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…
Read MoreApril 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.
Read MoreApril 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Please note: this post has been retracted, with https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/apr/22/steering-council-candidate-registration/ replacing it.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…
Read MoreApril 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…
Read MoreApril 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…
Read MoreApril 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.
Read MoreApril 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.
Read MoreApril 17, 2023 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
An Event for Postgres is a free and virtual developer event organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft Azure.
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PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2023, Berlin Germany. Where Pythonistas in Germany can meet to learn about new and upcoming Python libraries, tools, software and data science.
Read MoreApril 16, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The release of Django 4.2 represents the final feature release of a major release series of Django. Per DEP-0010 this release triggers the election for the Technical board for the Django 5.x release cycle. All individual DSF members are automatically registered electors. If you are not a DSF member and would like to apply to vote you need to register here. The process of electing a new Technical Board will be: Registration of Electors is now open, and will close Friday April 21, 2023 AoE. Regi…
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