The incredible Djangonaut Space project

-- A talk I gave at DjangoCon Europe 2025

In this talk we will see what the Djangonaut Space program is up close, understand its goal and its innovative strength. Analyzing it from the internal point of view, but also from that of its participants, in the hope of inspiring other people to participate.

https://www.paulox.net/2025/04/25/djangocon-europe-2025/

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1. The incredible Djangonaut Space project The incredible Djangonaut Space project DjangoCon Europe 2025 PAOLO MELCHIORRE www.paulox.net
2. Ciao! The incredible Djangonaut Space project DjangoCon Europe 2025 PAOLO MELCHIORRE www.paulox.net
5. ROME
6. BOLOGNA
7. PESCARA
8. © 1997 Paolo Melchiorre CC BYSA
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11. paulox@net:~$ python3 Python 3.13.3 (main, ...) [GCC 15.0.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. ...
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16. “ “Django support as many features as possible on all database backends. However, not all database backends are alike …” — Django “Databases”
17. Paolo Melchiorre Kickstarter 17
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34. Paolo Melchiorre 🌐 www.paulox.net 🐍 PSF fellow 🦄 DSF director 🧡 Django Girls+ coach 🚀 Djangonaut Space navigator 󰏢 PyCon Italia organizer 🐬 Python Pescara founder © 2022 Bartek Pawlik CC BYNCSA
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44. ““Djangonaut Space … is a mentoring initiative dedicated to expanding contributions and diversifying contributors within the Django community.” — 2023 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize
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48. 🗓 8 week 👥 Teams 󰳒 1 Navigator 󰳑 1 Captain 󰥗 3 or 4 Djangonauts 🎉 Celebrate wins Djangonaut Space Program https://djangonaut.space
49. 🤩 Venus Django Core) 🥳 Saturn Django Core) 🤩 Neptune Accessibility) 🥳 Mars Django CMS Session 3 teams djangonaut.space/comms/2024/10/23/session-3-team
56. 󰛝 40 11 calls with Captains 💻 32 Weekly team meetings ☑ 29 PRs in Django / CMS ✅ 20 PRs merged 📢 4 Django News "Updates to Django" 📝 3 Blog posts authored by Djangonauts Session 3 results https://djangonaut.space/sessions/2024-session-3
57. Team Saturn 🥳 Session 3 🚀 Mission Control: Django Core 󰥗 Djangonauts: Yash, Daniel, Maria 󰳒 Navigator: Paolo 󰳑 Captain: Miguel
64. Takeaways 💡 To be a better contributor 🎯 Focus on something you like 󰥗 Learn more about it 󰳒 Share it with your peers 󰳑 Mentoring on what you like
65. @djangonaut@indieweb.social /djangonaut-space Djangonaut Space djangonaut.space
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67. PyCon Italia 2025 Come for the code, stay for the carbs. 🍝💻🍕 https://2025.pycon.it BOLOGNA
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