Jan. 19, 2024

Django News - DjangoCon Europe 2025 Call for Proposals - Jan 19th 2024

News

Django Fellow Mariusz Felisiak announced he is stepping down after five years. Thank you for all the hard work, Mariusz!!!

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The CFP is open until March 1st to submit your talk proposals.

evolutio.pt

An important update on the EU's Cyber Resilience Act.

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The Python Software Foundation has welcomed Petr Viktorin as the new Deputy Developer in Residence and Serhiy Storchaka as the Supporting Developer in Residence to form a full residency team focused on improving CPython, with funding from Bloomberg and an anonymous donor.

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Django Software Foundation

DjangoCon Europe 2024 will be held June 5th-9th in Vigo, Spain, but they're already looking ahead to the 2025 conference. Learn more about what it takes to host this amazing conference!

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Updates to Django

Last week we had 15 pull requests merged into Django by 12 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to Denys Halenok, Alexander Lazarević, Syed Waheed, and Eva Nanyonga for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Exciting recent developments:

Last week's main update to the Django codebase was that more fields have been exposed for GeoIP2.country() and GeoIP2.city(). See the Django 5.1 release notes for more details.

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Articles

The first entry from a new Djangonaut in the current cohort.

dgplug.org

Explains database is locked errors in Django when using SQLite, and how to solve them.

follow up in case it's resolved: https://mastodon.social/@anze3db@fosstodon.org/111765707809972642

pecar.me

A very detailed look at switching from the Django ORM to SQLAlchemy and how to avoid some unexpected behaviors.

github.io

One approach to working with Tailwind, Javascript/Typescript, and Django.

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Videos

An update on the development and recent updates to the djangoproject.com website.

youtu.be

A talk about transitioning from Excel to Django to enable a national installer of battery energy storage solutions to optimize energy storage configurations, enhance accuracy, ensure reliability, and improve quality assurance.

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An exploration of the evolution of AfroPython and the impact of Python and Django on the journey.

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Projects

Enhance your Django developer experience: CLI and Guides for the Modern Django Developer.

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An updated image field option vs Django's built-in models.ImageField.

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