Reflecting on the year on the last day of 2024.

On attending Django Day Copenhagen (Django CPH 2024) and PyCon NL.

Django 5.1 was released this week, and it's a special release for me because it contains my first contributions to the framework.

Time flies, and suddenly, Djangonaut Space's second session in 2024 is on. The session two crew mixes old and new folks, and I am also back on board.

What would open-source software (OSS) contributors have known before they started? I asked and got lots of answers.

You know I mean business when the article title contains an exclamation mark. And what a business; I have been approved as a member of the Django Software Foundation. Obligatory rocket: 🚀