Over the last few months we have seen a big rise in crowdfudning here in Sweden thanks to FundedByMe’s efforts and Kickstarters amazing success overseas.

.SE has created a new fund that helps bring tech/internet related projects to life.

Long story short if you fall into the criteria (abide by the rules, fit into technology or internet categories) then your project gets presented to .SE internetfonden.
If they like what they see they’ll approve you for funding.

If your project reaches more than 50% Internetfonden will chip in with the balance based on what amount you raise.

Scenario

IF: You raise more than 50% but less than a 100% – Internetfonden chips in the rest
ELSE: If you raise more than a 100% you don’t need the help

click here for full information

http://www.streetarticles.com/fundraising/swedish-crowdfunding-site-fundedbyme-reaches-1-million-sek

Did a quick search against Instagram and Foursquare.
Why the comparison between these two?

Instagrams locations are based on Foursquares checkin locations.

Doing a bit of digging around, I have found some substantial information showcasing that Nginx is a much better choice for Django than Apache.

In order to make Nginx work, we need some sort of wsgi combined with Nginx, the easiest way to get this done is to install FLUP

/opt/python2.6/bin/pip install flup

Now let’s go ahead and create another user that will run a separate process, and also allow us to debug easier if something goes wrong.

Add Nginx user

useradd nginx
passwd -d nginx

Install Nginx

yum install nginx
cd /etc/nginx/
mv nginx.conf nginx-backup.conf
touch nginx.conf
vi nginx.conf

NGINX config file example (make sure to replace /www/django_test1/mysite with your project root)

user  nginx nginx;
worker_processes  2;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    use epoll;
}

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost;
        location /media/  {
            root /www/django_test1/mysite; # Replace with your own project root
    }
    location /mediaadmin/  {
        alias /opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin; # Alias to where our admin media root lives
    }
    location / {
        # host and port to fastcgi server
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
        fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
        fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
        fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
        fastcgi_pass_header Authorization;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
    }
    access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log;
    }
}

If you are running a prior version of apache make sure to stop it.
/etc/init.d/httpd stop

Start my FastCGI

cd /www/django_test1/mysite/
python manage.py runfcgi host=127.0.0.1 port=8080 --settings=settings
/etc/init.d/nginx start

Now that we have moved away from Apache we need to make sure that apache doesn’t switch back on when we restart the server for any needs.

chkconfig httpd off
chkconfig --add nginx
chkconfig --level 2345 nginx on
chkconfig --list nginx

defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Version 2.7

get v8c of jpeg
cd into jpeg directory.

sudo make clean
CC="gcc -arch i386" ./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
sudo make install

get imaging i am using 1.1.6

untar
cd into imaging
sudo rm -rf build
vi setup.py
JPEG_ROOT = libinclude(“/usr/local/lib”)
sudo python setup.py install

And it’s that simple

Run your python interpreter,

import PIL
import _imaging
import Image

if all is well, then your all set.

We started this project with some inside knowledge on how the site was built but it ended up being bigger than Ben Hur.

The old site consisted of real old technology and all their records were kept in excel spreadsheets… not very good

So first of all we have to map out the relationships between the different sections of the site, and then we had to build a very intricate php extractor that took all of the data and mapped it over to a wordpress compatible db.

Many hours later we extracted all their data, built and re-imported all their images.

Here is the final results SAK – Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening

My-hunt.com is a social experience/experiment for hunters that allows them to upload their hunting trophies, write hunting reports, learn more about the animals you hunt and also a friendship network.

Through the signup process you can choose whether to be seen as a hunter or whether you want to publish information about your hunting grounds.

We are very excited to introduce this into the market and look forward to expanding and introducing new segments every step of the way.

My-Hunt.com online, WE ARE HUNTING!

Because this is mainly based in Sweden we have to allow users to make use of NON-ASCII characters such as å ä ö and many other.

Easy way to get around this is to install UNIDECODE which handles all of this for you.

Each section/file you are going to make use of this remember to import unidecode

# Import of transliteration module
from unidecode import unidecode

To install
pip install Unidecode

Then clean your picture in your forms.py

def clean_picture(self):
data = self.cleaned_data['picture']
# For correct uploading non-ASCII image_filenames, we use transliteration module: unidecode()
# can be downloaded here: < git clone http://code.zemanta.com/tsolc/git/unidecode >
# Don't forget to import it: from unidecode import unidecode
trans_name = unidecode(data.name)
data.name = trans_name
return data

And in your views.p that handles the actual saving


if form.is_valid():
# For correct uploading non-ASCII image_filenames, we use transliteration module: unidecode()
# can be downloaded here: < git clone http://code.zemanta.com/tsolc/git/unidecode >
# Don't forget to import it: from unidecode import unidecode
cleaned_form = form.cleaned_data
trans_name = unidecode(cleaned_form['profile_picture'].name)
cleaned_form['profile_picture'].name = trans_name


wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
rpm –import linux_signing_key.pub

32BIT

wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-beta_current_i386.rpm

64BIT

wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-beta_current_x86_64.rpm

yum localinstall mod-pagespeed-*.rpm

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/pagespeed.conf

ModPagespeed on

Uncomment # ModPagespeedRewriteLevel CoreFilters

restart apache

Uncomment # ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace

Go to the google code page and find a list of items in their.

Play around with it a bit and find your best solution.

The full list of available filters, plus descriptions of how they work and how to use them, is available on the project’s Google Code page