How Django helped us make a better conference website

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Replaces an aging monolith called zookeeper with a Django-based stack that reuses existing apps: Wagtail CMS for editorial pages, django-wiki integrated into site templates, and symposium for CFP and scheduling plus a new registration package for complex ticketing. Development setup drops from brittle custom scripts to pip/venv, organizers get fewer support tickets (missing dinner-code fixes eliminated), pages become modular and community-contributable, and remaining work focuses on decoupling symposium forks and making registration a reusable app.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 3:40Replacing Zookeeper
3. 8:10Adopting the Django stack
4. 10:42Key Django apps and tools
5. 16:13Solving registration issues
6. 18:03Project outcomes and lessons
7. 21:37Q&A session

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