PLEASE NOTE THE NEW VENUE (for this month's meeting only)

Refresh Austin's August meeting will include two presentations:

Writing for the Web
Presented by Sheila Scarborough

• How to let your own voice come through your writing.


• How to use an editorial calendar to organize your blogging and avoid writer's block.


• How to present material on the Web so that it's easy to read and absorb.


• How to interact with commentators on your blog, and how to get more of them.


• Discussion topic - when is a blogger a journalist, and when is he/she not? Are there fundamental tenets of print journalism that we should bring online?

Introduction to Django
Presented by Jon Loyens

Django is one of the more recent crop of lightweight web frameworks designed to help people create dynamic web applications while avoiding the redundancy and tedium often associated with the task. The Python-based Django has recently gained a lot of momentum within the web community for it’s ease of use and clean, maintainable code and is currently the only framework supported by the Google AppEngine. Being born out of a newspaper publishing environment, Django is particularly well suited to creating content driven applications (though, as the co-creators are quick to point out, Django itself is not a CMS, though a very good platform to build a CMS on). Django is billed by it’s co-creators Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Adrian Holovaty as “the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines”.

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