2024-09-23 –, Junior Ballroom
I first learned Django back in 2018 at a university in Indonesia. In 2019, I took a deep dive into Django's codebase. Five years later, I got a job in the UK and gave talks at conferences in the US and Europe, including this one.
This is a story of how Django changed people's lives – and how you played a part in it.
The year was 2018. I was studying computer science at the University of Indonesia. I learned Django as part of a web programming course. At the time, Django felt just like any other framework out there – it's part of the tech stack that you use.
A year later, I tried my luck with Django in Google Summer of Code. I took a deep dive into Django's codebase to implement the cross-database JSONField. The feature managed to make it in Django 3.1.
Fast forward to now, I've got a job in the UK to work on the Django-powered Wagtail CMS. Since then, I've had the opportunity to give talks at conferences in Europe and the US, including this one.
This is a story of how Django changed <del>my life</del> people's lives – and how you played a part in it.
In this talk, we'll go through:
- How Django can be used to teach web programming
- Django's participation in Google Summer of Code
- The awesome Django community and what it means for us
- What we can do to make Django change the lives of even more people
Back in 2019, I participated in Google Summer of Code with Django, during which I implemented the cross-database JSONField that became available in Django 3.1. Now, I work as a Developer at Torchbox, building new features and improvements to the Django-based Wagtail CMS and its ecosystem.
Outside of the Django world, I maintain my project giscus, a comment system powered by GitHub Discussions. You can find me @laymonage on GitHub, Fosstodon, Twitter, and other sites.