Greetings The za.pycon.org site is now live! Thanks to Ruan and Euan for getting it up and running. Feedback from everyone welcome. Sign-ups (name, email address and comment) for attendees and speakers are stored in the database and available via the Django admin interface. Emails to team@za.pycon.org are currently directed to me (Neil -- shout if you want them back). I created an account (pyconza2012@gmail.com) for mail to be sent to, but Google want to check it and that's a little tricky given that they don't appear to be able to SMS me while I'm out of the country. Hopefully I'll be able to sort it out tomorrow somehow. Schiavo Simon
Euan and Ruan: The clouds_bottom.png is pretty hefty (~650K) and yellow_pattern.jpg file is quite big (~170K) too. Any possibility we could reduce those in size somehow? These are probably more obvious to me because I'm connecting over a slow connection from Rwanda, but I guess a lot of people in Africa viewing the site are going to be in a similar position. Schiavo Simon
Sweet! I've created the @pyconza twitter account. Please let me know who I should send the account details to. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross@praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
Euan and Ruan: The clouds_bottom.png is pretty hefty (~650K) and yellow_pattern.jpg file is quite big (~170K) too. Any possibility we could reduce those in size somehow?
These are probably more obvious to me because I'm connecting over a slow connection from Rwanda, but I guess a lot of people in Africa viewing the site are going to be in a similar position.
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Hi Simon, I'll ask the designer to have a look - when coding it I noticed the same, but thought most dev's would have an OK-ish connection :) Let me get back to you on that. Thanks, Ruan Zeelie *UNOMENA* http://unomena.com | 082 576 5085 On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross@praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
Euan and Ruan: The clouds_bottom.png is pretty hefty (~650K) and yellow_pattern.jpg file is quite big (~170K) too. Any possibility we could reduce those in size somehow?
These are probably more obvious to me because I'm connecting over a slow connection from Rwanda, but I guess a lot of people in Africa viewing the site are going to be in a similar position.
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On 7/3/12, Ruan Zeelie <ruan@unomena.com> wrote:
I'll ask the designer to have a look - when coding it I noticed the same, but thought most dev's would have an OK-ish connection :)
Thanks! Another small issue: The sign-up form pop-up is also slow to load and the submit button doesn't work until the page is completely loaded and the JS has run (I think). This creates a confusing situation where the user can click on the submit button and have nothing happen. Is it possible to make the sign-up page work as soon as it's visible? Maybe just the form action link needs to be set in the template or something?
Also, the site runs with Django's DEBUG=True, this'll kill your site quickly. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross@praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
On 7/3/12, Ruan Zeelie <ruan@unomena.com> wrote:
I'll ask the designer to have a look - when coding it I noticed the same, but thought most dev's would have an OK-ish connection :)
Thanks!
Another small issue: The sign-up form pop-up is also slow to load and the submit button doesn't work until the page is completely loaded and the JS has run (I think). This creates a confusing situation where the user can click on the submit button and have nothing happen. Is it possible to make the sign-up page work as soon as it's visible? Maybe just the form action link needs to be set in the template or something? _______________________________________________ PyCon-ZA mailing list PyCon-ZA@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za
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OH! Will fix. Ruan Zeelie *UNOMENA* http://unomena.com | 082 576 5085 On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Simon de Haan <simon@praekeltfoundation.org>wrote:
Also, the site runs with Django's DEBUG=True, this'll kill your site quickly.
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross@praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
On 7/3/12, Ruan Zeelie <ruan@unomena.com> wrote:
I'll ask the designer to have a look - when coding it I noticed the same, but thought most dev's would have an OK-ish connection :)
Thanks!
Another small issue: The sign-up form pop-up is also slow to load and the submit button doesn't work until the page is completely loaded and the JS has run (I think). This creates a confusing situation where the user can click on the submit button and have nothing happen. Is it possible to make the sign-up page work as soon as it's visible? Maybe just the form action link needs to be set in the template or something? _______________________________________________ PyCon-ZA mailing list PyCon-ZA@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za
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Simon (Cross), please add DEBUG=False to your settings_local.py On Jul 3, 2012 8:46 AM, "Simon de Haan" <simon@praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
Also, the site runs with Django's DEBUG=True, this'll kill your site quickly.
