mastodon 4.7.3DjangoCon Europe 2026 | April 15-19 in Athens, Greece
🎙️ TALK: Is it time for a Django Admin rewrite? If so, how? by @EmmaDelescolle@mastodon.social
Let's explore together a proof-of-concept Django admin replacement, powered by pluggy and generic views, where CRUD operations are just actions, knowledge transfers both ways, and everything feels like Django.
🌺 🇬🇷 What a start!
Day One of DjangoCon Europe 2026 was full of incredible talks, interactive workshops and cool conversations all around. Thank you everyone for bringing such amazing energy! 💌 🔥 Rest up and we'll see you tomorrow for more Django.
🇬🇷 🌺 DAY THREE has started!
Last day of talks and workshops. Soak it all in. 💙
💚 Community Partner: @django@fosstodon.org
The Django Software Foundation (DSF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development & community of Django, the high-level Python web framework. It promotes the growth of the Django ecosystem, funds community events and sprints, and upholds the project's open-source values through initiatives that foster diversity, inclusion & collaboration.
Proud to have DSF as a Community Partner. A perfect fit in every sense.
🎙️ Keynote speaker: @EvilDMP@mastodon.online
Great news! Daniele Procida, Director of Engineering at Canonical, is joining us as a keynote speaker. Beyond engineering practice, leadership and transformation, he helps organize community conferences, including the first editions of PyCon Africa and DjangoCon Africa, and supports open-source projects in improving their documentation.
📮 🎊 SCHEDULE is live!
Curious when each talk and workshop takes place? The full DjangoCon Europe 2026 schedule is now available! Explore the lineup, plan your days and get ready for five days of Django, knowledge and community that will stay indelible.
https://2026.djangocon.eu/schedule/
P.S. Today is the last day to have your name printed on your badge. Get your ticket now!!
DjangoCon Europe 2026 DAY ONE, here we go! 🇬🇷 🌺
Talks and workshops are already in full swing, people are lining up, amazing companies are at their booths and we're just getting started!🔥
🎙️ TALK: Partitioning very large tables with Django and PostgreSQL by @timb07@chaos.social
Database tables in PostgreSQL cause increasing performance and maintenance issues as they grow larger. In this talk, we'll look at ways of managing those problems with partitioning, the choices available, and how to partition existing tables at Kraken scale with Django.
⚙️ WORKSHOP: Django-Admin-Deux: From First Steps to Custom Plugins by @EmmaDelescolle@mastodon.social
Explore Django-Admin-Deux: a proof-of-concept Django admin replacement where CRUD operations are just actions, knowledge transfers both ways, and everything feels like Django. We'll dive into the core concepts behind Django-Admin-Deux and build an application together, including a custom plugin.
🎙️ TALK: Partitioning very large tables with Django and PostgreSQL by @timb07@chaos.social
Database tables in PostgreSQL cause increasing performance and maintenance issues as they grow larger. In this talk, we'll look at ways of managing those problems with partitioning, the choices available, and how to partition existing tables at Kraken scale with Django.
✨Wandering around the DjangoCon Europe 2026 venue? Stop by the
Preply booth—our Gold Sponsor—to say hi, connect and hear what they’re building.
Once again, thank you Preply for helping make this possible!💙🩷
🔥 💙 DAY TWO and still on fire!
From agentic coding to adding observability to a Django app, and even navigating the modern-day job hunt — today's talks and workshops are as good as it gets. And there's more.
Stay tuned. 🌺 👀
🌟 🐍 Grants & community sponsor: EuroPython Society
Big thanks to EuroPython Society for supporting DjangoCon Europe 2026 and making it more accessible. Their grant helps cover travel and accommodation costs for selected opportunity grant applicants.
🎙️ TALK: AI-Assisted Contributions and Maintainer Load by @paulox@fosstodon.org
AI-assisted contributions are changing how open source work happens. This talk looks at real maintainer experiences from projects like Django, Python, GNOME, and OCaml, focusing on review load, responsibility, and the governance questions that appear when AI replaces understanding instead of supporting it.
🏛️ Venue reveal! DjangoCon Europe 2026 will take place at the Athens Conservatoire — one of Greece's most historic cultural institutions and a landmark of the Bauhaus movement in Greece.
📍17–29 Rigillis Street, Athens 106 75, Greece
💎Say hello to Yodeck, our Diamond Sponsor!
Don’t miss the chance to stop by their booth, meet the team and get a closer look at the company's work. We’re SO grateful to Yodeck for supporting the conference in such a big way.🧡
🇬🇷 🌺 DjangoCon Europe 2026 kicks off TOMORROW!
