The wait is almost over(that’s if you’re reading this before Aug 11th, 2025).

This is the second DjangoCon Africa I will be attending, the first one was a few years ago, and I wrote about it here:

https://me.chrisdevcode.com/posts/djangocon-africa-2023-a-year-later/

A lot has happened ever since, got to learn about stuff(LOL) about how Django and the DSF. I cannot wait for this year’s edition.

You can also checkout the official DjangoCon Africa 2023 report: https://2023.djangocon.africa/news/report/

DjangoCon Africa, 2025

For this year, “DjangoCon Africa + UbuCon Africa 2025 in Arusha, Tanzania! Let’s celebrate open-source, community, and innovation together”. FYI I have no idea what this means, but I know it’s probably a really nice thing, I will let me know …

django con africa image banner

Anyways, I have two main expectations: people i’d love to meet and the sessions i’d love to attend.

Humans/Speakers I wanna meet

Pretty much everybody, but that is impossible. So here’s just a few, from the speaker’s list:

  1. Sarah Abderemane - I would love to congratulate and appreciate the amazing work she does at the DSF
  2. Kudzayi Bamhare - We met during the 2023 DjangoCon, and he was building something that does stuff with Basketball data, I would love to see how that went.
  3. Sheena - A good teacher, I would say. I also wanna learn how she sets up her development environment for Django and more.
  4. Daniele Procida - I wanna know more on good documentation skills and stuff, maybe time to shoot my shot for the next technical role, you never know …
  5. Tim Schilling - I know he knows many things on Django, DSF and the Steering Council, I wanna pick his brain for good reasons.
  6. Thibaud Colas - Same as Tim, picking his brain for a good course, definately.
  7. Erick Ouma - A good friend, who we met during the 2023 DjangoCon, I wanna see if he some sense of humor now, ooh and he is well equipped, technically speaking.

Sessions I would love to be part of

All the sessions are amazing, and I will make an effort to be sitted on time, with a fully charged Mac so I can take notes and tweet about the conference.

  1. 50 shades of green - One contribution to the Django world by Sarah
  2. Not everything deserves a video call or a slack message: The reality of working with distributed teams by Paul
  3. Modern frontend development the simple way by Sheena
  4. Ubuntu for Developers by Robert
  5. The Cost of Community: What it takes to Build Something That Lasts by Lidya
  6. Success in software as a pan-African project by Daniele
  7. DevOps Pipeline for Django Applications by Rasheed
  8. Scaling Django Projects with Chaos by Lokko
  9. Enhancing Data Literacy and Model Explainability through Bayesian Statistics in Django by Kai(my good friend)
  10. How I set Ubuntu up for software development by Sheena
  11. Contributing to the Django Community by Tim
  12. From Einstein to monkeys: learnings for successful leaders. by Sebastian
  13. The future of Django by Thibaud
  14. The hidden cost of bad UX: How design impacts performance by Keren

Sprints I would love to be part of

These are technical sessions.

  1. Getting started with MicroCeph: I have no idea what MicroCeph is, but it does sound great.
  2. A Novel Way of Creating Multi-Tenant Apps using Django… No Third Party Packages Apply!: If I grab these concepts from the sprint, i will be unstoppable
  3. Become an engineering quality driver
  4. Open Documentation Academy: Your first contribution to open source
  5. Let’s Level Up This Django App!: I know I need to
  6. Postman + Django: Your Perfect “Combi” for API Testing and Security: I also know i need to …

Now We Wait

yeap, we wait for the event to start.

for those travelling to Arusha, have a safe {insert: mode of transport}!