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27th April 2016

wagtail meetup

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Meet Wagtail

http://wagtail.io/

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What’s Wagtail?

  • Open source CMS built on Django by Torchbox
  • Global community
  • Solves common problems out of the box
  • Fast to innovate on (it’s just Django)
  • Mature project: 2+ years, 130+ contributors

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Who’s using it around the world?

  • Royal College of Arts
  • Open NASA
  • 18f
  • A major US political campaign (ssshhhhhh!)
  • Burton, Wharton, British NHS, RevSys, NBC….

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Closer to home

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Who develops it?

  • Torchbox – UK
  • Takeflight – Australia
  • Lukkien – Netherlands
  • Lift Interactive – Canada
  • Praekelt Foundation – South Africa
  • Springload – New Zealand

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See a demo

http://wagtail-admin-api.demo.torchboxapps.com/

u: admin / p: changeme

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Some less obvious features

  • Public API
  • Scalability
  • ElasticSearch
  • Form builder
  • Image library (Willow, wraps Pillow, Wand, OpenCV)
  • BYO template engine (Jinja2 or Django templates)

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Wagtail Public API

  • Built on Django REST Framework
  • Pages + querysets
  • Images
  • Documents
  • See it in action: http://www.festival.co.nz/public-api/v1/pages/

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Sample React Native client

https://github.com/JoshBarr/react-native-example

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Scalability – handle many nodes

See http://flagpost.nz/

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  • Why we picked Wagtail

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  • Retiring a bespoke in-house PHP framework
  • Wanted python/django solution.
  • Saw Wagtail on HackerNews
  • It had up-to-date documentation!
  • Slick video on the marketing site ;)
  • Tried it out on a small project.

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Our involvement now

  • We’re core contributors
  • Weekly hangouts with the Torchbox team
  • Madewithwagtail.org
  • Facebook-sponsored Wagtail sprint in Cape Town

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Useful open source modules

  • Wagtail maps
  • Wagtail NZ Govt security module
  • Wagtail common blocks

See our public repos : https://github.com/springload/

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Live code time!

https://github.com/springload/wagtailmeetup

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Community news

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Upcoming features

  • 1.5
    • Admin API
    • Model Admin contrib module
    • React-based frontend (new explorer and DraftJS editor)
  • 1.6
    • Content personalisation (Amazon Machine Learning)
    • Translation workflow (led by Takeflight in Aus)

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ReactJS Explorer UI

https://youtu.be/g8OXYfVeGXc

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JSONTextField + DraftJS

https://youtu.be/tfbxEEjcvX0

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Amazon Machine Learning

Developed by Lukkien

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Page translations

Developed by Takeflight/Torchbox

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Upcoming events

  • Sprint in Netherlands, 16-17 June
  • Wagtail will be at DjangoCon USA, 17-22 July
  • We’ll be at PyCon NZ, 9-13 Sept
  • Next Wagtail Wellington meetup!

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How to get involved

Community: wagtailcms.slack.com

Code: github.com/torchbox/wagtail

Users: groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wagtail

Devs: groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wagtail-developers

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Questions?