[Events] Changing from AppEngine to a different, free-of-cost Django web hosting

[Deborah Nicholson]

I have every confidence that the tutorial will be great!

We should probably do a dry run of the bit where we make sure people have
the things installed that they'll need installed. Preferably with at least
one windows machine and one mac for practice.

Cheers,
Deb

On 28 February 2011 14:53, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>
>  http://www.alwaysdata.com/ offers free Django hosting.
>>
>> I'm working on the tutorial now, and I can put together a really really
>> nice git-based deployment workflow for people. I'll be writing that up and
>> working through the kinks this weekend.
>>
>> If for some reason someone wants to object to this, then do so soon,
>> please. I think it'll actually end up being pretty nice.
>>
>
> Okay, so here is the current status:
>
> Given that we are using Alwaysdata, we can have people go through the
> official Django tutorial. I *am* behind schedule on providing a totally
> ready-for-Saturday version of it, but I've begun sketching it out at
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_workshop/Saturday/Web_app_project. I made a bunch of decisions over the weekend that mean that it's now going
> to be just a task of doing the writing and testing.
>
> With Deb's feedback, I'll trivially modify the poll so that there are
> images attached to them; she suggested that would make it more interesting.
>
> I know I said I'd have it done by today afternoon, but I overslept on a nap
> that was supposed to help me get over some jet lag... and now I have to do
> my day job for a bit. Mega frownies.
>
> But I think I can ship a usable beta of the tutorial by this time tomorrow.
> It'll require some focused time on it, but that's much easier now that I can
> just sit at my desktop and do that. My work on the tutorial will mostly be
> be adding a few steps here and there for interfacing with Alwaysdata, so
> that people can see how to deploy their work.
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
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