Happy 20th Birthday, Django

We had an in-person event in Lawrence, Kansas ten years ago for Django's 10th birthday. The videos of the talks from that event are here: https://pyvideo.org/events/django-birthday.html

I celebrated the 20th birthday yesterday by writing up an annotated transcript of my talk from the 10th - it tells Django's origin story: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/13/django-birthday/

I am from the area so was at that event. I still have my bamboo badge.

The Documentation as Empathy talk is one that I still think of often. It was fun to hang out with those guys after too. Lovely folk.

Thanks for mentioning this talk, very nice to see it laid out.