Django London Meetup July

July edition will be at Kraken Tech (Octopus Energy Group) London office.
We are going to give a summer break after this one. So we hope to see you all there.

Talks:
The coding conventions that make our lives easier
by Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez

Engineers review code as often as they write it and use a lot of tools to improve this process, such as linters and auto-formatters. One tool that is also very useful is the coding conventions. It is a collection of references that can be used during code-reviews, whilst also serving as a valuable day to day reference and guide for all team.

This talk will explore several different conventions from open source conventions repo, offering an in-depth exploration of how they improve the quality of the codebase and serve as a tool for knowledge transfer among engineering teams.

The structure of the talk will follow:

• What are coding conventions and why do we use them?
• How to establish your own coding conventions?
• Examples of some of the most useful coding conventions and how they enhance code quality.
• How to uphold your coding conventions with the help of linters?

Attendees will leave with a comprehensive understanding of the concept coding conventions and how to implement them within their own team.

Speaker Bio: Çağıl is a software engineer based in London. She has been working with Python and Django since 2008. Currently she is working as a Lead Backend Engineer at Kraken Tech. She is vice president in Django Software Foundation, co-organiser of London Django Meetup, Pycon Turkey, DjangoGirls Turkey, and a PSF managing member.

Committing 1 trillion lines of code to Github, and other fun things to do over the weekend
by Thomas Forbes

This talk covers a side project I’ve been working on to commit every line of code published to PyPI into GitHub. I’ll go over the specifics of how this was done, what this enables and most importantly why I did this. I'll also talk a bit about what makes a good side project and how you can find interesting side projects that motivate you.

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Agenda:

• 6:15pm Doors open, socialising
• 6:30pm Food and drinks offered by our sponsor
• 7:00pm Doors close **
• 7:15pm Introduction, News, Talks
• 8:15pm Socialising
• 9:30pm Fin

** Please make sure to arrive between 6:15 PM and 7:00 PM. If you arrive earlier than 6:15 PM or later than 7:00 PM, you can take a seat in the seating area located in the downstairs reception. Please note that we cannot accommodate arrivals after 7:30 PM.

Our meetups are governed by a Code of Conduct. Please take a few minutes to read it.

This meetup is sponsored by:

• Kraken Tech (Octopus Energy Group): "Kraken is a revolutionary energy tech platform built with Django. Serving 25 million households worldwide."

• JetBrains: "We make professional software development a more productive and enjoyable experience."

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