Who is your audience?

Great, who are you?

Just a dude, who ran into Django, and uses it for everything now

Where do you start?

• The tutorial
• Something else that they can build, from green pastures With code reviews.
• THEN get them working on your code.

What are (some of) the pain points?

• ORM - reverse relations, migrations
• Forms - What do I use? Custom Widgets? custom data? custom
• Where does it go?
• Existing methods? or Write my own?
• Urls - This is something that I got caught up in for the longest time.

Issac's First Axiom: If it's hard, and you're new, you're probably doing it wrong

There's a method for that.

Example: Clearing the URL cache

"The Django Way of doing this"

or - Don't fight the system, until you're assured victory

You could definitely do that, there are a variety of ways you could go down that path

Don't fight the system until you really understand it

Stand On the Shoulders of Giants

• Learn this, if nothing else
• Deployment. Don't start here
• Consultants, tutorials, Con Vids

Get Help

• irc.freenode.net#django
• django-users mailing list
• Stack Overflow
• user groups (and ug mailing lists)

Give Help

• All of those places
• Fork projects
• Report, verify and fix bugs in 3rd party apps
• Make your projects open source when you can