Navigating Django's Future: Djangonaut Space
summary
A pilot mentorship program creates an 8-week cohort model with Navigators and Captains, runs on Discord, and pairs weekly check-ins with biweekly catch-ups; it produces 25 weekly check-ins, 16 one-on-ones, and 154 review comments and yields a handful of merged PRs (four in the pilot) while 80% report increased comfort contributing to Django; the concrete deliverable is a repeatable pipeline for onboarding contributors plus a Django 5.0 testathon and an open application (deadline Nov 15).
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Djangonaut Space intro
- 1:06Speakers' backgrounds
- 3:32Personal Django journeys
- 8:49Sponsorship & inclusion
- 15:34Djangonaut Space birth
- 18:44Pilot program results
- 21:57Core values
- 29:15Program structure
- 33:30Become Djangonaut/mentor
- 36:20Next steps
- 38:08Q&A
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