News

2021 DSF Board Election Results

Thank you to our outgoing DSF Board Members: Frank Wiles (President), James Bennett (Secretary), and Sayantika Banik. We appreciate your years of service to the community.

The 2021 returning Board of Directors are Anna Makarudze (Vice President/President-elect), William Vincent (Treasurer), Kátia Nakamura, and Aaron Bassett. New board members are Žan Anderle, Mfon Eti-mfon, and Chaim Kirby.

Wagtail 3rd Party Packages

A new dedicated home for Wagtail 3rd party packages. Learn more in the official blog post documenting the move.

Python 3.9.1 is now available, together with 3.10.0a3 and 3.8.7rc1

Python 3.9.1 is the first version of Python to support macOS 11 Big Sur natively on Apple Silicon.

Python Software Foundation News: Announcing the PSF Diversity and Inclusion Work Group

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Articles

Exhaustiveness Checking with Mypy by Haki Benita

Haki Benita walks us through exhaustiveness checking with mypy.

How To Set Up Tailwind CSS In Django On Heroku

A step-by-step guide to configuring Tailwind on a Heroku-hosted Django app.

Installing Tailwind CSS v2 with Django-Tailwind

[django-tailwind] is a 3rd party package supporting the very popular Tailwind CSS.

Introducing django-linear-migrations by Adam Johnson

If you have ever experienced CommandError: Conflicting migrations detected, then Adam's new project should help you detect and avoid them.

Improving Django View Performance with Async Support

This is a nice real-world example of using Django 3.1's asynchronous views to track Montana's Yellowstone River.

Events

PyCascades Grant application opens!

If you would like to attend the conference but do not have the funds to purchase a ticket, the application deadline is December 19, 2020 (AoE).

Tutorials

Maps with Django (part 1): GeoDjango, SpatiaLite and Leaflet

A guide to creating a web map using Django and Leaflet.

Podcasts

Django Chat #80: Jazzband with Matthias Kestenholz

Matthias is a longtime Django contributor and member of JazzBand, which manages many 3rd party packages including django-debug-toolbar. He’s also the creator of feincms and founder of the company Feinheit.

Projects

kalekseev/django-extra-checks

Collection of useful checks for Django Checks Framework.

django-postgres-metrics/django-postgres-metrics

From Markus Holtermann, a Django application that exposes a bunch of PostgreSQL database metrics.

zanderle/django-sft

Django Single File Templates are inspired by Vue's Single file components, which combines HTML, CSS, and JS into one template.