Entries for author "Tim Schilling (schillingt)"

New Admins and Advisors for Djangonaut Space

We're excited⚡ to announce that the admin team for Djangonaut Space has two new members, Lilian Tran and Raffaella Suardini! We’ve also added Priya Pahwa to our advisor team. Lilian, Raffaella and Priya were all Djangonauts in Session 1 and have continued to participate and grow Djangonaut Space since then. 🚀

A screenshot of the Djangonaut Space Admins and Advisors on a video call together.

So join us in congratulating them and learning a bit more about them …

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Announcing Djangonaut Space Session 6 Applications Open!

Are you ready to embark on a celestial journey through the Django universe? We’re elated to open the doors for Djangonaut Space Session 6 applications! As part of our ongoing mission to nurture growth and expertise within the Django community, this session offers participants an extraordinary opportunity to advance their skills and deepen their involvement in the Django ecosystem. Whether you’re eager to sharpen your technical expertise or …

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Djangonaut Space bookmarks

Finding opportunities to contribute to Django

When folks want to get involved in open source, they tend to want a very specific set of directions to accomplish that. 🚀 Which makes sense, they want to start on their journey and there are likely checkpoints or markers for it. ✨ They should be able to follow those all the way to, umm, open source involvement? 💜

Which brings up a big challenge in helping people get …

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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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