Paolo Melchiorre @ PyCon US (50)
This afternoon, before the Expo Hall closed, we took a big group photo together at the Django and Djangonaut Space booth 📸✨
Django Fellows, Steering Council representatives, DSF members, volunteers, contributors, and community participants all joined together.
Guido van Rossum also stopped by and shared kind words about Djangonaut Space and the constant work the Django community brings into the wider Python ecosystem 🙂
Come visit the Django Software Foundation and Djangonaut Space booth in the PyCon US 2026 expo hall ✨
If you have questions about Django, want to meet people from the community, or just say hello, you may find Django Fellows, DSF Board and Steering Council members, Djangonauts, and other community volunteers around the booth 🙂
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Currently following Pablo Galindo’s keynote at PyCon US 2026 🎤
It’s the first keynote in Spanish at PyCon US, and even as an Italian speaker I’m able to follow most of it surprisingly well 🙂
Pablo is giving a keynote that is both very interesting and genuinely funny, while talking about the life of open source maintainers and the changing world around them.
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This morning at the Django booth there was a very interesting meeting between the BeeWare and Django projects 📱✨
Russell gave a small demo showing how the Django admin could become a native mobile application using BeeWare.
Natalia and Jacob, our two Django Fellows, seemed very interested, so maybe some interesting collaboration or experiment could grow from this meeting.
I met old friends again, exchanged a few words with many people, and captured a few more moments together with photos 🙂
These small moments with the community are honestly one of the most meaningful parts of conferences like this.
Another thing I really appreciated in Pablo Galindo’s keynote was the conclusion.
After talking about maintainer pressure and the growing flow of contributions, his final message was that the antidote is still connecting more as humans.
He showed photos from Python core sprints at Arm in Cambridge and moments shared with contributors over the years.
It felt very close to the conclusion of my own talk yesterday about bringing more real human collaboration back into open source
Day two of PyCon US 2026 is over ✨
It was another intense day full of talks, discussions, hallway track conversations, and many more encounters with people from the community 📸
One of the funniest moments in Pablo Galindo’s keynote this morning was realizing that several slides were almost identical to some I used yesterday in my talk about AI-assisted contributions and maintainer load 😄
Completely different talks, prepared independently, and yet we both referenced the same stories from projects like Matplotlib and Godot.
I guess many maintainers across open source are currently running into very similar problems at the same time.
I just attended the PSF Member Lunch at PyCon US 2026 🍽️
It was really interesting to hear the updates and reports from the PSF and PyCon US organizers.
I also enjoyed the Q&A session afterwards and the chance to stay around talking with other participants and sharing experiences from the community ✨
I just joined the PyLadies Auction together with many other people here at PyCon US ✨
People donated all kinds of objects to help raise money for the PyLadies community, and the auction became both a fundraising moment and a very fun social event during dinner 😄
