Who's coming to DjangoDotJune?

Feel free to add yourself to this list. If you like, include any of these: a description of yourself, links, definitely/maybe/possibly status, anything you might want to talk about or do with the group.

Update (2007-06-01) - please also send me your email address so I can put together an announcement list. I may not need to use it at all, but in the event of last-minute changes or other important developements I'd like to be able to get news out. Thanks!

  • Paul Bissex - I'm the organizer, if you can call it organizing. I teach web design and do in-house web and database development at The Hallmark Institute of Photography. I run dpaste. I have a blog. I'm planning to give some kind of short talk about Django and version control.
  • Jeff Forcier - I'm currently a developer for a forensics firm and I use Django for pretty much all my in-house projects as well as some client work. I live in NYC but grew up near Northampton, so it's easy for me to attend :D No specific plans for a talk, but I'm always up for just talking with other devs in general and teaching whatever I might know that others don't know as much about.
  • Adrian Holovaty - I live in Chicago but will be in town for the Django In June gypsy-jazz festival. I work at washingtonpost.com and have a blog. I'll give some sort of talk about future Django features.
  • Lou Franco - I live in Northampton. I am building a personal Django-based website in my "free time".
  • David Schein - I live in the next town over, work at GCC where I use Django, enjoy music and the path of least resistance, both apropos of Django or some referent thereof.
  • Jeff Hobbs - I'm interested in learning more about Django as a framework.
  • Ray Cote - I live in Peterborough, NH. Been working on a few small Django sites. Have a simple ecommerce application for driving external shopping carts. Looking forward to getting together with other Django enthusiasts. My company web site http://www.AppropriateSolutions.com/ was recently revamped and is now Django-driven. Hope to have 1 or 2 more Django sites up and running by mid-June.
  • Chas Emerick - I live in work in Holyoke, MA (also one town "over"). I'm the founder of a local software company. I'm more of a pylons guy at the moment, but I'm always keeping my hands dirty. [Chas let me know that he will unfortunately be out of town this weekend.]
  • David Krauth - Senior web developer for OASIS, where I am using Django to rebuild our specification library interface
  • Doug Napoleone - I live in Worcester, MA and I used Django to write the PyCon Conference Management Software. I hope to have a few more Django sites up soon. (also a Senior Research Software Engineer at Nuance working on speech recognition)
  • Raman Prasad - I am a developer in the boston area (jamaica plain) and have used django for several "pro bono" side projects--this has led to using it at work on the administrative side.
  • Loren Davie - I'm the senior tech lead at Alexander Interactive in New York City, where we've launched a whole bunch of Django sites. I have a blog. I'm still working out details but I hope to make it.
  • Kevin Menard - I work for Servprise International, Inc., a Worcester-based IT product company. We use django internally and I'm looking at redoing our public dev site in django. My IRC handle is "nirvdrum", if that helps anyone.
  • Anders Conbere - I'm not long out of college and looking for a programming position, I've been playing with Django for a while now, with numerous projects of my own and at work. My IRC handle is "aconbere". Maybe (depends on lots of things)
  • Philip Cadigan - I'm in. I've been using Django for about a year, most notably in a project called rPapers. For those on the fence, Northampton has some delicious food.
  • Sean Patrick Hogan - A web developer working for the UUA in Boston and living in Waltham over the summer. I will be launching a few production Django sites in the near future.
  • Chip Kaye - I'm a developer and live/work in Northampton, MA at the Daily Hampshire Gazette (oldest continually published newspaper in the US, founded 1756). I'm currently working as part of a redesign/redevelopment project to move the DHG site from Cold Fusion to Drupal. I haven't had a chance to work w/Django in production yet, but have enjoyed studying and following its evolution since viewing Jacob K-M's Google Tech Talk last year. Very cool that Adrian will be attending.
  • Jay Graves - I am a software engineer living in Denver CO, I recently released the Django based web app http://bardiver.com. I also run the software blog http://socialistsoftware.com. I just bought my plane ticket so I will definitely be there.
  • Nnanna Obuba - I am brand new to web development , I figured I would start with Django since I know some Python. I will be driving up from New Jersey, and can give someone a ride if they need it.
  • Moses Ting - I'm an engineer/software developer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. I've been using (and loving) Django for a variety of web-based command systems and small web applications.
  • Julia West - I'm a web developer in Boston. I've used Django while working at a startup last year, as well as for several side projects.
  • PK Shiu - Boston based consultant Imperial Consulting, Inc. long time python user. Finally tried django as webframework, current first pet project Geardesk.com to try it in a production environment. Attending to learn as a newbie re django.
  • Birkin James Diana - I'm a programmer at Brown University and use and love python extensively. I've been experimenting with and am head-over-heels impressed with Django and have a couple of small projects underway.
  • Doug Martin - I'm also a "local" and I'm thinking of using Django for some upcoming projects at my company.
  • Joe Winter - I'm a programmer working for Lycos out in Waltham.
  • Mike Axiak - I'm an MIT student who really likes Django and uses it for http://esp.mit.edu. I'm going to be giving some sort of talk discussing ESP as a case study.
  • Howard Burrows - Live in nearby NH; building a science exchange. http://ausi.org
  • Bill Burton Teach Japanese at Boston University. Interested in Japanese to English website localization/ creation. Have picked up a little Python, SQL and relational database experience along the way but am just learning the ropes.
  • Mark Soper - I am working on an investment research service project in Cambridge, MA. We are experimenting with Django and I'd like to learn more.
  • Charlie Farinella - I work for Appropriate Solutions in NH and have installed Django on a couple of servers, run through the tutorial and would like to learn more.
  • Kai - I've been using Django for a project and am an unabashed python addict.