DjangoCon Europe 2025 Call for Proposals
Djangonaut week 0, SQLAlchemy vs Django ORM, an improved imagefield project, and more.
News
Mariusz Felisiak: "I've decided to retire from being a Django Fellow at the end of March 2024…"
Django Fellow Mariusz Felisiak announced he is stepping down after five years. Thank you for all the hard work, Mariusz!!!
DjangoCon Europe 2024 - Call for Proposals
The CFP is open until March 1st to submit your talk proposals.
PSF: EU’s Cyber Resilience Act Passes with Wins for Open Source
An important update on the EU's Cyber Resilience Act.
PSF: Announcing the Deputy Developer in Residence and the Supporting Developer in Residence
The Python Software Foundation has welcomed Petr Viktorin as the new Deputy Developer in Residence and Serhiy Storchaka as the Supporting Developer in Residence to form a full residency team focused on improving CPython, with funding from Bloomberg and an anonymous donor.
Django Software Foundation
DjangoCon Europe 2025 Call for Proposals
DjangoCon Europe 2024 will be held June 5th-9th in Vigo, Spain, but they're already looking ahead to the 2025 conference. Learn more about what it takes to host this amazing conference!
Updates to Django
Last week we had 15 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to Denys Halenok, Alexander Lazarević, Syed Waheed, and Eva Nanyonga for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Exciting recent developments:
- A Django roadmap workshop and a Django contributor retrospective is being organised by Thibaud Colas. You can react to express your interest in these sessions. ❤️
- Djangonaut Space has started a new session! 18 Djangonauts are exploring Django and other third party packages to launch their open source journey. 🚀
Last week's main update to the Django codebase was that more fields have been exposed for GeoIP2.country() and GeoIP2.city(). See the Django 5.1 release notes for more details.
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Articles
Djangonaut Week0: Get! Set! Go!
The first entry from a new Djangonaut in the current cohort.
Django, SQLite, and the Database is Locked Error
Explains database is locked errors in Django when using SQLite, and how to solve them.
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SQLALchemy vs Django ORM
A very detailed look at switching from the Django ORM to SQLAlchemy and how to avoid some unexpected behaviors.
The simplest Dockerfile for PAAS
One approach to working with Tailwind, Javascript/Typescript, and Django.
Videos
DjangoCon US 2023: All about djangoproject.com
An update on the development and recent updates to the djangoproject.com website.
DjangoCon US 2023: Powering Energy Storage Beyond Excel
A talk about transitioning from Excel to Django to enable a national installer of battery energy storage solutions to optimize energy storage configurations, enhance accuracy, ensure reliability, and improve quality assurance.
DjangoCon US 2023: AfroPython: Using Django to change black people life in Brazil
An exploration of the evolution of AfroPython and the impact of Python and Django on the journey.
Django Job Board
Business Systems Analyst at Energy Solutions
Senior Django Developer Role at Medical Education Company | Remote & Asynchronous at Geeky Medics
Python Django E-Commerce Full Stack at Nimonik
Senior Python/Django Engineer at Apexive
Projects
Tobi-De/falco
Enhance your Django developer experience: CLI and Guides for the Modern Django Developer.
matthiask/django-imagefield
An updated image field option vs Django's built-in models.ImageField.
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