DjangoCon Talk: Additional Notes
First of all: thanks again to all who made DjangoCon.eu possible and who gave me a chance to talk about the major project I was working on for the last two years.
I was pretty excited, because a) it was the first talk about Red Square to a broader public audience and b) it was more of an improvisation because I could chip in on a freed talk slot. This led to the inevitable: I simply forgot some things to mention. Some of it was minor, so I won’t bore you with it, but one thing is very important to me.
Setting the record straight
When you saw the presentation live or have watched the video (not yet online), you might have the impression that Wolfram and Tobias are still on the team and, here comes a good one, I would be the lead of this team. I may be good at what I do, but not (yet) that good! Still laughing my ass off on that one :)
Wolfram and Tobi decided to take on new endeavors with their company Uxebu and provide amazing consulting and development for all things JavaScript & Mobile Web and I’m inclined to say they are leaders in the field of cross-platform mobile app development.
Sorry about the confusion.
Some people were also interested in some things that were not part of this talk by intention or to get a second opinion on some things I said. Here it is:
Why Django is the perfect tech for Red Square
As to the general reason why Django is a perfect option for apps like Red Square, look no further as to this video of Gentry Underwood at Web 2.0 Expo. He gives some of the theories behind the new breed of “social software” (I somewhat don’t like that term) from the perspective of anthropology. If you do social software and have either no clue of anthropology nor an anthropologist on your team you’re doing it wrong.
Gentry mentions Ruby/Rails in this video, which they used for their internal app called Tube. But it holds true for Django as well. BTW: Pointing to him has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I’m an IDEO fanboy!
Why Red Square needs no incentive system
This one comes up regularly in the discussion of open innovation and innovation management: what is the incentive?
Why incentives (even money) do not work, especially for ideation and open innovation is described superbly by this RSA Animate of Dan Pink’s talk called “Drive”. Enuff said!
So, hopefully the talk was somewhat useful for you. I will probably post more about this stuff in the future. See you next year at DjangoCon.eu or at JSConf.eu this year (sans talk).
If you want to know more about Red Square, contact me. I will forward you to the right people at SKYTEC and BMW. We do not actively advertise Red Square on the web, so direct contact is the only way to find out more about the system. Cheers!
