I don't have a lot of slides here, I'm just gonna hold this microphone it's a little easier. So I'm here to just sort of to cover a few of the sort of some

of the basics some of these things had discussed as well so I just sort of skip over them. So as I told you earlier orientation is something that we do here at DjangoCon, excuse me, to help new people become more comfortable, people who are introverted don't like to be in large crowds. So

relating to our COC our code of conduct and if you run into any sorts of violations there or you feel like you need to report an incident. And the reason I point this out in the beginning is because one of the primary concerns that we the organizers have for DjangoCon is that everyone who is at

DjangoCon have a comfortable experience, an experience where they can learn and and meet new people and feel as safe as possible. And it's not a thing that we do because someone told us we should do it. It's not we don't have a code of conduct because everybody else has a code of conduct. We do this we have a code of conduct and we make efforts to enforce the code of conduct and to

let attendees know that the code of conduct is something that we take seriously. We do that because it's actually important to us and it is important to us as the organizers that each of you have the best DjangoCon you can possibly have. And unfortunately if something goes wrong which we hope it doesn't we want you to know that there are things that you

can do. So if you go to the DjangoCon website and how legible is that Tim? How legible is the text on the slides? Okay just what I'm asking Tim because Tim's in the back of the room so I'm hoping people closer it will be more legible for him. So if you go to the website the DjangoCon website there

is to the slash COC you'll see the actual code of conduct listed there. Again we want you to be safe and have a pleasant time all at DjangoCon. If you feel that you need to say something to someone don't be ashamed or don't be embarrassed about that. We literally went through a certain process to have a

code of conduct and have code of conduct violation reporting mechanisms. We did that on purpose because we want you to be able to make use of them if you feel you need to. So I might be it might seem like I'm harping on that point but in a situation with something you feel something goes wrong we want you want you to be comfortable knowing that you can actually say something to someone. So who do you say something to? A little

block of text here there here is a list of our first responders and their phone number so first name is me I am the large man with the red thing on his head so even without a phone number I shouldn't be that hard to find but phones are also useful. Heather Luna who is one of our DEFNA board members.

DEFNA as you see here in the last bullet point Jeff Triplett. Jeff Triplett of DEFNA. DEFNA is a Django Events Foundation North America that's the nonprofit organization that oversees DjangoCon. So myself Heather and Jeff are all board members of DEFNA and so those are contact numbers for us you can reach us at those numbers by voice or by text. So again just wanted

to be clear that if you feel something has gone wrong who should you speak to about it. Alright so now on to the more fun things about the conference. So the idea of staying connected while you're here at the conference and some of these things are things that Ed mentioned if you want to

volunteer at the conference on the DjangoCon website if you go to the website and click on the news link there's a series of blog posts there's one about volunteering opportunities I think it's the title is help run DjangoCon and so there's a list of different volunteer opportunities there there's also a link to a Google spreadsheet that you can use to sign up for the different volunteering opportunities so we have volunteer

opportunities for people to be session runners to help introduce speakers and run the different rooms where the talks are going on we also have volunteer opportunities at registration that will sort of fade as the week goes on because people will more people will be here and registered there are also volunteer opportunities to volunteer at the sprints I am also the sprints chair and so again you'll see more of me than you would like

to so take a look at that if you're interested in volunteering wanting to learn how a conference runs or how a conference gets organized if you are someone who attends a meetup in your hometown to tech meet up in your hometown or your whatever your locality is this might be an interesting way for you to see how another organization another group runs their

events and you might get some useful ideas there or it might inspire you to go home and stretch your own meetup I've met people at DjangoCon and other conferences who say oh well I don't I live in a small town I live in Houston Texas the fourth largest city in the country I'm originally from Washington DC the nation's capital I've always been around lots of people but everyone isn't in that situation I know lots of people come from

smaller places I've met people who said we don't have this meetup or that meetup in my town well maybe you help organize a little bit at DjangoCon or another conference get some ideas and then you can get something started in your neck of the woods as they say so one was it's also a good way to stay connected with other people if you don't know other people here well

if you volunteer while you're here there are gonna be other people who are volunteering and you'll make some new friends that way with a shared experience the Twitter hashtag I understand not everyone uses Twitter but I've heard on many occasions that Twitter is useful especially for conferences it's a good way to sort of keep track of things and to meet people and it's also a good sort of low cost a low effort way to keep up

with people that you meet so the official Twitter hashtag for DjangoCon is DjangoCon you can capitalize it you can not capitalize it there's also a slack channel which I believe a link was sent out to and so if you're someone who likes slack and wants to use slack you can stay in touch with your various conference attendees in the slack channel so these are all good

ways to stay connected especially if you're someone who maybe isn't super comfortable in large physical crowds you can stay connected in this way digitally can be helpful or if you volunteer it gives you a specific task to focus on and you don't have to worry so much about the oh well what do I say to this person you can just focus on the task at hand and work together and make new friends teamwork makes the dream work that's true that is

an actual science so what about your DjangoCon US experience what are you hoping to get out of this and again I had people sort of call out you know what are you hoping to get out of DjangoCon so I think it's important to consider what your goals are for DjangoCon while you're here. A lot of you are here at your first tech conference or your first DjangoCon why

are you here what do you want to get out of it so it's a good thing to think about some of the things people called out earlier they're usually a few basic things people are focused on they're wanting to learn there we go there we go they're wanting to learn you're either doing job searching or

