Speaker Profile: Tracy Osborn (@limedaring)
Tracy Osborn is a designer, developer, and entreprenerd living in the Bay Area of California. She’s the author of Hello Web App, teaching beginner web app development. Building websites since she was twelve, she always felt an affinity to computers, the internet, and what it brings us.
Tracy graduated with a BFA in Art & Design with a concentration in Graphic Design from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and worked as a web designer for five years before teaching herself programming and launching her first startup, WeddingLovely. She’s also an avid outdoorswoman and would love to go on a hike with you.
Tracy will be super busy at PyTN running a two part Hello Web App Tutorial on Saturday and Sunday at 3PM and Designing for Non-Designers at 2PM Saturday.
Designing for Non-Designers
Designing, when you are a programmer, can be super intimidating. This talk will highlight the best ways to improve your design and UX skills so you can create an interfaces that are usable and at least semi-attractive without hiring a designer — guaranteed no designer-y jargon.
Hello Web App Workshop
This workshop will walk you through creating a basic web app using Python and Django, from ideation to deployment. Set up your first web product with a database, registration and login forms, and perhaps get on the path to a fun side-project or future startup. Tailored for designers and non-programmers and taught by a designer. The first 20 attendees will get a copy of the Hello Web App book as well.
Sponsor Profile: Pinax Project (@pinaxproject)
Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps and providing starter projects and infrastructure tools, Pinax takes care of the things that many sites have in common so you can focus on what makes your site different.
Pinax has been used for everything from social networks to conference websites, and from intranets to online games.