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April 27, 2026 » Thibaud’s blog » [Archived Version]
I’m lucky to be representing Wagtail as part of the Green Web Foundation’s Grid-aware Websites project. Here are some of my thoughts on the concept, and what I hope to bring back to the Wagtail and Django communities. Those reflections are from two meetings about the project, the very beginning, so there’s lots to figure out still! But here we are. For context – read Introducing our grid-aware websites project from the Green Web Foundation, and for even more context, Hannah’s Reflections on…
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As of a few weeks ago, I’m the President of the Django Software Foundation for 2025. I know, right! You might be wondering what that means, I do too. Truth is a lot of the roles and responsibilities at the Foundation have a nebulous definition. But we’ll figure it out. What it means for me More than anything, it’s an honor to be in such a role, and a mandate for me to do more of what I’ve already been doing at the Foundation. Plain and simple, I want to keep Django and its community on an …
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We’re excited to announce that Django has been awarded the CHAOSS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bronze Badge! This badge reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community for all Djangonauts. It’s part of the CHAOSS DEI Project Badging initiative. Our new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Project Statement details all the ways in which we want to create an environment where everyone can participate and thrive, and complements our pre-existing Dja…
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The results of the 2024 Wagtail headless survey are here! There are plenty of expected results plus a few surprises. Late last year, we ran a survey of people who build headless sites with Wagtail, or are considering developing a headless site with Wagtail. It’s a follow-up to our 2022 Wagtail headless survey. We’ll use those survey results to inform Wagtail’s direction as part of RFC 100: Headless support improvements. 46 people responded (thank you!), compared to 29 in 2022 – here are the…
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As of a few weeks ago, the Django Software Foundation reached 400 individual members. I’m really happy with this! And particularly that the pace at which we gain new members is increasing. Those 400 members all contributed to Django’s future. For a community-driven project like ours, individual contributors are essential. Nominate more people We really do need more people. 400 members is a lot, but at the scale of Django that’s probably around 0.01% of the framework’s users. Nominate mor…
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Talk at FOSDEM 2025, work in progress! Slides are in Google Docs, with two options: Read-only mode: Shifting DX expectations: keeping Django relevant 🫣 Commenting mode: Shifting DX expectations: keeping Django relevant 🫣
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I have this list of 50k Django projects I put together, and thought it might be more interesting to share specific verticals rather than the whole thing. Today: Django in governments around the world! Here’s an overview of all countries using Django in their government websites. That’s 89 countries according to my dataset. Top users Here are the top 10 highest numbers of Django sites by country. Country Government websites Brazil 129 …
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Django 5.2’s final release is scheduled for April 2025, weeks from now. But pre-releases are out already, and package maintainers are busy supporting the new release! Packages already declaring support There’s 23 released on PyPI, which were tested with the Django 5.2 alpha 1 release. That’s out of about 1394 packages that declare which versions their support (out of 17k packages in total). django-csp v4.0b3 django-bird v0.14.2 django-filter v25.1 django-tailwind-cli v4.1.0 djan…
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Sharing my highlights of DjangoCongress JP 2025, an online Django event with mixed Japanese-English content. With time zones in the way, it was an event I could only share the very beginning and end of, having to sleep in the middle! But I really enjoyed the bits I managed to attend. Talks The program had lots of different things. I personally really like to see mixed-language events like this. I only know a few words of Japanese, but I could understand a few words (mizu, neko, etc 🥲). But…
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Yes, you can come to DjangoCon Europe by train! Here’s how, for this year’s conference in Dublin. The goal Why would we do this? Well to reduce our carbon footprint of course! The main carbon emissions related to conferences are from transportation, specifically flights from attendees who aren’t local. We can reduce this by encouraging people to use lower-footprint modes of transport, like trains. Who this is for For a conference in Dublin, everyone who’s in the green areas on this isochr…
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