Icon-only options in a customizable <select> break three things: ❌️ users who don't recognize the icon have no help ❌️screen readers have nothing to announce ❌️browsers w/o support show an empty dropdown There's just 1 fix for all three cases: keep the text Learn more:

The DSF needs help. $500,000 in annual funding would allow us to sustain our three Fellows, maintain operational support for the DSF, create a clear path to hiring an Executive Director, and expand our ability to support the Django ecosystem at scale. www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026...

Django Girls workshop is happening in Kraków! Apply here: djangogirls.org/en/krakow2/
Learn and write your first blog with Django guided by coaches.
The workshop is free 🧡 Do you know someone who will be interested? Spread the word! ✨ 🧁 The application will close on July 10th.

Did you know 8% of men have some form of color blindness? I did, but what I didn't know is the great website @xirclebox.com has created to provide this info and even an extension to test color blindness and low vision. colorblind.fyi #a11y

Announcing the 2026 Django Developers Survey 🌈 ❓ Tell us how you use Django. 🧠 Inform the Django ecosystem and DSF to make great decisions. 🔁 Re-share with your communities. 🏁 All survey results are published after the survey closes. surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/bs-djang... #Django

May's DSF member of the month is Bhuvnesh Sharma! Bhuvnesh is a Django contributor and GSoC org admin for the Django Software Foundation. He created Django India community 🇮🇳 Learn more about Bhuvnesh here! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026... #django #DSFMemberOfTheMonth

March's DSF member of the month is Theresa Seyram Agbenyegah! ⭐ Theresa is serving in the DSF Events Support Working Group. She is a great leader who has contributed to many PyCons 🤝 Learn more about Theresa here! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026... #django #DSFMemberOfTheMonth

🚀 Feature Friday: Template partials! New in Django 6.0, this extension to Django's template language makes it easy to reuse fragments in templates: Great for cutting down the overhead of creating files for small pieces of isolated logic! #Django #DjangoFeatureFriday

Introducing the 2026 DSF Board! We extend our gratitude to Thibaud Colas and Sarah Abderemane, who are completing their terms on the board. We welcome... www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

November's DSF member of the month is Akio Ogasahara, aka libratech! Akio is a technical writer, systems engineer, and long-time contributor to Django's Japanese translations. Learn more about Akio's unique background and path to #django here! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

Twenty years of #Django releases 🚀 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... Over those twenty years, - 447 Django releases shipped 🚢 - 131 security vulnerabilities addressed - 262,203 releases of Django-related packages in the #Python ecosystem

Today we’re at the first ever #DjangoDayIndia ✨🇮🇳✨ at Scaler School of Technology! It’s really special to be at the first edition of a new #Django event, and the crowd here is loving it 💚

Our Fundraising & Code of Conduct group member @priyapahwa.bsky.social recaps her learnings organizing @djangonaut.space ⭐️ strong facilitation techniques, and tough decisions on which emoji to use!

At #PyConFR - Céline Martinet Sanchez shares her findings after 3 years with #htmx in #Django ⭐️ The gist: it’s working out great, happy developers, a clear path towards writing tests

Your framework stays reliable thanks to thousands of volunteer hours — and they need your support. 💚 Join the annual Django Fundraiser by the DSF & JetBrains: Get 30% off PyCharm, and your purchase becomes a donation to Django! Only until November 11! jb.gg/gabec5

Thank you Bhuvnesh Sharma for representing our project at the #GSoC Mentor Summit! 2025 is our 20th year taking part in Google Summer of Code, this program has a tremendous impact on #Django and our community 💚

The Django Software Foundation Board nominations are underway! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... If you would like to learn more before to apply, @thibaudcolas.bsky.social and I are happy to answer your questions! 💚 Feel free to ask them below, and we will do our best to answer them 👇🏽 #django

🚨 Closing today! Last call for the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize nominations www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... If you haven't already, take the chance to show appreciation for a fellow Djangonaut! #Django

Ce que j'adore à Paris Web, c'est accessibilité et l'inclusivité de la conférence. Voir les orateurices traduites en LSF et vice versa, c'est génial! #staff #ParisWeb

August's DSF member of the month is Lilian! ⭐ Lilian participated in Djangonaut Space and quickly became an active DSF member 🚀 She is working to improve our contribution processes. Read the full interview 🗨️ www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... #django #DSFMemberOfTheMonth

C’est le dernier jour pour les vacances, mais c’est aussi le dernier jour de disponibilité du tarif réduit ! C’est vraiment maintenant ou jamais pour en profiter et s’inscrire à moindre frais : inscriptions.paris-web.fr

I finally took the time to write about DjangoCon Africa in my blog: sarahabd.com/blog/django... . Good memories and eager to return. As we often say, you come for the framework, you stay for the community 💚🧡 @djcafrica.bsky.social #django #djangoConAfrica

Very honored to have given this opening keynote at DjangoCon Africa 💚 Link of the slides: sarahabd.com/shades Still traveling but close to home! #djangoConAfrica #ubuConAfrica

Starting my journey to go back home, I enjoyed so much DjangoCon Africa and discover Tanzania with Django people 💚 I hope to come back for the next one and see some folks I met this week. Shout-out to the organizers and volunteers, Asante Sana for everything folks 🫶🏽

