Entries for author "schillingt"

We're recruiting admins!

Our admin team is growing! 🌱

We're recruiting Admins to help guide our program for socials, fundraising, outreach, and program development. Enthusiastic folks with initiative read on! No Djangonaut experienced required.

This is different from session organizing (you can do both!). It's a one year term with about 5hrs of work a month. There are some synchronous meetings, but mostly async conversations on our Discord server. We have our …

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2024 Session 2 Debrief

Hello Django world 👋,

We’re coming to you from our home base here on planet Earth 🌍 with a debrief of Session 2 🚀. As a quick reminder, Djangonaut Space is an 8 week group mentorship program that focuses on building contributors and future leaders in the Django community. It consists of Djangonauts who are the mentees, Navigators who are the subject matter experts on the relevant project and …

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Djangonaut Selection Process

Hi folks!

For our first two sessions we’ve only been able to select 10% of the applicants. With such a low selection rate, it’s likely that people are going to feel demoralized after a few rejections. We’d like to share what we use to evaluate prospects and how we make our selections. The goal here isn’t to make it easier to game the system, but to encourage people to …

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