Nov. 1, 2024

Django News - Django Girls Turns 10 - Nov 1st 2024

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News

There are 21 individuals who have chosen to stand for election, and here is a complete list including their candidate statements.

Voting closes on November 15, 2024, at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth.

djangoproject.com

Django Girls has turned 10! We’re so proud to reach this momentous milestone and of everything the community has achieved!

During the past decade, 2467 volunteers in 109 countries have run 1137 free workshops. More than 24,500 women in 593 cities have attended our events, and for many of them, Django Girls was their first step towards a career in tech.

The results speak for themselves.

djangogirls.org

In this year’s Octoverse report, Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub.

github.blog

PSF Fellow nominations for Q4 2024 are open until November 20th—nominate someone whose contributions to the Python community deserve recognition.

jonafato.com

Updates to Django

Today's 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 21 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including 5 first-time contributors! 🎉

Congratulations to Karol Alvarado, Abigail Afi Gbadago 🚀 , amirreza sohrabi far, Emme Bravo 🚀, Sarah Sanger🚀 and tainarapalmeira 🚀 for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! ⛵

Coming in Django 5.2

Django Newsletter

Articles

Part 20 of Eric Matthes's excellent series focuses on staying informed about Django code and community.

mostlypython.com

The uv package manager can also install Python for you. Should you use this feature in production?

pythonspeed.com

The author of the new package, dj-beat-drop, expands on his DjangoCon US lightning talk about improving the experience for new Django developers.

epicserve.com

A short and sweet tip about Django's FileField and ImageFields.

startcodingnow.com

Django Commons is a new project similar (but with significant differences) to the long-standing Django Jazzband organization.

ryancheley.com

Emma explores a new approach to Django template tags by introducing class-based tags for easier reusability and customization, making complex template tag creation more manageable.

has-a.blog

Customize form options for multi-tenant SaaS apps with the new django-tenant-options package, which enables standardized, flexible forms across tenants while preserving data integrity and consistency.

jacklinke.com

Videos

Learn how to significantly enhance user experience with HTMX, covering practical examples like click-to-edit interfaces, infinite scrolling, and real-time search, demonstrating how HTMX can simplify development and improve performance.

djangotv.com

The story of Data Hub, a research project in epidemiology that integrated data processing pipelines in Django, fought with the documentation to build, deployed, and tried to make reusable for use-cases in other domains.

djangotv.com

In this talk, we go through how to create, extend and replace existing management commands. We see how to use other programs from manage.py, setup proxy connections and integrate secrets.

djangotv.com

Podcasts

Mariatta is a Python Core Team member, Python podcaster, and former PyCon Chair. We discuss her work with Python over the years, using Django in her day job, and her new consultancy, CMD Limes.

djangochat.com