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Simon Cross < simon.cross@praekeltfoundation.org> wrote:
On 7/3/12, Ruan Zeelie <ruan@unomena.com> wrote:
I'll ask the designer to have a look - when coding it I noticed the same, but thought most dev's would have an OK-ish connection :)
Thanks!
Another small issue: The sign-up form pop-up is also slow to load and the submit button doesn't work until the page is completely loaded and the JS has run (I think). This creates a confusing situation where the user can click on the submit button and have nothing happen. Is it possible to make the sign-up page work as soon as it's visible? Maybe just the form action link needs to be set in the template or something? _______________________________________________ PyCon-ZA mailing list PyCon-ZA@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-za
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Hi Simon (2012.07.03_09:35:21_+0200)
Another small issue: The sign-up form pop-up is also slow to load and the submit button doesn't work until the page is completely loaded and the JS has run (I think). This creates a confusing situation where the user can click on the submit button and have nothing happen. Is it possible to make the sign-up page work as soon as it's visible? Maybe just the form action link needs to be set in the template or something?
The issue I ran into here is that I ended up on http://za.pycon.org/register/attendee/ That page doesn't do much when you click Sign Up In fact, when the front page is working, clicking sign up doesn't do anything there, either. In both, I see fairly straightforward errors in my JS console, so presumably these are easily debuggable. (Browser is Firefox 10 on Linux, if that helps) SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ H: +27 21 461 1230 C: +27 72 419 8559
Hi Stefano, Thanks for letting us know - was sure we sorted this out - obviously not. We'll check it out and get it sorted asap. Thanks, Ruan Zeelie *UNOMENA* http://unomena.com | 082 576 5085 On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net>wrote:
Hi Simon (2012.07.03_09:35:21_+0200)
Another small issue: The sign-up form pop-up is also slow to load and the submit button doesn't work until the page is completely loaded and the JS has run (I think). This creates a confusing situation where the user can click on the submit button and have nothing happen. Is it possible to make the sign-up page work as soon as it's visible? Maybe just the form action link needs to be set in the template or something?
The issue I ran into here is that I ended up on http://za.pycon.org/register/attendee/
That page doesn't do much when you click Sign Up
In fact, when the front page is working, clicking sign up doesn't do anything there, either.
In both, I see fairly straightforward errors in my JS console, so presumably these are easily debuggable.
(Browser is Firefox 10 on Linux, if that helps)
SR
-- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ H: +27 21 461 1230 C: +27 72 419 8559
Wuhu! On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Ruan Zeelie <ruan@unomena.com> wrote:
Hi Stefano,
Thanks for letting us know - was sure we sorted this out - obviously not.
We'll check it out and get it sorted asap.
Thanks,
Ruan Zeelie
*UNOMENA* http://unomena.com | 082 576 5085
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net>wrote:
Hi Simon (2012.07.03_09:35:21_+0200)
Another small issue: The sign-up form pop-up is also slow to load and the submit button doesn't work until the page is completely loaded and the JS has run (I think). This creates a confusing situation where the user can click on the submit button and have nothing happen. Is it possible to make the sign-up page work as soon as it's visible? Maybe just the form action link needs to be set in the template or something?
The issue I ran into here is that I ended up on http://za.pycon.org/register/attendee/
That page doesn't do much when you click Sign Up
In fact, when the front page is working, clicking sign up doesn't do anything there, either.
In both, I see fairly straightforward errors in my JS console, so presumably these are easily debuggable.
(Browser is Firefox 10 on Linux, if that helps)
SR
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participants (6)
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Euan Jonker -
Maciej Fijalkowski -
Ruan Zeelie -
Simon Cross -
Simon de Haan -
Stefano Rivera