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Star Trek made a promise to me that I grew up believing: the future would have room for everyone, and that the team we need to face that uncertain future together will look different from each other. Octavia Butler added color and friction to that promise, sharing a future that was written with specificity and honesty; and Black woman led. Speculative fiction, scifi and Afrofuturism are what first let me imagine myself in rooms I hadn't been invited into yet — and it shaped the aesthetic and th…
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Cal-ITP Benefits is an open-source Django application funded by the state of California as part of the California Integrated Travel Project. It provides a way for riders to confirm their eligibility for public transit benefits and then register their credit or debit card so they automatically receive reduced fares when they tap to pay. This product aims to make open-loop payments accessible to all transit riders, while providing a convenient digital enrollment path for reduced fares that limits…
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Searching for human names in large datasets is harder than it looks. A user searches for "Smith, John," but the database contains "Smyth, Jon" or "Smithe, Johnny." Standard LIKE queries are too strict, full-text search doesn't handle name nuances well, and unindexed fuzzy matching won't scale. This talk covers how we solved these problems for RecordsDB, a Django app that searches over 50 million North Carolina court records for legal aid organizations and public defenders. Talk Structure The …
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A Code of Conduct is only as strong as the community's trust in it. When it's time to revise one, the how matters as much as the what. Django's Working Group undertook a significant revision in 2026 — adopting CC3's expanded encouraged and restricted behaviors, adding explicit guidance on consent and impact versus intent, formalizing a graduated enforcement ladder, and even addressing the responsible use of AI-generated content. This was not just a find-and-replace; it required community input,…
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Every marketing campaign has the same problem: one message, a dozen audiences, and suddenly your CMS is drowning in nearly identical pages. For Truth Initiative, the nation’s largest nonprofit dedicated to ending nicotine addiction, editors were maintaining a growing library of duplicate landing pages with no clean way to test what was actually working. We solved it with a dynamic Wagtail landing page, built on a Django backend, that tracks users based on the last URL segment (e.g., /youtube, …
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In this talk, I’ll delve into how GeoDjango can be used to build scalable spatial data platforms for smart cities and urban systems. Cities are fundamentally spatial systems—roads, buildings, utilities, mobility flows, and environmental sensors all exist in geographic space—and modeling these systems requires tools that can handle geospatial data at scale. GeoDjango, combined with PostGIS, provides a powerful framework for representing, querying, and visualizing this spatial information in web …
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Few debates in the Python world generate more discussion than Django vs. FastAPI. After decades of building production systems with both, we've arrived at a simple conclusion: they don't actually do the same thing, and that changes everything about how you should evaluate them. This talk walks through a structured, no-hype comparison across three areas: What they share: Python-native development experience Async support Ecosystem depth and active communities Where Django excels: Batteries-…
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Scientists and developers are solving the same problems—but rarely together. Researchers generate valuable datasets, insights, and discoveries, but these often stay locked in papers, spreadsheets, or lab notebooks. Developers, on the other hand, build scalable platforms, APIs, and user experiences, but may lack access to scientific workflows and domain expertise. Django sits at a powerful intersection: it can transform research into accessible, interactive, and impactful software. In this talk,…
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This talk was presented by Keanya Phelps at DjangoCon US 2026 in Chicago, Illinois, USA https://2026.djangocon.us/talks/opening-remarks-monday/
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Are you: attending your first tech conference? attending your first DjangoCon US? attending DjangoCon US alone? a member of an underrepresented group? If you answered "yes" to any or all of those, Orientation is for you! DjangoCon US is packed with awesome people and awesome information. But that much awesome can be overwhelming. Orientation is designed to help you get your bearings on all the awesome. As a bonus, it will also help you find your way around the venue! Living your best life …
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