Hi Tim, Thanks for bringing it up. Yes, we will have developers who will engage with Django developers (like yourself) during the workshop.
The goals of the October workshop are to: 1) Get to know each other and begin building a relationship 2) Get in a room with Microsoft developers and discuss the current landscape 3) Work on half day coding sprint(s) with Microsoft developers to get started with contributions 4) Establish a plan for how Microsoft can best contribute to Django, and ensure we have great integration between Azure SQL and MSSQL and Django by maintaining our contributions The key takeaway is that we want to contribute to existing solutions to improve the Django and MSSQL/Azure SQL story. To do so we want to understand the current landscape, the gaps, and the next steps to make this happen (the right way). We are currently in the planning stages and would love to get feedback. What do you think about the goals mentioned above? Is there anything you like to add/remove? We can definitely make attending via Skype an option for attendees unable to make it in person. Best, Meet On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 11:33:40 AM UTC-7, Tim Graham wrote: > > By "we" do you mean the engineers at Microsoft who will be working on > this? Will they be doing any planning for this before the meet up in > October? I'd like to know more specifics about the agenda and goals for the > workshop. > > Also, I wanted to make sure my question about a videoconferencing option > for Django developers interested in participating in the discussion at that > time but unable to travel to Seattle didn't get lost. > > On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 7:53:48 PM UTC-4, Meet Bhagdev wrote: >> >> >> Absolutely agree with Tim here. We need to start exploring all the cool >> open sourced third party adapters. Borrowing/adopting them definitely seems >> like the way to go about things instead of re inventing the wheel. I tried >> doing some research and came across the following: >> >> 1. Django-mssql <https://bitbucket.org/Manfre/django-mssql/src> >> >> 2. Django-pymssql <https://github.com/aaugustin/django-pymssql> >> >> 3. Django-pyodbc-azure <https://github.com/michiya/django-pyodbc-azure> >> >> 4. Django-pyodbc <https://github.com/avidal/django-pyodbc> >> >> >> Am I missing any? >> >> Best, >> Meet >> >> On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 11:12:44 AM UTC-7, Tim Graham wrote: >>> >>> I guess the first step is to identify which third-party backend(s) we'll >>> target to adopt officially (or at least borrow from heavily). For example, >>> will we need separate backends for MSSQL and Azure? (Knowing nothing about >>> the landscape myself, this question could be nonsensical.) Is this >>> discussion something that should happen before the October summit? It seems >>> to me the face-to-face time will likely be more productive if we have some >>> of the high-level details ironed out. >>> >>> By the way, is videoconferencing an option for Django developers >>> interested in participating in the discussion at that time but unable to >>> travel to Seattle? >>> >>> On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 5:53:37 PM UTC-4, Shai Berger wrote: >>>> >>>> On Saturday 22 August 2015 13:28:31 Aymeric Augustin wrote: >>>> >>>> > >>>> >>>> > There isn’t such a clear story for running Django on Linux. This led >>>> me to >>>> >>>> > write https://github.com/aaugustin/django-pymssql. Alternatives >>>> include >>>> >>>> > https://github.com/denisenkom/django-sqlserver and >>>> >>>> > https://github.com/lionheart/django-pyodbc. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> There's also django-pyodbc-azure >>>> <https://github.com/michiya/django-pyodbc-azure/>, a fork of >>>> django-pyodbc (actually, the current django-pyodbc is also a fork of the >>>> original project, which has been discontinued). I took the liberty to >>>> forward the message to that project. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Shai. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/0b70b91e-00d8-4188-8644-e48286b8a571%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
