DjangoCon Europe and beyond
| published by | Sarah Abderemane, Thibaud Colas, Tom Carrick |
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| in blog | The Django weblog |
| original entry | DjangoCon Europe and beyond |
Credit: DjangoCon Europe 2025 organizers
We had a blast at DjangoCon Europe 2025, and hope you did too! Events like this are essential for our community, delighting both first-timers and seasoned Djangonauts with insights, good vibes, and all-around inspiration. This year’s conference brought together brilliant minds from all corners of the globe. And featured early celebrations of Django’s 20th birthday! ⭐️🎂🎉
After launching in 2005, Django turns 20 in 2025, and the conference was a great occasion for our community to celebrate this. And work on the sustainability of the project together.
We need more code reviews
Our Django Fellow Sarah Boyce kicked off the conference with a call for more contributions – of the reviewing kind. In her words,
Django needs your help. Every day, contributors submit pull requests and update existing PRs, but there aren't enough reviewers to keep up. Learn why Django needs more reviewers and how you can help get changes merged into core.
We need more fundraising
Our Vice President Sarah Abderemane got on stage to encourage more financial support of Django from attendees, showcasing how simple it is to donate to the project (get your boss to do it!). We have ambitious plans for 2025, which will require us to grow the Foundation’s budget accordingly.
Annual meeting of DSF Members
Our Board members Tom Carrick, Thibaud Colas, Sarah Abderemane, and Paolo Melchiorre were at the conference to organize a meeting of Members of the Django Software Foundation. This was a good occasion to discuss long-standing topics, and issues of the moment, such as:
- Diversity, equity and inclusion. Did you know we recently got awarded the CHAOSS DEI bronze badge? We need to keep the momentum in this area.
- Management of the Membership at the Foundation. With different visions on how much the membership is a recognition or a commitment (or both). There was interest in particular in sharing more calls to action with members.
- Content of the website. A long-standing area for improvement (which we’re working on!)
All in all this was a good opportunity for further transparency, and to find people who might be interested in contributing to those areas of our work in the future.
Birthday celebrations
There was a cake (well, three!). Candles to blow out. And all-around great vibes and smiles, with people taking pictures and enjoying specially-made Django stickers!
Up next
We have a lot more events coming up this year where the Foundation will be present, and bringing celebrations of Django’s 20th birthday!
PyCon US 2025
It’s on, now! And we’re present, with a booth. Come say hi! There will be Django stickers available:
PyCon Italia 2025
Some of the PyCon Italia team was there at DjangoCon Europe to hype up their event – and we’ll definitely be there in Bologna! They promised better coffee 👀, and this will have to be independently verified. Check out their Djangonauts at PyCon Italia event.
EuroPython 2025
We got to meet up with some of the EuroPython crew at DjangoCon Europe too, and we’ll definitely be there at the conference too, as one of their EuroPython community partners 💚. There may well be birthday cake there too, get your tickets!
Django events
And if you haven’t already, be sure to check out our next flagship Django events!
Thank you to everyone who joined us at DjangoCon Europe, and thank you to the team behind the conference in particular ❤️. DjangoCon Europe continues to show the strength and warmth of our community, proving that the best part of Django is truly the people. See you at the next one!
PS: if you’re in Europe and like organizing big events, do reach out to talk about organizing a DjangoCon Europe in your locale in the coming years.