reception. Go down the side stairs. There's a wardrobe. Put your wet wardrobe there please. Wet coats, wet jackets It's staffed all day by the venue, so

Speaker 1: it should be fairly safe, but we as organizers can't take responsibility for that And then there's stuff like coffee lunch sponsors, which is over there through those doors over there. There is a smoking area. F also through there, but then go outside and if possible please do not stand right in the entrances but take a few steps to the side so people can go through the entrances without running through the smoke There's a help desk at reception in the the middle one probably. And there's toilets like all over the place. We have gendered and all gendered bathrooms. Use the ones you're comfortable with and The people who know are in there, they know they are at the right one.

Speaker 1: So that's not up for discussion.

Speaker 2: So um We have a code of conduct, you know this, and you all agree to it because otherwise you can't register for a ticket. And our code of conduct is here to Make sure everyone to try as possible feels safe, feels welcome, feels included at this conference. It means that we take every report seriously. We have a documented process. It's public on our website of how we deal with the report And basically when something happens we can it can range anywhere from taking no action if it's not a violation. Most common is that we talk to someone and we demand that they stop certain behavior. Uh but in more severe cases we will also not hesitate to remove someone from the conference immediately, cancel a talk or things like that. These are not common issues, but they are option

Speaker 2: decisions, but they are options that are open if necessary. If you have any concerns, then we have a code of conduct team, these four people, we have an email address which is only read by these four. You can approach any of us in person If you aren't sure whether something that happened to you or something that you saw is an issue under the code of conduct or whether the code of conduct applies to that space, then feel free to just talk to us. Like we don't look badly on people who report something and then we find it's not a violation. Also if you've reported something and something else happens, you can report as many times as you want if you feel that is necessary We have a phone number also. That is a phone number for code of conduct issues, so please don't phone to ask what the weather will be today and whether you need to bring a jacket

Speaker 2: because she will wake someone up. We also have a photo policy. So if you wear a black lanyard, you're saying photos are okay. If you take like very obvious pictures of someone, it's still good to ask for permission. White lanyard means no photos. If you've changed your mind, you can all now figure out that you're wearing the wrong one. You can always come to the desk and change one for another one. We have a quiet room. It's basically right upstairs here. So you take the stairs over there and that is a room for people who need a bit of quiet space. There's some seats, there's some desks there. You're allowed to work there. Uh but most importantly keep it quiet, make space for people who need a bit of distance from the conference and from the busyness of it all

Speaker 2: We also have a few niceties. If you've been in the bathrooms, we have bathroom baskets there with all sorts of toiletries. Um They are sponsored by AX Semantics. We also have painkillers and other drugs like that at registration. So feel free to take anything from the bathroom boxes that you need. Don't take all of it. It's for sharing with other people. And We also have pronoun buttons at the registration desk. You may have seen them when you came in, so feel free to take more than one. Feel free to change them and you can use them to help people get to know you a little better. And lastly we have the speech to text plus sponsored by DVO. And there are a few seats in the front here. that are reserved for people that

Speaker 2: need to sit close to be able to read the text. Because if you're old and in the back, it's a bit tricky. So please make those seats available if needed to people who need to see the text up close. Um we have a conference hashtag. It's DjangoCon. We're on Twitter as DjangoCon Europe. Our official emoji is the European castle because as you may have seen, Jang uh this city has a castle. Uh I've not actually been there, but I hear it's very nice. We have a Slack channel. If you haven't gotten an invite yet to our Slack channel, then check your email because we sent them about two weeks ago. Ask around, you can ask us for the link also and we'll we'll invite you. Of course, at the Slack channel, the code of conduct also applies as it does basically to

Speaker 2: all our events You might especially want to join the social channel and the announcements channel. And also We like to be an open community. There are a lot of people here. Who's actually here for the first time? First DjangoCon ever. Wow, that's a lot. So we encourage you to get to know people. get to know new people uh and so we have uh two specific rules that we like to suggest to you. They're more like guidelines than rules. Uh so one is the Pac-Man rule if you stand with people in a circle in the coffee room or something Then leave some space for other people to join instead of forming an entirely closed circle, in other words, stand like a Pac-Man. And also

Speaker 2: uh the community plus plus rule which says uh for every year that you've been to DjangoCon try to meet that many people new people every day so this is my ninth DjangoCon Europe so I should try to meet nine people a day new people If this is your first, you only have to meet one person. They're more like guidelines, not actual rules. But we hope these kind of things encourage you to meet new people and become part of the community.

