Coming to #PyCon US? We're going to be there! Core team members @vossisboss and Scott Cranfill will be teaching a workshop on May 15 about making websites more accessible. There will be a poster from @vincesalvino and @thibaudcolas too. Come check it out!
We're working on organizing a Wagtail Open Space as well, so stay tuned here for the location and time! We'll let you know as soon as we sign up for a space.
It's Earth Day! 🌍 With all that's going on in the world, it can feel hard to focus on sustainability. Yet there are plenty of small steps we can take. Here are some ideas for things you can start today to make your coding and web publishing practices more earth-friendly.
The Wagtail 6.1 release candidate is now available! Use pip install wagtail==6.1rc1 or your favorite dependency manager to add it to your project and let us know if it breaks anything. The more bugs we squash before the official release in May, the better!
A couple years back, I wanted to make a list of the works by the #SeizBreur artistic movement (the "Breton art-déco")
I couldn't do this on #WikimediaCommons/#Wikidata of course, as most of the works are still under copyright, so I tried to make it with #Notion and while it works and looks nice, it needs some tedious repeated work, and has a lot of limitations in terms of what I can do with the data.
It clearly won't be the tool I need, as it is not at all image-oriented, but it will be useful to clean the data before I make a proper tool (probably using #Django / #WagtailCMS)
For my #magic ( #conjuring ) hobby, I catalog videos that make up online courses (most only one video, some multiple) by writing a “timeline” for each, signposting for people where to find particular items in each video. This is currently just written up in Apple Pages, exported as a PDF and shared by Dropbox link. I started a website a while ago using @django to make it more accessible and searchable but never really came up with a completely satisfactory data structure (see pic)
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers that could help me out? Happy to share the link to the existing site and a couple of example PDFs if it’s interesting to anyone. #django#wagtail#wagtailCMS#python#WebDev#WebDevelopment
But I think that #wagtailcms is the most popular one of the three. I really like the wagtail admin which got even better over the course of version 4 and 5. And since my main goal for using a cms in https://github.com/ephes/django-cast was to make it possible to edit content for non-technical people, I chose wagtail.
The #Django jobs boards (djangogigs.com etc) seem to have turned into ghost towns the past year: just one job recently posted across those boards the past month, a non-remote, low-salary job in Germany.
Where are the good Django jobs to be found these days?
Maybe a better way to think about release notes is that they should read (and be written) like blog entries - each one is a chance to both update the users on the latest news about the project and promote that project to people who haven't discovered it yet