Everything is ready and we can't wait to welcome you. Five days of talks, workshops, sprints and the best Django community — all under the Athenian spring sun. See you tomorrow. 🌞🏛️💻
📍Athens Conservatoire (17–29 Rigillis Street, Athens 106 75, Greece)
🕘 Registration opens at 9AM
Best believe we're throwing a party. 🍸
Attention everyone: The DjangoCon Europe 2026 After Party is happening this Thursday, right after the conference day ends. So as the sun begins to set over Athens, we'll gather for drinks, snacks and chats. No reason to leave early. 🌇
📍 Athens Conservatoire
🕰️ Thursday, 16 April · 5:30 PM
Learn more about our social events: https://2026.djangocon.eu/events/
🎙️ TALK: Oh, I Found a Security Issue by @m_holtermann@birdsite.lakedrops.com
This talk is your behind-the-scenes guide to Django's best in class security processes. Markus will give an introduction to how the team handles security issues, review the history of Django’s security issues and explore the impact of AI and LLMs on the security of Django as well as its security team.
📣 Call for Proposals: Extended
Missed the CFP deadline? Don't fret about it. We decided to give a one-week extension to the CFP process, so you have time to craft that talk proposal you've been thinking about.
⏳ Sunday, February 15 (end of day)
📮 https://2026.djangocon.eu/cfp/
🤯 Only ONE WEEK away!
From Django fundamentals to AI in the ecosystem, modern web architecture & job-hunting tips — get ready for the most amazing talks, keynotes, workshops & community.
See you next Wednesday in Athens! 🇬🇷
🎙️ TALK: When SaaS Is Not Allowed: Shipping Django as a Desktop App by @jochen@fedi.wersdoerfer.de
What if your Django app cannot rely on servers at all? This talk shows how to package Django inside Electron for confidential, offline, compute-heavy workloads, based on Steel-IQ, an open-source steel-industry simulation tool. You will see a production architecture running across macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus practical lessons from building and running it.
🇬🇷 🏛️ Meet Athens: Home of DjangoCon Europe 2026
We want this spring to be the best of times for everyone attending. That's why we put together a guide with places to stay, things to see and neighborhoods to explore while in Athens—combining must-see history, culture and art with cool spots to soak in the city's effervescence like a local.
👀🎙️ Have you submitted your proposal yet?
If not, what are you waiting for? 🤨 We want to hear all about your Django ideas, projects and the stories behind them—from frameworks and tooling to real-world lessons learned.
⏰ CFP closes on February 8, 2026
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dAWhYiRy
🎙️ TALK: How Django helps to build the biggest X-ray observatory to date by Loes Crama.
Explore how Django is applied to ESA's NewAthena project, where significant amounts of data are managed in a scientific context, illustrating how a web framework can be extended to enable a large-scale space mission.
🛸 Space missions and Django. Fascinating, right?
🎟️ Grab your ticket: https://2026.djangocon.eu/tickets/
🎙️ TALK: Scaling the database - using multiple databases with Django by @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net
The question is simple: How do you scale Django beyond a single database? The answer isn't simple, but it is fun and interesting.
🎙️ TALK: Scaling the database - using multiple databases with Django by @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net
The question is simple: How do you scale Django beyond a single database? The answer isn't simple, but it is fun and interesting.
🎙️TALK: Reliable Django Signals by Haki Benita
The existing implementation of Django Signals does not address fault tolerance in any way, which makes Signals unreliable for mission critical workflows! In this talk, Haki presents an alternative underlying implementation using the new tasks framework in Django 6, which makes Signals fault tolerant and reliable.
🎙️ TALK: Digitising Historical Caving Data with Python and Django by Andrew Northall
A pipeline using Python, Django, and LLMs to extract, structure and publish 2,700 incidents, turning old typewritten documents into useful data.
📢 Silver sponsor: Maykin
Maykin is a Dutch software company that specializes in designing and building user-friendly digital solutions for governments and public organizations. The company focuses on open-source technology, collaboration, and agile development to create secure, accessible, and sustainable web applications.
Maykin, we're truly grateful for the support. See you in Athens! 🇬🇷🌺
🎙️ TALK: Zero-Migration Encryption: Building Drop-in Encrypted Field in Django by Vjeran Grozdanic
Learn how we built a drop-in replacement for standard Django Fields at Sentry to encrypt database columns with almost no overhead & zero migrations.
🎙️ TALK: Advanced ORM kung-fu for on-demand filtering, sorting & summing 40M financial transactions by Mathias Wedeken
Harness the Django ORM for massive datasets: annotations, subqueries, window functions, conditionals & JSONB, almost entirely without raw SQL.
🎙️ TALK: Django templates on the frontend? by @christophehenry@mastodon.social
Explore Django Template Transpiler: render Django templates in JavaScript to share UI between backend and frontend without extra SSR calls. Ideal for unreliable networks.
