We are pleased to announce that Django Dose, a Django content site, is now online! We couldn't be more happy that we have the terrific DjangoCon conference to launch this new site. If you're familiar with This Week in Django, you may notice some similarities, and with good reason--Django Dose is the successor to TWiD. It has only taken us way too long to get Django Dose up and running. One of our goals with Django Dose was to completely revamp the internals of the site. We wanted to add much more automation to the process which will help streamline content and make it easier for us to get you all of your Django-related content. We still have a little more ways to go, but we think we're off to a great start.
This Week in Django had the fundamental problem of being tied to a weekly format. While we don't want to change that drastically we felt we needed some change. One of the big things we've changed is that we've broken the podcast into two. We now have Tracking Trunk and Community Catchup. The reason for this was that the two couldn't co-exist very well. There would be weeks where there would be either no changes or simply documentation commits. Those didn't bode well for a weekly podcast that tried to keep the content going. We hated having to not do the tracking trunk segment because there wasn't any commits. Breaking it off now gives us the ability to record/produce the podcast when important content is available.
In addition to breaking off tracking trunk and community catchup we decided to make the callcasts a bigger part of our site. They are now a team effort and we hope to keep them coming. As the site matures and grows, we expect that it won't just stay limited to Tracking Trunk, Community Catchup, and Callcasts. But we can't do it all alone! It is our profound hope that with Django Dose, more people in the community will get involved. If you've got a great idea for an article, audio content, or video content, don't hesitate to drop us a line. We also love guest authors, so we may contact you to ask permission to re-post your great articles on Django Dose, where hopefully they can reach a larger audience.
An obvious change has been the site design. With a new brand we wanted to brand it differently. Greg Newman graciously stepped up to help us out. We can not thank him enough for the work he has put in to making Django Dose look good and work well. The site has been tweaked a bit to feature the content we feel is important.
We've enjoyed DjangoCon so far and we hope you have too! We're really looking forward to hearing back from you about this new version of the site, so if you're at DjangoCon, then make sure to grab us and tell us about your ideas. Oh, and make sure to subscribe, so you can get the latest Django Dose content!
Django Dose is all things Django. Our goal is to deliver quality content regularly as your dose of Django. With a team of dedicated people we are ready to deliver the goods.
