Presenting: Django appreciation week

I'm officially declaring next week Django appreciation week. And there is reason to celebrate -- all of the "big bugs" that derailed us the last time we tried to turn django into our primary content management system have now been fixed, tested, and are working.

We'll spend next week getting everyone -- reporters, copy editors, designers, photographers, graphic artists -- trained in the ways django. After that, the tech guys can start re-imaging the iMacs. A few notes about reimaging:

-- All of the iMacs will get more memory.

-- Reporter stations will not have Falcon on them.

-- Some of the iMacs will move back to the copy desk. This will allow all the copy editors to actually sit together and work together instead of being strung out all across the room on nightside.

-- Software will be updated, so we'll have all the latest browsers on all computers (including the ability to see Flash).

It's imperative that we all make some time to get trained in django next week. We've tried to set up the queue system so that it's similar to Falcon. Noah and TJ have done all they can to make it easy to use. So don't be afraid of the big, bad Django. It's better than it's ever been, which is to say it's really easy to use.

Here is the training schedule for next week. Please tell your students to get as many of them there as possible. I'll be putting up fliers as well.

Tuesday, Sept. 2 -- 5:30 p.m. in the conference room (308)
Wednesday -- 10 a.m. in the budget area
Thursday -- During the 11 a.m. budget meeting
Friday -- 10 a.m. in the budget area.

I'm also happy to schedule other training times if these times won't work.

Hope to see you all next week for django appreciation week!

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