Why Django is created and maintained by myself, James Tauber, and others. Its purpose is to help individuals sell Django as a working platform. It is a work in progress, and will be updated periodically.

1. A web application framework

2. Nebula is powered by Django

3. Nebula is powered by Django

4. Discovery is powered by Django

5. National Geographic is powered by Django

6. PBS is powered by Django

7. MSNBC's Everyblock is powered by Django

8. Spacebook is powered by Django

9. Library of Congress is powered by Django

10. Culture of Quality
Django was born in a world of tight deadlines
and high expectations.

11. Culture of Quality
Another place where failure is not an option

12. Culture of Quality
Django encourages doing the right thing.
In Django doing the wrong thing is hard.

13. Culture of Quality
Code without tests is broken

14. Testing is expected
Django test results from WebFed
Django culture expects tests and many
tools are available to produce reports
like this one, demonstrating that we
need to expand our test data to exercise
new features which were just added a
few minutes ago.
These tests: create a clean database,
load test data, and test the entire site, in
about 30 seconds.

15. Django saves money

16. Django saves money
We aren't reinventing the wheel

17. Django saves money
Django is powered by Python

18. Django is secure

19. Django is secure
Cross Site Scripting
SQL Injection
Buffer Overflows
Directory Traversal

20. Django is Persistent
PostgreSQL (Preferred because of GeoDjango)
MySQL
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
Sqlite3
Future: ZODB, MongoDB, Cassandra, et al

21. GeoDjango
The United States Django Community
"The best GIS API in the world is GeoDjango "
-Ted Leung, Sun Microsystems

22. Django is Open Source

23. Django is Open Source

24. Django is Open Source

25. Django is Open Source

26. Job Trends

27. Job Trends

28. Job Trends

29. Automatic Admin Interface
Demo

30. Questions