Celebrating Djangonaut Space 2025 Session 5 Achievements
- raffaella
- Nov. 29, 2025
Session 5 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 and its ecosystem.
To every Djangonaut who shot for the stars—thank you for making this mission unforgettable! Your dedication, creativity, and hard work have made this session an incredible success.
Reaching for the stars
- 31 PRs Opened and 18 Merged 🎉
- 2 Pair Programming Sessions
- 3 Blog posts sharing their experience at Djangonaut Space
- 1 Django blog post: Five ways to discover Django Packages
- 1 "Updates to Django" in Django News
- 3 Djangonauts contributed to the new version of Django Debug Toolbar
- 1 lighting talk made by our Djangonaut Annabelle
Teams
Team Mars - Django
Navigator - Lilian
Captain - Sean Helvey
Djangonauts
🚀 Eddy ADEGNANDJOU
🚀 Hyerim Choi
🚀 Stephen Kihuni
Team Mercury - DjangoCMS
Navigator - Fabian Brown
Captain - Keanya Phelps
Djangonauts
🚀 Vianney Kimuri
🚀 Mar Bartolome
🚀 Vanessa Bedzra
Team Jupiter - Wagtail
Navigator - Thibaud Colas
Captain - Prashant Andoriya
Djangonauts
🚀 Collins Kubu
🚀 Ernesto Rico Schmidt
🚀 Lupyana Mbembati
🚀 Rahul Kumar
Team Neptune - Django
Navigator - Marco Richetta
Captain - Felipe Villegas
Djangonauts
🚀 Annabelle
🚀 Hwayoung Cha
🚀 Anthony Addae
Team Saturn - Django Debug Toolbar
Navigator - Rob Hudson
Captain - Eric Sherman
Djangonauts
🚀 Chiemezuo
🚀 James Gutu
🚀 Daniel Okot
Team Venus - Django Packages
Navigator - Josh Thomas
Captain - Peter
Djangonauts
🚀 Degisew Mengist
🚀 Aayush Gauba
🚀 Daniel Joey Darko
🚀 Diva Dugar
Working together
Cooperation and working together have always been at the heart of Djangonaut Space. This session, our Djangonauts truly embraced that spirit by hosting two pair programming sessions between teams. These sessions were a wonderful opportunity to learn from each other, solve problems together, and share approaches across projects. It’s exactly the kind of cross-team collaboration we dreamed of fostering, and our community made it a reality. Team Neptune worked together to share some ideas in Django, and Team Mercury worked on djangoCMS.
It's with this team effort that Mar and Vanessa have been featured on a djangoCMS blog post.
Guest Speaker Talks
Simon Charette presented his talk "Django, what the JOIN" where he explained how the ORM generatings JOIN statements in SQL queries. It was a cosmic deep dive!
David Smith presented "Django's Triage & Review Team" where he shared how the team is involved in Django's contribution process. His debrief on this mission critical team was incredibly insightful.
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:
🌟 Felipe released his first package "wagail-lms"
🌟 Raffaella reviewed a technical book
🌟 Farhan, Keanya, Pradhvan, Raphael, and Tobe became DSF Individual Members
🌟 Felipe released a brand-new package wagtail-lms
🌟 Afi delivered a keynote at PyCon Ghana, inspiring even more people in our global community.
🌟 Tim received the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize, honoring his exceptional contributions and leadership.
🌟 Yash and Bhuvnesh hosted DjangoDay India, growing the Django community in one of the largest Python ecosystems.
🌟 Afi and Dawn were named PSF Fellows for their sustained impact and service.
🌟 Tom shepherded a DEP to approval, shaping the future direction of Django itself.
🌟 Lilian improved the Trac “View Tickets” page, making it easier for contributors to navigate Django’s issue tracker.
🌟 Farhan brought django-template-partials into Django, landing a meaningful feature improvement.
Events that create connections
Conferences are a wonderful opportunity to connect and grow. This year marked the very first Django Day India, and a few Djangonauts had the chance to experience the event together. 🎉
Annabelle also gave a lightning talk at the Swiss Python Summit, where she shared her journey through Djangonaut Space. 💜
We can't wait to attend PyLadiesCon because Hwayoung and Rahmat will give a talk, and last but not least, Sarah and Afi will give a Keynote 🙌
What's next
Djangonaut Space is a booster rocket that helps Djangonauts dive deeper into contributing to the Django ecosystem. The community will be cheering you on as you take your next steps wherever your journey leads.
Ready to take off? 🚀