No More Spreadsheets! Building PyLadiesCon Infrastructure with Python and Django
summary
A volunteer-run conference replaces tangled shared sheets with a purpose-built web portal: portal.pyladies.com built in Python and Django, dockerized with Postgres and pytest, ~6,000 lines of code and CI, Mailgun for email and MailDev for local testing. Volunteer signups drop from 152 messy rows to structured records (70 accepted), sponsorships become auditable and public dashboards track progress, and the 2025 run raises $55,000 while supporting 24 hours and six languages.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:58PyLadiesCon differences
- 8:37Volunteer data complexity
- 13:33Spreadsheets fail
- 17:29Cost of admin work
- 20:19Django conference portal
- 25:18Improvements after switch
- 30:53Public dashboards
- 33:43Future plans
- 37:16Q&A
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