Panel on the future of Open Source in Africa, very important and informative topic. We need more support, volunteer and help people who create and volunteer for those initiatives. Community is not nothing without the community. #djangoConAfrica #ubuConAfrica

So glad to be able to see Tim giving his keynote in person at @djcafrica.bsky.social 💚 #DjangoConAfrica #UbuConAfrica

I didn't get my luggage when I arrived in Tanzania. It was still in Amsterdam. It was a mission to get my luggage, so many people helped me, I finally got my luggage today 🥳🥳 Thank you to everyone who helped me to get it back, Asante Sana! 💚 #DjangoConAfrica #MissionSuccess

✨The D-Day is HERE !!!✨ DjangoCon Africa & UbuCon Africa, the tech event of the year is officially underway. 🚀💚🧡💜 #djcafrica25 #UbuConAfrica #UbuCon #DjangoCon #DjangoConAfrica #DjangoConAfrica2025 #opensource

Finishing packing and almost ready to my trip 😁 🇹🇿 #djcafrica25 #UbuConAfrica #UbuCon #DjangoCon #DjangoConAfrica2025

Happy birthday @djangoproject.com ! 🥳 20 years, so many people involved to build, shape, promote, train others, share knowledge and build the future of this framework. Thank you all. If you like or use this framework, share the love and donate 💚 #django20 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

I'm honored and delighted to be a keynote speaker in DjangoCon Africa 💚 Good opportunity to celebrate the 20 years of Django in person! See you there? #djcAfrica #djcAfrica25 #ubuCon

✨🔥Exciting News!✨ Djangonauts, Canonicalers meet our first #KeynoteSpeaker Tim Schilling at #DjangoConAfrica2025.💚🎉This year #DjangoConAfrica and the very first #UbuConAfrica join forces for a unique experience. 👉Get your ticket: 2025.djangocon.africa/en/news/dja... #djcafrica #djcafrica25 #UbuCon

Meet our June Django Member of the Month, Elena Williams! 🌟 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... Elena is part of our Code of Conduct team and a dedicated #Django & #Python community builder, involved with #PyLadies, @pyconau.bsky.social, and @djangogirls.bsky.social 🩷

📣 The DSF is hiring a Django Fellow! A paid, full-time role to help maintain Django. All the good stuff plus you'll be joining a dedicated team of Fellows 💚 Interested or know someone great? 👉 Apply by July 1: www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... #Django #Python #OpenSource

Call for Review 🕵️ Pull request #18408 proposes async support for database connections and cursors — a huge leap for async support in Django! github.com/django/djan... We're looking for reviewers with strong knowledge of database and Django ORM. Help shape Django’s future! 💚

Django Software Foundation booth ✌🏻 #PyConUS @simonwillison.net @fwiles.bsky.social @djangoproject.com @pycon.us

Did you know? Today is the 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day 💙 accessibility.day #gaad #accessibility

The Django docs search results can now be filtered by category ✨ Nice little productivity boost! Quick little demo with prefetch_related, where the most relevant results are in API Reference and Using Django:

May's DSF member of the month is Simon Charette! Simon is a longstanding contributor to Django's core, especially in the ORM. He has authored more than 300 commits that made it into Django! 💡 Learn more about Simon here! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... #django #DSFMemberOfTheMonth

I just watched @eaboaf.bsky.social 's PyLadiesCon talk again to find a link I have seen during her presentation for my talk. It should be known by more people because this is a great resource to have a more inclusive and welcoming conference: contribute.cncf.io/accessibilit... #accessibility #a11y

I'm going back home, it was really nice to meet folks in real life and see familiar faces. I'm glad I took few extra days to visit Dublin and enjoy the time with my international friends from the conference 💖 Safe travels for the last ones! #djangoConEurope #djangoConEurope2025

Django for Beginners/APIs/Professionals leanpub.com/b/djangoforb... by William S. Vincent is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #Django #WebDevelopment #Python #Apis #books #ebooks

I'm tired but I had a lot of fun today, I hope MC Sarah was not too boring 🎤 Thank you again DjangoCon Europe for the organization and happy to have volunteered 💚 See you at the sprints for those who are still here! #djangoConEurope #djangoConEurope2025

DjangoCon Europe starts 🫶🏽 #djangoconeurope #djangoconeurope2025

Safe travels for folks who are going to Dublin! See you there 😁 #djangoConEurope

Did you know that the #Django admin can be themed?! 🤯 Here are 10 packages for the Django admin which can transform it with a Dracula theme, #Bootstrap #CSS, #Tailwind, and more! Jazz up your Django admin today! 🎷 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/...

Run your tests against Django's main! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... Django contributor @laymonage.bsky.social showcases a small testing technique that has the potential to catch bugs in future versions of the framework ahead of their release 🌟

April's DSF member of the month is Öykü Gümüş! Öykü is Django developer, a longstanding mentor for Django Girls, and has helped organize DjangoCons in Europe. Learn more about Öykü here! www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025... #django #DSFMemberOfTheMonth

We’re organizing an Annual Meeting of Members of the Django Software Foundation at DjangoCon Europe 2025 in two weeks. www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... We’d love to see you there!

GSoC 2025 proposal submissions open in 1 week! If you're preparing a proposal for Django, now’s the time to gear up. This is a great opportunity to work on real-world projects, collaborate with experts, and contribute to one of the most widely used web frameworks. #Django #GSoC