📢 Silver sponsor: Waracle
Waracle is an end-to-end digital product partner across strategy, design, engineering, data and AI, working with organizations in Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, the Public Sector and more.
Thank you Waracle for supporting DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you in Athens! 🇬🇷
🎙️ TALK: ATLAS: Building a Zero‑Budget IT Service Management Platform with Django in the Public Sector by Georgios Poulos
Learn how ATLAS was built with Django and zero external budget for the Greek Ministry of Migration & Asylum, resulting in 70% faster incident response initiation and 98% user satisfaction.
⚡ Got 5 minutes? Share your idea at our Lightning Talks!
Happening at the end of the first 3 days of DjangoCon Europe 2026, Lightning Talks are fast, fun and about almost any topic you like. So if inspiration strikes in Athens, don't let it go. Get on stage. Share your idea. Lightning strikes every time you talk.
Sign-up will open during the conference.
💎 Community impact: Yodeck 💎
Support from our Diamond sponsor, Yodeck, plays a key role in making DjangoCon Europe 2026 possible. From enabling speakers to share their knowledge to supporting workshops and bringing the community together, their contribution is truly tangible
Thanks to Yodeck, we can create a more accessible, inclusive and collaborative experience for everyone. 🧡
🔗 Learn more about Yodeck: https://www.yodeck.com/
📢 Silver sponsor: Divio
Divio is a developer-first PaaS built for digital agencies that removes DevOps friction so teams can build, deploy, and scale web applications faster.
Thank you, Divio, for supporting DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you in Athens!
🌺 Only ONE MONTH to go!
The DjangoCon countdown has officially begun. In just one month, you could be in Athens talking about all things Django and connecting with the community under the sun. Why miss it?
✨ Community partner: WE LEAD
WE LEAD is an independent, non-profit organization with the aim of paving the way for women to rise to leadership positions in the fields of technology and innovation.
We're so happy to have WE LEAD on board for DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you in April! 🌺 🇬🇷
🎙️ TALK: Taming PostgreSQL Bloat in Production Django by @kdpisda@fosstodon.org
Your Django app gets slower every week and no amount of ORM tuning helps. The silent killer is table bloat — dead rows piling up from every UPDATE and DELETE. Learn to diagnose, fix, and prevent it.
🎙️ TALK: What's in your dependencies? Supply chain attacks on Python projects by Mateusz Bełczowski
Every pip install is an act of trust. Attackers have exploited that trust - phishing maintainers, hijacking CI/CD pipelines, turning popular packages into malware. Learn how these attacks work and practical defenses for your projects.
🚨 Last call for proposals! The CFP closes on Sunday, February 8 (end of day), so if you've been working on a talk idea, now is the time to polish it and send it in. We'd love to see you on stage this April. 🌺
🎙️ WORKSHOP: Diving into the DSF Rhythm: A session on Django Governance by Çağıl Uluşahin Sönmez
https://2024.djangocon.eu/talks/schedule/
🎟️ Grab your ticket: https://pretix.evolutio.pt/evolutio/djceu2024/
Many thanks to Kraken Tech from @OctopusEnergy for supporting DjangoConEurope 2023 as a Gold sponsor!
💥 Community Partner: Google Developer Groups Prishtina
Google Developer Group Prishtina is the local GDG community in Kosovo for developers and tech enthusiasts interested in learning about Google technologies & relevant topics. Proud to have you on board!🙏
💎 Get to know our Diamond sponsor: Yodeck 💎
Yodeck delivers the most affordable, innovative, and intuitive digital signage software, built for teams who want to start getting more from their digital screens, today.
🧡 Their mission? To democratize digital signage technology and enable organizations of any size to effortlessly communicate their message on any screen, anywhere.
📣 Sprints sponsor: Bespot
Bespot is a technology company specializing in location intelligence & real-time analytics. Its fraud detection solution uses location and behavioral signals to detect anomalies and prevent abuse.
Thank you, Bespot, for providing your space to host our sprints.
🌟 Gold sponsor: Preply 🌟
Preply creates life-changing learning experiences by pairing the magic of human tutors with the power of AI. With a global network of 100,000+ tutors teaching 90+ languages across 180 countries, Preply help learners discover the perfect tutor, craft a personalized learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing – wherever they are in the world.
Thank you, Preply, for the great support!
🏛️ Community Partner: AWS User Group Athens
AWS User Group Athens is a community for people in Greece who want to learn, share, and connect around AWS, cloud, and modern software engineering. Through meetups, talks, and community events, it brings together developers, engineers, architects, and tech enthusiasts to exchange real-world knowledge and grow together.
We're so grateful to AWS User Group Athens for joining DjangoCon Europe 2026. See you! 🇬🇷
