News
Python Web Conf 2023 Talks + Tutorials available on YouTube
Watch 80 talks, tutorials, and socials from Python Web Conf 2023 on Six Feet Up's YouTube channel. Explore videos about Python, Django, Kubernetes, AI/ML, Big Data, CI/CD, Serverless, Security, Climate Tech, and more.
PyCharm & DSF Campaign 2023
Each year, our friends at JetBrains, the creators of PyCharm, run an incredible deal. You get a 30% discounted year of PyCharm, AND the DSF gets 100% of the proceeds. Plus, get one free month of access to JetBrains Academy, which has courses like Intro to Django, SQL, Git, and more!
Django Software Foundation
DSF Board monthly meeting, July 14, 2023
Meeting minutes for DSF Board monthly meeting, July 14, 2023.
Updates to Django
Updates to Django
From Django Review and Triage Team Member Sarah Boyce...
Last week we had 20 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 5 first time contributors! Congratulations to Tushar, Ryan Chausse, Cauê Thenório, Amir Karimi and Priyank Panchal for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Some highlights include:
- updating QuerySet.bulk_create()
to retrieve primary keys when updating conflicts (#34698)
- adding documentation on how to delete a Django application (#34309)
- removing django.contrib.sitemaps.ping_google()
and the ping_google
management command after reaching consensus on the Django forum (#34688)
New tickets are raised to Django every day, so let's look at July 21st through the history of the Django project. Excluding today, July 21st has seen 121 tickets raised and all but 2 of these tickets have already been closed! 2008 had 19 tickets raised on a single day! The remaining two open tickets are: - #18654 supporting model properties that are not fields in GIS LayerMapping, raised July 21st 2008 - #25154 having make migrations output the operation that failed, raised July 21st 2015
If you want to work on any ticket, you can sign into Trac using your GitHub account and assign yourself to a ticket.
Wagtail CMS
Wagtail CMS: My progress in June for Google Season of Docs 2023
With the support of my mentors I achieved the first two milestones for the 2023 Wagtail Google Season of Docs project.
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Articles
Bulk updating multiple repos with all-repos
A walkthrough of the author's setup to maintain many GitHub repos at once.
Events
DjangoCon US US - Announcing the 2023 Schedule!
The DjangoCon US talk and the tutorial lineup are up. Six online tutorials on Sunday, October 8, three days of talks on October 16-18, and two days of sprints on October 19-20.
Videos
DjangoCon Europe 2023: Turning test writing into a consistently brief and pleasant experience
This talk received a rare standing applause for demonstrating a tool to write automated tests, inspired by ChatGPT and other new LLMs.
DjangoCon Europe 2023: The programmer's imagination
A wonderful and inspiring talk from Daniele Procida about how we (as programmers) think about imagination.
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Podcasts
Paul Everitt - Zope, Pyramid, Plone, PyCharm, Coaching Lacrosse
Python People is a new weekly podcast hosted by Bria Okken. This episode features Paul Everitt from JetBrains and PyCharm who is a long-time friend of the Python and Django community.
Django Chat #143: Django Deployments - Eric Matthes (Ep108 Replay)
Eric is the author of the new django-simple-deploy package which provides Django deployment in three steps. We discuss the deployment learning cliff, the ideal hosting platform, and maintaining his bestselling book Python Crash Course.