Announcing the Django Software Foundation

It seemed only fitting to give the scoop to the Lawrence Journal-World:

Django, started nearly five years ago by programmers affiliated with The World Company, now joins a lineup of pervasive computer languages and systems — including Mozilla, Apache and Linux — to be overseen by a nonprofit organization.

We're still breaking this baby in, so we're a little light on details for now. You can read a bit about our goals now, and as you can imagine we'll be talking a lot about this in the days and weeks to come.

Suffice to say that we're amazingly excited about the opportunities this next step brings. When we started thinking about releasing Django (three years ago!) we never expected this level of success.

We certainly couldn't have gotten here without the amazing support and contributions from our community of users and developers. To everyone who's used or contributed to Django: thanks!

Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on June 17, 2008

Comments

simono June 17, 2008 at 10:30 a.m.

congrats!!

Abraham Estrada June 17, 2008 at 10:34 a.m.

wow, great news.

Rami Kayyali June 17, 2008 at 11:01 a.m.

This sounds great. A non-profit organization will "officialize" Django and should keep things on track. Plus, BSD+NPO is one hell of a combination to push Django into corporates.

Ahik June 17, 2008 at 3:44 p.m.

Grate news for you, for us and for the computer world.
Congratulations with the hope that the foundation can take Django to the next level.

Petar June 17, 2008 at 5:28 p.m.

Great! And thanks again for making building website's even more fun.

Bryan Veloso June 17, 2008 at 6 p.m.

Holy crap! Congrats! :D First the roadmap and now this! Is it bad to be so giddy?

Rob W. June 17, 2008 at 6:11 p.m.

Mozilla, Apache, and Linux... What, no mention of the Python Software Foundation? :-)

With this and the near-1.0 announcement, it seems Django is going to have a big year in 2008.

Carlitos June 18, 2008 at 2:33 a.m.

What can I say, folks, but CONGRATULATIONS!

Seems like it was the right decision for me to start trying out Django back in mid-2006, even though I was a complete Python newbie! :-)

May the good times roll!

KN Gowda June 18, 2008 at 2:29 p.m.

This is great! In my mother tongue ುರೆ ಕಾಳಗ ನಿಪ

simonli June 18, 2008 at 11:34 p.m.

It is great~~

Eric June 19, 2008 at 6:11 a.m.

hey that's great!
i have been using django for almost 1 year
and i can't wait to see 1.0 releases

Simon June 20, 2008 at 6:37 a.m.

Awesome, congrats guys. Love Django ^_^.

deserat June 20, 2008 at 12:04 p.m.

most excellent

Peter Bassel June 20, 2008 at 12:56 p.m.

Hi,

I'm an enthusiastic beneficiary of Django. I have a developer writing a front and back office database and admin system for an insurance brokerage and insurance company. I feel I, like most other beneficiaries, should be giving back to the project itself. As a result, I would like to suggest a 2% voluntary "royalty fee" based on the fees developers charge their clients payable back to the core project. In that way Jacob can bring in other core developers to help move Django forward and broaden it out even faster. I have see this before with other Linux Distros i.e. Centos.

This does not cost developers anything and it the cost is very small for clients. Certainly a lot less than having to by non open source platforms.

Look forward to the views of others.

Regards

Peter

barbuza June 21, 2008 at 10:55 a.m.

that's great. we r proud to use django, thanx you.

Jason June 21, 2008 at 11:13 p.m.

Congratulations!

Samori Gorse June 22, 2008 at 5:21 p.m.

Grats!

Robin Jakobsson June 26, 2008 at 2:14 a.m.

Congratulations!

Milan Andric June 30, 2008 at 4:02 p.m.

Hrm, a voluntary 2% royalty fee could be a great idea. Just tack on 2% to any django project you do and send that to the foundation. Now to be fair, you would need to also keep in mind linux, debian, apache, mysql, python ... ;) Or maybe this is Reaganomics and trickle down actually exists?

George July 1, 2008 at 3:50 p.m.

Hey,

I just recently got started with Django (coming from Rails), and I am loving it! Thanks for all of your hard work. And by the way, I appreciate the lengths at which you guys have gone to improve performance--it really does show!

Glance July 2, 2008 at 10:51 a.m.

0.96.2.tar.gz doesn't work under windows.
when i try to install it using:
setup.py install

I have try to change setup.py as below:

package = dirpath[len_root_dir:].lstrip('\\').replace('\\', '.')

the original code is '/' that only applies to linux platform.

Dayo Osikoya July 2, 2008 at 11:04 a.m.

Congratulations!!

Rey Bumalay July 3, 2008 at 2:41 p.m.

i started studying python about 2 days ago and I'm already amazed by its capabilities. I'm trying django while reading a python basics book and already enjoying developing applications. Django truely helps people develop application faster!

With the combination of google app engine & python plus framework such as django, anybody can simply start developing application without having to worry about finances

Romualdo Dasig July 8, 2008 at 8:58 a.m.