Imaginary Landscape, LLC

Chicago, Boulder, Mountain View, Lawrence, Austin, Copenhagen, Prague, Augsburg, Dresden, Lima - programmers from around the world gathered in offices and online for a comprehensive programming sprint to improve the Django Web development framework.  Python programmer Christopher Webber from Imaginary Landscape contributed in-person at the Google Chicago office.

Django is an open source Web application framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.  Django's primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven Web sites. Django emphasizes reusability and "pluggability" of components, rapid development, and the principle of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself).

A programming sprint is a coordinated effort to accelerate development of a particular software project.   More than 200 programmers from around the world contributed their time and expertise in-person and remotely to push Django forward.

"Imaginary Landscape has been evaluating the use of Django for the production of Web applications," said Brian Moloney, managing partner of Imaginary Landscape.  "The sprint allowed us to get a better feel for it while also contributing back to the open source community."

Picture of sprint participants hosted in Chicago by Google (Christopher is the handsome chap in the black shirt at the back corner of the table).  Photo by Jacob Kaplan-Moss.