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Django Software Foundation

Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

Django is a high-level Python Web framework originally developed at the Lawrence-Journal World. Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.

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Project ideas

7 ideas on its 2026 ideas page.

How can I improve my chances of being accepted?
Experimental feature flags and processes
Add types to parts of Django
Add ergonomic control over behaviour of missing variables in templates
Switch to Playwright tests for integration testing
Add support for generateseries in postgres
Or Create Your Own

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 11 years. Projects per year: '16: 1, '17: 0, '18: 0, '19: 2, '20: 2, '21: 4, '22: 2, '23: 1, '24: 4, '25: 3, '26: 4.

On GitHub

23 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (11), HTML (2), CSS (1), Makefile (1), Shell (1).

Links and channels

Website: https://www.djangoproject.com
Ideas page: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2026
Contributor guide: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2026
Source code: https://github.com/django/django
Mailing list: https://forum.djangoproject.com/c/internals/mentorship/10

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "Django Software Foundation" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Django Software Foundation"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Django Software Foundation"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Django Software Foundation repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.