Django at PyCon FR 2025 🇫🇷

NewsBot · 7 November 2025 19:32

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Last week, we had a great time at PyCon FR 2025 - a free (!) gathering for Pythonistas in France. Here are some of our highlights.

Sprints on Django, our website, IA, marketing

Over two days, the conference started with 27 contributors joining us to contribute to Django and our website and online presence. Half in the room were complete newcomers to open source, wanting to get a taste of what it’s like behind the scenes. We also had people who were new to Django, taking the excellent Django Girls tutorial to get up to speed with the project. The tutorial is translated in 20 languages(!), so it’s excellent in situations like this where people come from all over Europe.

Carmen, one of our sprint contributors, took the time to test that our software for ongoing Board elections is accessible 💚

Discussing Django’s direction

At the sprints, we also organized discussions on Django’s direction - specifically on marketing, Artificial Intelligence, and technical decisions. Some recurring topics were:

Highlights from the State of Django 2025 report produced by JetBrains, and the need for fundraising partnerships like their ongoing https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/07/django-at-pycon-fr-2025/