DjangoCon Europe 2025 vibes and photos 📷️
We had a great time; and hope you did too. See you next on the What’s New in Wagtail webinar!
There’s nothing like DjangoCon – the perfect mix of great talks, conversations in the hallway track, and good vibes on the way there and back and everywhere in-between. Hits the mark every year. This year our core team members Sage, Vince, and Thibaud were in attendance.
The talks
The quality was super high! We found it super interesting to hear Bhuvnesh talk about Zango as a meta-framework around Django, as we often think about Wagtail as a meta-framework of sorts.
We were also treated to an excellent keynote from Mia Bajić about software bugs in history, which got the whole room laughing and thinking. 256 axles, who would have seen that coming!
Our core team member Sage Abdullah did a lovely lightning talk on trying out Wagtail, featuring our new starter template ❤️.
Agnès Haasser (tut_tuuut on socials), treated us all to a lovely, accessible, quirky overview of two-factor auth. These days it increasingly feels like all Wagtail sites should be using MFA!
And our core team member Vince Salvino shared his experience at CodeRed hosting more than 1000 Wagtail and Django sites. Showcasing the impact of AI training on sites traffic! (Vince will be at PyCon US with a poster session next if you want to say hi).
Wagtail meetup
During one of the coffee breaks, we organized an informal Wagtail meetup, chatting about the CMS, the community, and the industry with about 30 people in the room either using or considering Wagtail.
We discussed the use cases of people moving to Wagtail from WordPress, and in particular how a ready-made migration kit would help a lot.
We also discussed a common pain point around writing tests with Wagtail data – definitely one we need to improve or at least document how experienced users approach this.
The sprints
Sage, Vince, and Thibaud were joined by new contributor Antoine Rodriguez and friend of Wagtail Chris Adams to spend time on Wagtail during the sprint.
Antoine made his first contribution to Wagtail! An improvement to the WAGTAILADMIN_LOGIN_URL setting, with support from Sage, while Chris worked on rotating images directly in the CMS; and Vince and Thibaud looked into our demo site.
The trip
Dublin is a lovely city, with lots to do and lots of interesting and quirky places to visit during the conference.
The weather was decent, and some of us took the opportunity to even take a dip Irish Sea 🥶, as is tradition at DjangoCon Europe.
The celebrations
The conference was also an occasion to celebrate the 20th birthday of the Django framework!
And there was even a cake!
Up next
Our next big event is our free What’s new in Wagtail webinar, returning in mid-May. And Wagtail people will also be at PyCon US 2025!
