Django People
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 2:27 am. 1 comment
I happened upon a pretty cool site today built in Django and focused on the Django community. It’s called Django People, and it’s a giant community of… people who use Django! They did a really good job with the site. It actually really impresses me with how much functionality they packed into it. It’s nearly a full fledged social network. There were fun new things to do around every corner.
The first step, which is the primary feature of the site, is choosing your location. The interface is a little buggy and kludgy for my tastes, but after a few tries I managed to get my location down right. You can upload an icon, add sites that you have worked on, add tags for your interests (nginx is of course one of my tags!), specify whether or not you’re open to work opportunities, and a ton more. It also gives you ways to get in touch with others near you, as well as ways for people to get in touch with you by showing things like your Twitter site, your AIM account, and other things.
Overall the guys (should I say, guy and gal) who developed Django People did a great job. The design, although sufficient and easy to use, isn’t very gorgeous at all, but it’s fun to use and should prove to be a helpful tool as more Django developers begin to use it.
Wow, you must have signed up at about exactly the same time as me. Spooky.