Speaker 3: As you might have seen, we've got Wi Fi at the venue. The SSID is DjangoCon Europe and the password is pip install Django. We've also put that up on posters both in the entrance area and in the break room Um keep in mind that this building is over a hundred and ten years old and it wasn't built for Wi Fi and Internet connection. So our network team um spent eleven hours yesterday setting up the network to be As good as possible, but um there is a limit to what we can do in this building. So please be gentle, disable your automatic updates and um be responsible in what you use the network for. To the schedule. We have talks right here on that stage for all today, tomorrow and Friday.

Speaker 3: On every of those days we will have two coffee breaks, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one lunch break. The breaks will take place to your left. You can find the exact times and the programs you all got at the registration or you can still get a printed program there. We will have lightning talks in the last slot on every of those three days. If you haven't heard what lightning talks are before, lightning talks are talks that can take up to five minutes. So we want to have a series of very short talks from a very wide range of community members. We will have buckets at the registration desk set up very soon where you can put in an index card with your name and the topic until the end of the lunch break of the respective day. We will then

Speaker 3: until the starge of the afternoon break um select uh a few of those talks t for for that slot We will have separate buckets for people who have never spoken at a major conference before and a bucket for everyone else. So we try to make a balance and make it easier to get in for new people. We expect that there will be more submissions than we can issue slots say if ye if you're not selected for the day Please feel free to put it in on the next day. Again, it's not a valuation and not a value judgment of your talk. It's just that we need to need to balance it some way Feel also free to submit multiple talks if you want. And we will hang the list of the selected talks near the registration desk for the afternoon break

Speaker 3: On Saturday and Sunday, we will have sprints and workshops at Detsarat 16, which is close to the central station If you've never been at a sprint before, it's basically all of us gathering in a room to spend some time contributing to open source and community projects. It's a great way to get started even if you have never contributed to an open source project before because there's lots of people in the room eager to help you. We will have a detailed intro into how that works on Friday and how to contribute to open source projects and Django in specific. So I'm gonna leave that for now. And we'll also have a number of workshops that you can find on the printed program on Friday. Those workshops will have limited space um but we will have no pre-registration so please just show up in time for them

Speaker 3: and we will just let as many people in as the room fits Tomorrow night we will have the birthday party for the 10th DjangoCon Europe. It will be at Halle-Nulzwei, which is also pretty close to the central station, and we will have more details on the party in the introduction tomorrow. On Friday morning we are planning to offer a morning run with a guide. Um the meeting time play time and place for that would be eight a. m. at the main entrance. Can we do a sh quick show of hands? Would be Theoretically interested in joining that. Okay. Now you do realize that's the morning after the party? Okay. Also, inspired by what the 2015 edition of DjangoCon Europe and Cardiff did, they had a a program

Speaker 3: with psychological coaches on there who could you who you could schedule a session with we want to tackle a different topic that is a problem in our community. Mental health is still a very important issue in our community that we need to talk about a lot. But what's also important is physical health. Humans are not built for sitting at a desk all day and we'll have a trainer on site on Friday who will show exercises to get a better and healthier posture. and stuff like that on Friday. So we will announce more details on that on Friday as well. Um During registration for your ticket, we asked you if you have any allergies or things you can't eat. And if you fill that in at least two weeks before today, we've got you covered. There will be something to eat for you

Speaker 3: Everything should be labeled. There will also be a sign with all the allergens in the different uh in the different food. If you're not sure, just ask us or one of the cooks behind them uh the buffet. They they know it all. Um yep.

Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. Um Just a few announcements about behavior during the talks. I think that's all very much common sense and I just want to mention it in case of course we'd like to ask you to be relatively quiet during a talk It's just respectful for the speaker and also our talks are going to be fascinating and amazing and really, really cool. So you just want to listen. But it just kinda happened that you want to leave the room because maybe you just want to take a quick breath of uh air or you want to Join the quiet room upstairs there because you need a moment for yourself or you want to talk to somebody, all of that is perfectly fine Uh we'd like to ask you to use the back doors

Speaker 4: which will be open on both sides during talks and try to be quiet. They are old doors and it's not quite easy, but if you're careful it will be alright. Also, some speakers choose to take questions at the end of their talk. Not all of them do. But if speakers do take questions, we will have microphones for you to use. um at least in the middle of the room and probably at the sides. And we'd like to ask you to actually ask questions. I know it's very, very tempting if a speaker talks about something you have a strong opinion on to go up there and voice that opinion. But the time and place for comments is elsewhere. We offer, for example, a talks channel where you can start a civilized discussion of the issues, but please leave the space of the open questions for actual questions.

Speaker 4: Thank you Also, I'd like to ask you, uh for the same reason of of respect uh towards the speaker and not annoying all the people around you, to put your phones on quiet So if you have the Slack app and your phone just goop or beep or brrrrr, then uh please check your Slack notification settings or your phone notification settings We have a live video streaming available of all the talks at streaming. media. cc. de. We also will have recordings live a few days after the respective talk at most. We have to thank the Video Operations Center, the VOG, of the Chaos Computer Club, a German volunteer organization, for that.

Speaker 4: They're here and they're available for us and many other open source conferences and they're amazing. They build their own cases for recording hardware and they Do also good things with open source software around the whole recording and streaming theme and we thank them very much. Ah, also we had a few changes to the program. We were able to contain those changes uh to uh day one. So we'd like to ask you to uh check the online program for today and not trust the printed program too much. a few talks have been shuffled around. So the break times are still on, nothing major has changed. We had to cancel, sadly, two talks due to personal reasons

Speaker 4: and also a visa issue that is very, very sad. And uh we have adjusted by moving some talks and also adding lightning talks in the end of today. Right. That's about it. Let's talk about our sponsors. First of all, we'd like to thank all of our sponsors. Most of all, our platinum sponsor, GoDaddy. Sponsorship is a very hard issue among conferences. We managed to find one platinum sponsor and a lot of gold sponsors. You can meet all of them if you head through there Once you get your food or your drinks, they have booths there and they're eager to meet you and we hope you like to meet them as well And they've been amazing to us and extremely helpful.

Speaker 4: We would like to extend special thanks to DVO. for helping us provide the live speech to text captioning that you can see on the screens to the side of the stage because it makes the conference much more accessible to many groups of people. Not only people who can't hear or who can't hear well, but also for example people who aren't too fluent in English. uh both speakers and and attendees, uh it makes the conference much more understandable and accessible to them. Thank you. We have many other sponsors and as an open source conference we rely on them heavily. It would be very hard to make the conference work without them and it would be nearly impossible to make it accessible both due to services like the speech to text captioning, but also because the tickets would be

Speaker 4: very expensive and expensive to a degree that most people active in open source community who aren't actively employed within that community can't make. We have been able to offer tickets for individual students for below 200 euros, which is the best we could do, and we're pretty proud of that. And without our amazing sponsors, we would have been forced to go above 400 euros instead. So we're really, really thankful there. We also wouldn't have been able to offer our opportunity grants program without them. We had several sponsors, both from the open source community and past conferences or other conferences. um help us out with opportunity grant sponsoring which allowed us to

Speaker 4: uh offer financial assistance to people who are underrepresented in the whole tech area and the Django community and also to people who just plain could not afford to travel to a conference and attend a conference like this. Thank you all. Now next up I'd like to uh actually proceed to our first talk. Um we have a keynote speaker, Emma Gordon, who will now present to you her talk.