Celebrating Djangonaut Space 2026 Session 6 Achievements

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Session 6 has ended, and we want to celebrate by sharing all the stellar achievements during the mission. Over the past weeks, our talented teams of Djangonauts have collaborated across time zones, tackled challenging issues, and made significant contributions to Django, its ecosystem and BeeWare. We want to thank the BeeWare project and Kattni for their pioneering of collaborating with Djangonaut Space to make contributing to open-source software more sustainable!

To every Djangonaut who shot for the starsthank you for making this mission unforgettable! Your dedication, creativity, and hard work have made this session an incredible success.

Reaching for the stars

Teams

Team Jupiter - Django

Navigator: Akash Sen
Captain: Miguel Johnson
Djangonauts: Rodrigo Vieira, Carol Ximena, Itxaso Aizpurua, Hwayoung Cha

Team Mars - Accessibility

Navigator: Eliana Rosselli
Captain: Eddy Adegnandjou
Djangonauts: Kanishk Pachauri, Brian Oginga, Sachi Jain

Team Mercury - BeeWare

Navigator: Kattni
Captain: Johanan Oppong Amoateng
Djangonauts: Juan Yornet, Scott Halgrim, Vui Nguyen

Team Neptune - django CMS

Navigator: Fabian Braun
Captain: Nathan Bransby
Djangonauts: JekayinOluwa Olabemiwo, Irene Agigiba, Daniel

Team Saturn - Django

Navigator: Sarah Boyce
Captain: Mar Bartolome
Djangonauts: Kanin Kearpimy, Aina Rakotonjanahary, Anna Makarudze

Team Venus - Django Simple Deploy

Navigator: Eric Matthes
Captain: Sean Helvey
Djangonauts: James Alexander, Victoria Nyamai, Jan Raasch

Guest Speaker Talks

Jacob Walls Session 6 Talk
We're all becoming reviewers (maybe we already were) - Jacob Walls

Jacob Walls presented his talk "We're all becoming reviewers (maybe we already were)" where shared his thoughts on testing, code review, and how GenAI factors into things. We pondered the deep space mysteries of OSS!!

Clifford Gamma Talk Session 6
Growing with Django's Open Source Community - Clifford Gama

Clifford Gama presented "Growing with Django's Open Source Community" where he shared his journey into open-source and contributing to Django. His mission log for his journey to being a Triage and Review team member was inspiring!

Growing Beyond the Session

While our Djangonauts made incredible progress within Session 5, their impact reached far beyond their assigned projects. This community continues to shine across the wider Python and Django ecosystem, and we’re immensely proud to celebrate their achievements:

🌟 Hwayoung, James, Chimezuo, Marco, Nina and Sean became DSF Individual Members
🌟 Hwayoung and Johanan became "Updates to Django" collaborators
🌟 Hwayoung was awarded the Outstanding PyLady Award for 2026
🌟 Johanan became a member of the Website Working Group
🌟 Eddy, Remy and Sean had their first PRs to Django merged
🌟 Eddy was offered a new job
🌟 Afi, Dawn, and Sarah Abderemane was a keynote speaker at PyLadiesCon
🌟 Amanda, Hwayoung, and Rahmat spoke at PyLadiesCon
🌟 Andy, Farhan, Keanya and Velda were all participants on the Django Chat podcast
🌟 Rachell and Tim were invited to by keynote speakers at PyCon US about Djangonaut Space
🌟 Aayush, Dawn, Kattni, Mariatta, Mario, and Paolo had talks accepted at PyCon US
🌟 Aayush had two solo papers published on quantum inspired deep learning models
🌟 Priya and Ryan were elected to the DSF board

What's next

Djangonaut Space is a booster rocket that helps Djangonauts dive deeper into contributing to the Django ecosystem (and beyond). The community will be cheering you on as you take your next steps wherever your journey leads.
Ready to take off? 🚀