Description
The year was 2018. I was studying computer science at the University of Indonesia. I learned Django as part of a web programming course. At the time, Django felt just like any other framework out there – it's part of the tech stack that you use.
A year later, I tried my luck with Django in [Google Summer of Code](https://g.co/gsoc). I took a deep dive into Django's codebase to implement the cross-database JSONField. The feature managed to make it in Django 3.1.
Fast forward to now, I've got a job in the UK to work on the Django-powered Wagtail CMS. Since then, I've had the opportunity to give talks at conferences in Europe and the US, including this one.
This is a story of how Django changed ~~my life~~ people's lives – and how you played a part in it.
In this talk, we'll go through: - How Django can be used to teach web programming - Django's participation in Google Summer of Code - The awesome Django community and what it means for us - What we can do to make Django change the lives of even more people