Three Django Apps in a Trenchcoat: Writing an event management website with not a lot of time
Come and hear how we wrote 3 Django apps in a trenchcoat to run a ~300+ person Scout camp, from making event registration a breeze, to conducting everyone's movements throughout the entire event.
In the last weekend of April this year, we ran Star Trek: Survival (https://startreksurvival.tech), a STEM-focussed, Star Trek-themed scout camp for all ages, 5 to 26 years. This talk will be about the software we wrote, including a registration system, the Star Trek Survival main website, and a system called RadioActiv8, which is used to keep track of where everyone is across the campsite, and send them to activities when there is capacity to do so. All of this was combined into a single project for maximum integration and ease of use.
Matt (they/them) is a queer, autistic, non-binary human with ADHD, from the lands of Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation (so-called Melbourne, Australia). They have a long background in Linux systems admin and software development, as well as strong interests in communication, empathy, consent, openness and transparency, privacy and security, diversity and inclusion. Matt identifies as a generalist, polymath, or multi-potentialite, and their breadth of interests often give them a unique perspective on how to relate to, and mediate between, people of different specialities.
Luke (he/him) is a human that enjoys making community experiences better for everyone. He is an Amateur Radio operator, and is currently the State Leader: Communication Technologies for Scouts Victoria. He enjoys long walks on the beach, tinkering with his homelab, and then calling @mattcen to assist when things break earlier than they are expected to. Luke is passionate about achieving simplicity from complexity, and creating efficient and effective resources. Sometimes this even occurs in the right order...