Announcements on Django Commons

Thank you, Storm

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One of the things we say a lot at Django Commons is that sustainability has to include the people, not just the packages. It’s easy to say. It’s harder to mean it when someone who has carried real weight decides it’s time to step back. Storm Heg is stepping down from the admin team, and just like we did when Lacey stepped away, we want to send him off the right way: with gratitude, and without any suggestion that leaving is a failure.

Thank you Lacey

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Django Commons has some very lofty goals for open source. One of our goals is Sustainability. While this can mean many things for the Django Commons organization, it means:

The community seeks to make contributing to open source and the community itself a sustainable activity. This involves clear expectations on roles, being supportive of taking breaks and creating space for others. Our processes and code should be documented, be maintainable and easily searchable.

Please welcome our new admins

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello Django community!

Django Commons has some exciting news. Our team has grown to eight members. Please help us in welcoming our new admins: Brian Kohan, Daksh P. Jain, and Tilda Udufo!

Brian Kohan

Brian is a software engineer with 19 years of experience in the aerospace sector. He’s been squashing web-shaped problems with Django for the last 9 of those years and is the maintainer of 5 open source Django packages. He lives in Los Angeles with his family where he devotes the balance of his time to organizing his community’s response to homelessness.

We're recruiting new admins!

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Django Commons admin team is recruiting new members. If you’re interested in being an admin of Django Commons, please fill out this Admin Interest Form by March 16th, 2026 AOE.

What does the admin team do?

The admin team takes care of the administrative work of managing Django Commons and supporting its projects and members. This includes things like:

Membership responsibilities: approving new members in GitHub and assigning them to the right teams, handling PyPI access, and checking in with project teams
Project maintenance: Onboarding incoming repos and reviewing them for readiness, configuring settings and actions in GitHub, more PyPI actions
Community management: answering questions in online spaces, responding to requests, outreach
Website maintenance: adding new projects to the website, adding and maintaining information
Administrative and funding tasks: governance decisions and docs, Terraform tooling, manage contributions on Thanks.dev and Open Collective, branding updates