Jacob is the newest Django Fellow and we talk about his background, transitioning from music to programming, what to expect in Django 6.0 this December, and more.

We're back after the summer break, discussing DjangoCon US last week, Django 6.0 feature freeze, adding APIs to core Django, and Django on the Med next month.

Roman Pronskiy is the Executive Director of the PHP Foundation and a Developer Advocate at JetBrains. We discuss PHP’s evolution over the years, Laravel vs Symfony, and what Python can learn from the PHP ecosystem.

Eric is the author of Python Crash Course, the Mostly Python newsletter, and the django-simple-deploy package. We talk about rewriting the Django deployment story, different hosting providers, and teaching Python & Django to newcomers.

Chris is a Senior Staff Engineer at WellSky, a software company in the health industry. We discuss his background as a graphic designer, learning Python (and Django) as an adult, his multiple conference talks on HTMX, why he’s a fan of event sourcing, and more.

A quick recap episode sharing thoughts and highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, and hallway track highlights.

Frank is a former President of the Django Software Foundation, a current Steering Council member, and the founder of RevSys. We discuss using LLMs daily, most notably Claude Code and Aider, and switching over entirely to uv for project management.

Elaine and Jon are the Chair and Co-Chair of PyCon US, taking place in Pittsburgh, PA, this May. We discuss how to make the most of a conference, in-person vs online, what to wear, and more.

Lily joins us again to talk about the new Steering Council, composite primary keys in Django 5.2, working with uv package manager, and more.

Florian is a long-time Django contributor who previously served on the Steering Council and Security Team. We discuss changes to Django over the last 20 years, switching over to `uv`, why he’s not a fan of environment variables, and drawing inspiration from other frameworks.

Jib is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB working on the newly-released official Django MongoDB backend. We discuss building out this new support, future plans, and his previous career at Meta.

Emma is a longtime Django community member and newly elected member of the Django 6.x Steering Council. We discuss the future of Django, what it can learn from the Ember community, class-based views, django-ninja, and more.

Sheena is a long-time Django developer and teacher currently focused on Prelude Tech, small workshops focused on topics like Django, HTMX, and Git.

Carlton and Will catch up after the holidays and look ahead to Django news in 2025, new tools, new roles, launching the LearnDjango.com site, upcoming Django events, and more.

Raphael is the founder of pretix, an open-source ticketing platform. We discuss its early iterations, the technical challenges of ticketing, using Celery and Django REST Framework, DecimalField vs IntegerField for currency, and more.

Hynek is a core Python contributor, author of the popular attrs library, and an engineer at Variomedia, a Germany-based web hosting company. We discuss Python performance, tooling (especially uv), and more.

Bryton is the co-founder of Cured Compliance, an Australia-based startup providing compliance software for butchers. We discuss the inspiration behind the product, building it from scratch with Django, multitenancy, using Django Q, managing iOT with temperature gauges, and more.

Mariatta is a Python Core Team member, Python podcaster, and former PyCon Chair. We discuss her work with Python over the years, using Django in her day job, and her new consultancy, CMD Limes.

Thibaud is a Django Software Foundation Board Member (Secretary) and serves on the Django accessibility team. He is also on the core team for Wagtail and works at Torchbox. We discuss the current status of Django, the upcoming DSF Board elections, opportunities available for community members, and more.

Tim is the Secretary of DEFNA, the organization that runs DjangoCon US each year. He is also a founder of Djangonaut.space, maintainer of django-debug-toolbar, Google Summer of Code mentor, and more. We discuss last week’s conference, current changes afoot in the Django community, his day job working at an education analytics company, and more.