For the last year, Thibaud Colas and I have had a weekly DSF co-working session — we get on a video call and spend an hour quietly working together on DSF things. It's worked well to help us carve out ...

The Django Software Foundation (DSF) is the owner of the Django trademark, and as such, it is necessary for us to protect this mark. Part of this protection is to clearly define criteria that must be ...

Like the technical community as a whole, the Django team and community is made up of a mixture of professionals and volunteers from all over the world, working on every aspect of the mission - ...

The Open Source Pledge is a commitment for member companies to pay OSS maintainers meaningfully for their work. When maintainers are adequately supported, they can better sustain their projects, ...

Nominations are open for the 2025 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors. In 2023 we introduced a staggered term for directors. Of our 7 directors, there are 4 positions currently open, with ...

Today we've issued the 5.1.2 bugfix release. The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is ...

The meeting was led by Chaim Kirby.

Each year, our friends at JetBrains, the creators of PyCharm, run an incredible deal. You get a 30% discounted year of PyCharm, AND the DSF gets 100% of the money. Yes, 100%! It's making a donation ...

Platitudes are cheap. We've all heard organizations say they're committed to "diversity" and "tolerance" without ever getting specific, so here's our stance on it: We welcome you. We welcome people of ...