Panel Discussion: Two Decades of Django with Velda Kiara
summary
A twenty-year retrospective that actually helps: concrete numbers and projects, not platitudes. Notes that 52% install via DRF and that the deployment story is broken push toward solutions like Django prod server, Django simple deploy and TOML settings. Governance plans list three goals: a new features process, a community third‑party page, and revise DEP 10. Release work includes running 6.0 alphas and a manual-release checklist tool that emits a markdown checklist to avoid human errors. Fundraising stalls and an attempted executive‑director hire expose revenue gaps in sustaining fellows and paid contributor pathways.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Two decades of Django
- 4:17Django programs and committees
- 6:44What we love about Django
- 9:12What Django should stop
- 12:44When did you realize you were part of the community
- 19:31Steering council lessons
- 25:36Sustaining fellow’s work
- 28:48Django and Python lessons
- 31:13Advice for new organizers
- 34:45PSF and DSF relationship
- 37:33Proudest Django release
- 40:24DSF challenges
- 42:30Innovation for beginners
- 43:55Steering council changes
- 45:43Hot takes on Django’s future
- 52:26Closing remarks
- 53:10Q&A
