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Upgrade PostgreSQL from 14 to 15 on Ubuntu 23.04

April 26, 2023 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

Howto guide for upgrading PostgreSQL from version 14 to 15 on Ubuntu, after its upgrade from version 22.10 to 23.04 (Lunar Lobster).

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The first retirement project

April 23, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

The week that was 2023 WK16. After a couple of weeks of Post-Fellowing Holiday to myself — and handling only the new notifications on anything that isn’t django/django, and even having capacity to engage on the Forum — time to get back to it. Introducing Neapolitan The first retirement project then is Neapolitan, my take on quick CRUD views for Django. The README example is the core of it… I have a Django model: from django.db import models class Bookmark(models.Model): url = models.URL…

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Django's upcoming steering council elections

April 23, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

The Django 5.x Steering Council Candidate Registration is now open. The official announcement is here In contrast to previous runs, more or less, if you’re an active member of the Django community then you’re qualified to stand. There have been two such elections since the governance was changed in DEP 10. In both of those we had candidate pools of entirely white men. Nothing wrong with those people 🥰 — but that’s not Django Much social capital was spent adjusting the rules in DEP 12 to al…

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Django 5.x Steering Council Candidate Registration

April 23, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

With the completion of the Django 4.x major release cycle and in accordance with DEP-0010 and DEP-0012, it is now time to collect candidates for the Django Steering Council. Steering council candidates must demonstrate: A history of substantive contributions to Django or the Django ecosystem. This history must begin at least 18 months prior to the individual's candidacy for the Steering Council, and include substantive contributions in at least two of these bullet points: Code contributions on…

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PyCon US 2023

April 22, 2023 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

PyCon US is the largest and longest-running annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.

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Django 5.x Technical Board Candidate Registration

April 22, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Please note: this post has been retracted, with https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/apr/22/steering-council-candidate-registration/ replacing it. The candidacy requirements were updated in DEP-0012, along with the name of the group from "Technical Board" to "Steering Council". --- With the completion of the Django 4.x major release cycle and in accordance with DEP-0010, it is now time to collect candidates for the Django Technical Board. Technical board candidates must…

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Send your people to DjangoCon

April 22, 2023 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

This is a 100% biased take. I’m on the DjangoCon US 2023 organizing team and am a member of DEFNA’s board. I also had a fantastic time at DjangoCon US 2022, so much so that I became an organizer and a member of DEFNA’s board. Simply put, I’m all in on Django. That definitely skews my perspective, but you’re here for an opinion. Send your people to DjangoCon! point over In all seriousness, I had this discussion with an executive on why we should send our other engineer to DjangoCon US this fa…

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Django News - Django 5.x Technical Board Election Registration - Apr 21st 2023

April 21, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Announcement of 5.x Technical Board Election Registration A new Technical Board election is coming up. All individual DSF members can vote or you can register to vote, too. djangoproject.com Google Season of Docs: Creating Wagtail Developer Onboarding Tutorials After a positive experience with Outreachy, the Wagtail core team participates in Google Season of Docs to enhance onboarding tutorials for developers and improve engagement wi…

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Python Exercism Exercises / Template Updates - Building SaaS with Python and Django #158

April 20, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I went through a few quick exercises on Exercism in the Python track. Then I returned to the features I’m developing that displays course resources connected to tasks in my homeschool app.

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Python Exercism Exercises / Template Updates - Building SaaS #158

April 20, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I went through a few quick exercises on Exercism in the Python track. Then I returned to the features I’m developing that displays course resources connected to tasks in my homeschool app.

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