News

Django-related Deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022

Eight different Django content creators or having deals right now. Check it out!

Join DEFNA! Board Member Recruitment

DEFNA (Django Events Foundation North America), not to be confused with the DSF (Django Software Foundation), is looking for another board member. Applications are due December 3rd.

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Articles

PyDev of the Week: Sarah Abderemane

Sarah is very active in Django and has recently been working to add a dark mode in the Django documentation.

Dynamically update periodic tasks in Celery and Django

An overview with code of how to dynamically add periodic tasks in Celery to a Django app.

Save models with update_fields for better performance in Django

TIL that you can specify update_fields while saving a Django model to generate a leaner underlying SQL query. This yields better performance while updating multiple objects in a tight loop.

Events

PyCon US on Twitter: Join the #PyConUS 2023 team by volunteering for our Online Experience Committee!

Have some extra time to give? Join the #PyConUS 2023 team by volunteering for our Online Experience Committee! We are looking for helpful humans to help us run the #PyConUS 2023 virtual platform, Hubilo.

Videos

DjangoCon US 2022 Playlist

DjangoCon US 2022 videos are up.

Python Community News: Looking at the Django Software Foundation Candidates

The Django Software Foundation board elections are underway and with votes due by November 28th. Jay and Jon dive into DSF and PSF elections.

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SaaS Pegasus is a Django boilerplate with built-in teams, billing, a modern front end, instant deployment and more. This week only you can get a lifetime license for Pegasus on unlimited sites for 50% off. See why more than 500 django developers have chosen Pegasus, and launch your next app faster than you dreamed possible.

Podcasts

Django Chat#127: Butter CMS with Jake Lumetta

ButterCMS is a headless or API-first CMS built with Django. We discuss the initial inspiration, caching, performance, hosting, and running a SaaS business at scale.

Sing for Science: Season 3 Episode 8: Rivers Cuomo and Guido van Rossum

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo goes deep on coding talk with Python computer language creator and programming, Guido Van Rossum.

Projects

AlexHill/django-relativity

More expressive relationships for the Django ORM.

andrewgodwin/takahe

An ActivityPub/Fediverse server.