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Hitting the Home Stretch: Help Us Reach the Django Software Foundation's Year-End Goal!

Since last week, the Django Software Foundation has reached 95% of its goal, and I appreciate your consideration in helping it meet the remaining 5%.

djangoproject.com

DjangoCon Europe - Call for Proposals

The Call for Proposals (CFP) for DjangoCon Europe 2026 is officially open! This event will be in Athens, Greece, from April 15-19, 2026. Submission deadline: Sunday, February 8, 2026 (end of day)

djangocon.eu

Updates to Django

Today, "Updates to Django" is presented by Raffaella from Djangonaut Space! 🚀

Last week we had 16 pull requests merged into Django by 15 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to H. White, Krishnaprasad MG, Jonathan Biemond, and Nilesh Pahari for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

News in Django 6.0:

News in Django 6.1:

Django Newsletter

Articles

Querying Django Tasks

Django 6.0's new tasks framework makes it possible to discover, inspect, and run tasks across your project without Celery, and this post shows how to programmatically find and execute those tasks using app imports and backend-aware Task inspection.

paultraylor.net

Speed or Power? With Django, you don't have to choose. 🚀

Django's batteries included design lets developers move fast while still delivering secure, scalable, and production ready web applications.

scribe.rip

PEP 770 Software Bill‑of‑Materials (SBOM) data from PyPI, Fedora, and Red Hat

PEP 770 is now live, enabling standardized SBOMs inside Python wheels, with early adoption across PyPI, auditwheel, Fedora, and Red Hat to improve supply chain transparency and reduce vulnerability scan false positives.

sethmlarson.dev

Getting Started with Django - Project Setup

A beginner-friendly walkthrough that shows how to set up a clean Django project from scratch using virtual environments, a flat project layout, and a quick sanity check with the development server.

dev.to

My DjangoCon Africa 2025, and UbuCon Africa 2025

Personal recap of DjangoCon Africa 2025 highlighting community driven talks, accessible Django contributions, secure Metabase embeddings, workshops that enabled beginners to contribute to open source.

chrisdevcode.com

My 2026 year in review

A solo Django developer reflects on a packed 2025, covering consistent blogging, AI-assisted product building, community involvement at DjangoCon Europe, and lessons learned balancing startups, client work, and open source.

softwarecrafts.co.uk

Events

DjangoCon US: Call for Venue Proposals 2027-28

DjangoCon US 2026 is tentatively planning to return to Chicago. Where will we be the following year or two? We need your help in making that decision!

defna.org

Podcasts

Django Chat #192: From Bootcamp to Project Manager - Keanya Phelps

Keanya is a project manager at Caktus Group and Chair of DjangoCon US this year. We discuss her transition into coding via a bootcamp, working as a software engineer, using AI on the job, and her current role as a project manager.

djangochat.com

Django Job Board

We've got a fresh batch of new Python and Django roles this week, including senior, security-focused, and founding engineer positions across remote and hybrid teams.

Senior Python Developer at Cial Dun & Bradstreet 🆕

Software Engineer at Internet Archive 🆕

Founding Full-Stack Senior Engineer (UK ONLY) - Fully Remote at MyDataValue 🆕

Python/Django Senior Application Security Engineer at Energy Solutions

Python / Django Developer at Client of Foxley Talent

Staff Software Engineer at Bluebird Kids Health

Django Newsletter

Projects

loopwerk/django-generic-notifications

A flexible, multi-channel notification system for Django applications with built-in support for email digests, user preferences, and extensible delivery channels.

github.com

huynguyengl99/chanx

A batteries-included WebSocket framework for Django Channels, FastAPI, and ASGI-based applications.

github.com

codingjoe/django-crontask

Cron style scheduler for Django's task framework.

github.com

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24 Dec 2025 6:00pm GMT

My 2026 year in review

As I prepared this post I realised I a lot more had happened this year than I thought, so without further a do here are the highlights I remember.

The new year started strong with me achieving my goal of writing a blog post every week day for a year. Since then I have scaled it back to approxmiately weekly, but there have been longer gaps over holidays or when worked was a bit too busy. It was a definite bonus to get 9 of my articles featured in Django News this year! The other content production I have been doing this year is a short podcast called "In Progress" which is a public-ish show about what I am working on week to week, I do plan to make this public at some point!

My big focus this year has been building an initial build for a startup I am co-founding. It's in the financial services space and I have a deadline for the end of January 2026. It's taken much longer than I would have liked, partly due to the table stakes features that were required, partly due to only being able to work part-time on it for most the year. Context switching between this and other client work/projects is a killer for productivity. However a win was moving to working mostly full-time from September and the pace certainly picked up then. The other contributing factor is LLM and agents finally clicking for me in my workflow. I don't think I would be as far in the build if it hadn't worked out for me.

On the topic of AI, I see it as a useful tool that has enabled me to ship some ideas and products much quicker as a solo developer than previously. django-deadcode is an example of this. Additionally plenty of features in the startup and some client projects. My general view is that the human work has shifted left towards the product understanding and those that understand that along with technical knowledge are benefitting right now. That said I'm not sure the current technological approach is sustainable so I am personally ready to switch back to the 'old' way or use a local model to continue using an LLM.

Django continued to be a large focus for my free time this year. I attended DjangoCon Europe for the second time and it was great to meet the community especially after interacting with folks online for so long over the last couple of years, there was a lot of fun to be had and I plucked up the courage to give a lighting talk about my 100 words goal and my startup sponsored the conference which was cool. Django Social's in Cambridge continued but at slightly slower pace mostly down to me forgetting to organise a date each month! In the online world, I now chair the Online Community Working Group and have become an admin on the Discord server. Finally I shipped a couple of packages, the previously mentioned django-deadcode was an AI experiment to see how much Claude could do before I even had to clone the repo locally (turns out a lot!). Second was finally pushing django-prodserver over the start line. I say start line as there is plenty of more work to do for this package and perhaps a merge into core Django?

The final piece of work life is I shipped the latest feature of Comfort Monitor Live, yay! However lost the 2 paying customers I had. I would like to round off the product at some point (1 more feature left), but it's currently on pause as my focus is on the items I have already mentioned in this post.

Finally there was a good amount of personal highlights, we upgrade to an electric cargo bike this year which has been lovely and I got a new single speed after the one I built was declared unsafe to ride after a service. Our holiday to the USA was some well needed rest along with fun on various camping trips (with family and with Cub Scouts). There were a few weddings this year and plenty of socials with friends old and new. On the subject of Cub Scouts it was great awarding several of the Cubs leaving with the highest award they can achieve, the Silver Chief Scout Award, it has taken us a few years to get organised, but it lovely to see them work hard and be rewarded for it.

So with the busy year almost done (just Christmas and 2 year old birthday to celebrate), I will see you all next year. Enjoy your Christmas and the celebration of our Saviour being born! (or however you celebrate!)

24 Dec 2025 6:00am GMT