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The future of Django @ DjangoCon Africa 2025

2025-08-13

Talk at DjangoCon Africa 2025, work in progress!

Slides are in Google Docs, with two options:

django – ⭐️ 80k
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
wagtail – 19k
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
draftail – 0.6k
📝🍸 A configurable rich text editor built with Draft.js
dsf-annual-report
2024 Annual Impact Report
wagtail-bakerydemo-archive – 3
Static snapshots of Wagtail’s bakerydemo across past versions of the CMS.
wagtail-tooling-artifacts
wagtail-tutorial-site
bakerydemo-editor-guide – 1
A copy of Wagtail’s official bakerydemo demo site, meant to match our editor guide.
django_admin_tests – 8
Automated accessibility tests for Django, based on Pa11y & Lighthouse
bakerydemo-ai
readability-group-survey – 4
Not my work – Results from The Readability Group’s survey, as presented at Axe Con 2021
timeline-of-django
Data-driven review of Django’s past, present and future.
vector-pony – 1
Public domain vector art of the Django pony

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