Photograph by Antony Sojka.
Bio
Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel M.Sc. is an engineer, designer and author active on the intersection of technology and society.
Alper graduated with a Master of Sciences in Media and Knowledge Engineering from Delft University of Technology with a minor in Management of Technology. His graduation subject was the research and development of communities of practice for enterprise software solutions.
From 2007-2010 he was co-founder and public face of crowd-funding startup TipiT. After that he founded the first Dutch data visualization agency Monster Swell and became an activist in the open data movement. During this period he was program director of Hack de Overheid’s successful “Apps for Amsterdam†event series. This culminated in the creation of the Open State Foundation, an open data institution of which Alper was a board member.
From 2010 until 2015 Alper was the lead technologist of Dutch design studio Hubbub where he became a partner. Alper moved to Berlin in 2012 to found the German Hubbub office and to pursue new opportunities in Europe’s booming technology and media hub. Based on extensive experience and research in 2016 he wrote and published the book “Designing Conversational Interfaces†about the conception and creation of chatbots.
Alper is currently based in Berlin and employed as an engineering manager.
Hey Alper, I just saw your comment on StackOverflow with the Django DataBase issue. Just to tell you, after installing django from the repo.
Delete the old db.sqlite3 file and run the migrations again. If possible. The new db.sqlite3 file will fix it.