1. How to sell Django
Thursday, September 9, 2010

2. Who are you?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Frank Wiles
Peter Baumgartner
James Tauber
Steve Holden

3. What tools are
available to sell Django?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: whydjango.com and other forthcoming advocacy sites

4. How do you get
customers to stop
throwing good money
after bad efforts?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Open source means you don’t have to fill out budget requests.

5. Since they can be in short
supply, how do you hire or
explain how you will get more
Django developers?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Headhunters, mailing list, linkedin, training. You don’t have to look for Django
developers. Django devs are Python devs. And Python devs are just smart people.

6. How do you fight FUD spread
by people who stand to lose
from Django implementations?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Be nice, don’t argue, show the numbers, transparency.

7. How do you sell
Django to investors?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Productivity, more than the sum of the parts.

8. A quick success story
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: 2 months and 4 developers compared to 7 months, 30 developers, and 300
million dollars.
Had to get past IT department, Enterprise Architecture council. Used loopholes and their own
vocabulary. Can’t bring in new tools but say you “extend this tool that is part of Linux”.