Will VincentOpenAI acquiring Astral is sending shockwaves through the Python and AI programming communities.
I believe it opens up a 4th way to solve a historic problem: how to fund open source.
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Djangonaut Space | Django Steering Council | Django Commons
Djangonaut Space | Django Steering Council | Django Commons
Protip: Don't join the zoom for your afternoon meeting before your morning google meet meeting, then try to figure out why Meet can't get permission to use your camera.
Bruno AllaDjango REST Framework 3.17 has just been released 🎉
Long overdue release with official support for Django 6.0 and Python 3.14
Also, new docs theme ✨ (and many others changes)
I joined @kjaymiller on his live stream series, "Elephant in the room" where we discussed a package we built for #Django on top of the #PostgreSQL Anonymizer extension.
If you are interested in faking/anonymizing data in your staging/dev environments, give it a look and let us know what you think!
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/18/django-security-label/
django-security-label: A third-party package to anonymize data in your models
Django Security Label is a Django third-party package to help you define rules to dynamically anonymize/mask your data for PostgreSQL databases. It makes use of the PostgreSQL Anonymizer extension and supports creating any type of SECURITY LABEL.
The COOSS law: The further you dive into community organizing in open source, the more communication platforms you end up joining.
Or as @webology may put it, "Do you want to buy nitro? ⛽🔋"
Django MombasaMeet Sanaipei 🌟
Started with basic Python — no data tools. Then Django, an internship, and a bold step: “I want to do data.”
She analyzed 495 applications, got recognized, and never looked back.
Today she leads data work, teaches others, and found her community in Arusha.
“If you want anything dealing with data, come to me.”
Django Girls Mombasa | April 24, 2026
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@treyhunner I've really been enjoying the book recommendation "Factfulness". Good call!
Rodrigo VieiraHi there! Here's my new post on my Djangonaut adventures where I kinda live-blogged how I investigated and implemented the code for my first PR for Django core, ever!
https://dev.to/rodbv/djangonaut-diaries-week-2-working-on-the-first-issue-3756
If you're new to contributing to Django and you're using an LLM, please consider reading this. We want to bring you into the community, but we can't do that only interacting with an LLM's output.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/
StephanieI've seen themes of people talking about how AI slop is causing a lot of demoralization and inefficiencies in open source and is ultimately disincentivizing contributors and communities to stick around (e.g. most recently saw news of Jazzband shutting down). Wondering if anyone's been thinking about or has already started collaborative groups organized around advocating for systemic ways to mitigate the negative impacts, e.g. petitions, conversations with relevant stakeholders, etc? #opensource