#europython

#europython

Martin has been part of the Europython Conferences volunteers since 2017. Some have "met" him the first time in a response on an issue sent to the helpdesk or during the organisation meetings of the ops team.Others interacted with him as a volunteer at reception, out in the halls, a tutor in a Humble Data tutorial, a session chair, or room manager in a tutorial or talk.

This year was extra special: Django turned 20 years old! The milestone was marked in style, starting on Wednesday evening at Pyvo, the local Python community meetup in Prague, where we celebrated with a cake. On Friday, the celebration continued with an open-space gathering at the conference - and, of course, another cake 🎂. For people who missed this, there are other local Django birthday events running through the rest of 2025!

The EuroPython tradition of post-conference sprints came alive once again in Prague, bringing together open-source maintainers, newcomers, and curious contributors for two days of coding, learning, and collaboration. And the results? Across all projects, over 81 pull requests were merged during the weekend 🎉. That's dozens of fixes, improvements, and first-time contributions landing directly into Python's ecosystem in just two days.