you're hiring so maybe you're looking for a job or maybe your company needs to hire someone and you thought okay well this would be a good place to meet people so is that one of your main goals or are you just trying to sort of meet other people in the industry again I talked about people who come from smaller areas maybe you don't have a big meetup scene or a big tech scene in your city or in your area and so you'd like to meet other people so

just sort of let that spin through your head as you're here and think okay what am I really trying to do here DjangoCon what am I really hoping to get out of it and just going through that thought process will help you guide some of your later decisions and then when you're looking at the different talks on the schedule and trying to decide what talks you're going to go to and what you're going to do with your time let those goals

be your guide because if you're you know mostly here for the learning then focus on the talks that are gonna let you learn the things that you want to learn cuz even a goal like learning while you're trying to learn more technical things are you trying to learn more soft skills like did you recently become a manager or a tech lead and now you're trying to forget well how do I how do I even people I don't know how to people I would like

to learn how to people better so they're gonna be some talks that will help you with that versus wanting to learn more about say the channels in DjangoCon oh somebody's gonna tear the roof off it no no don't tear the roof off so again when you're choosing your your talks and your your

scheduling just try to think about what your overall goals are for the conference and then just make decisions that support that how to ask conference questions and conference etiquette this comes up at a lot of conferences the idea is when you're when someone's speaking there's often an opportunity please please have a question don't have a comment it's not

comment and answers it's question and answer so please please have a question also comments comments are wonderful but said that's what we call the hallway track and so the hallway track for those of you who are new to tech conferences is the sort of unofficial name for all the things

that happen that aren't in the actual session so just people out in the hallway talking to each other that's the hallway track it's it's a much fancier name for what it actually is it's loitering basically is what it is people are loitering but the hallway track the loitering crime the hallway track fancy tech conference thing so it's it's better that's better that's

why we use that so again for your DjangoCon you ask what are some things you do at lunch people people like food right do you like food people people like to eat so someone people happy with food you can make friends at one of the the goal is maybe try to sit with people that you don't know and so

that way you can make new friends now if you're here by yourself that's pretty easy to do but there sometimes is a tendency to sort of just sit with people that you've already met if you could try to sit with a different set of people each time you have a meal it's a good way to meet new people make new friends talk to folks that sort of thing I realize that can be a little uncomfortable sometimes you're like okay Kojo you're up there you got a

big red hat on and you want to just sit with strange people that's fine for you but not for me well it'll be all right just give it a give it a try once see how it goes if you don't burst into flame then maybe try it again and again if you're really anxious about being with strangers you can probably find me again I'm easy to find but I'm one of the organizers

most of my friends who are organizers so we'll probably have a job for you to do so just keep that in mind but the invitation is open lightning talks the lightning talks as I'd mentioned are a good way to get started one of the reasons we do this sort of thing is to help people come into the community and become contributors to the community and so lightning talks are a good way to

do that a short talk registration information for the lightning talks will be available soon it hasn't been if you're wondering well I haven't seen it what's because it hasn't been released yet that's fine that'll be coming soon but consider giving a lightning talk it's a five-minute maximum I am also the lightning talk share so again I'm everywhere guidebook if you have you

have a mobile phone which I think most of you do there's a guidebook app that you can get and the guidebook app will have a lot of information the nice thing about the guidebook app is you can go through see the schedule for the conference and then you can select different sessions that you want to go to and create your own personalized schedule so that way you'll have your own personalized schedule of the stuff that you want to go to you can see

easily if you've got schedule conflicts that sort of thing so guidebook is helpful and again the Slack channel which I mentioned before and then other events so there's some other things going on besides just the specific conference itself Monday night we're having the welcome reception Monday night that's tonight actually so we're having the welcome reception I type

these in the past and now it's now it's the present time travel it's hard so there's a welcoming reception going on tonight tomorrow night Tuesday night is board game night and so I think there's information about that on the website as well I personally I have a laptop that I use for playing

video games I might bring that to the gaming night because you know a game is a game it's a it's it's a board game it's on a on a motherboard but still it's a still a board game I think that's that's a thing and then Wednesday night there is an event happening off campus the one of the

local newspapers is hosting an event here and there's information about that on the Django with Django com website as well so final thoughts and I have this in big giant letters because it's I think it's important to bears notice with the organizers honestly want you to have the best most fulfilling most informative time you can at DjangoCon that's literally why

we do this like most of us aren't from Spokane or even from Washington State or really most of us are from the Pacific Northwest I think there's like two of us may be from the Pacific Northwest and so this is far from where I live and from where my bed is and and this is true for most of the

organizers and why do I say this I say this because just to sort of emphasize the point we really truly honestly want you to have the best experience you can here and that's why we've organized a conference and that's why we've done all this and so if you have questions if you have concerns if you're just confused or don't know where to go or feel sad or

you know whatever talk to one of the organizers talk to someone we've got the little red badges that say ask me or the bright green ones that say organizer we want you to have the best time possible so please keep that in mind any questions or any questions anyone has you can ask me now in

person or again I'm big and obvious and easy to find you can also find me on Twitter I'm transition on Twitter or you can find another organizer so with that if anyone has any questions that means I've done a wonderful job and I'm the best maybe that might be a little far but so with that said we're gonna

wrap up this session and the keynote is happening here in the next few minutes next 15 20 minutes or so so let's you all relax and look at your laptops and your mobile devices because that's what we do now in 2017 so thank you very much for your time and most importantly thank you for attending DjangoCon it literally doesn't happen without you all it other without you

all this just like me and the other organizers just hanging around on the internet talking to each other and that's that's a whole different thing so thank you for your time and enjoy the conference