For more information about sprints in general, read the SprintIntroduction page. SteveHolden has a useful [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html article] in the [http://www.onlamp.com/python/ OnLamp Python DevCenter ] on how to run a sprint.

Date/time

• November 4, 2006 (Saturday), 9 AM - 6 PM

Location

[http://www.bivio.biz bivio Software, Inc.], 28th and Iris. Above Hair Elite in Suite S. [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2701+Iris+Ave.,+Boulder+CO&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=A Google Maps link]

Thanks to Alex Viggio, Eric Dobbs, and Rob Nagler of bivio for generously providing us this sprint space.

Projects

Complete support for Oracle in Django in time for 1.0. Suggested by Matt Boersma.

Specifically, we would like to build on the good work already done by the Django community to produce a single patch that can be applied to current subversion sources, enabling Django's ORM to pass basic tests against an Oracle database. The current patches available have Oracle-specific conditional tests in many locations; we will try to confine such code to the django.db.backends.oracle package.

References

The bug report stipulating Oracle support by Django version 1.0 is here: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1990

Participants

1. Jim Baker
2. Matt Boersma, Aries
3. Eric Dobbs
4. Ian Kelly
5. Matt Drew, Capricorn
6. Michelle Cyr, Cancer
7. Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the original Django developers!
8. Malcolm Tredinnick (working remotely from Sydney)

Post Sprint Party

Some of us are planning to go to the [http://www.bouldercuba.org/ Cuban Connection fundraiser], 6 PM - 1 AM, St. Julien Hotel (our favorite meeting place for FrontRangePythoneers). In addition to raising money for a good cause, this will be a chance to stretch our weary coding muscles while dancing salsa to Quemando and Havana NRG.