# DjangoCon US 2024 Topics Inspiration List Published March 3, 2024 New Features and Future Outlook * New Django features * New Python features of interest to Django devs * Django Roadmap and Workshop conversation (see [Tim Schilling's Roadmap Ideas](https://www.better-simple.com/django/2024/01/25/informal-django-roadmap/), [Paolo's Roadmap Ideas](https://www.paulox.net/2024/01/19/my-django-roadmap-ideas/), and Thibaud's call for an [Informal Roadmap and Retrospective Workshop](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/informal-roadmap-retrospective-workshops-for-django/26835 )) * Web development framework retrospective/landscape Django Core * Learning more about our new fellow :) * Contributing to Django * Update on [Accessibility Team work](https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/feb/10/django-accessibility-in-2023-and-beyond/) Django Software Foundation * Update on new [workgroups structure](https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups) and progress * Update on [definition of DSF membership](https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/jan/10/dsf-membership/) Diversity * Where we stand in bringing more diversity to: our steering council, core dev, contributor base, community * Update on Djangonaut Space * New initiatives: [Hidden Figures of Python Podcast](https://pypodcats.live/) (women make up "only 17% of invited guests among the popular podcast series") Python Packaging and Open Source * New developments in Python/Django packaging landscape, including [uv package manager](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) How to Raise Your Game * Lesser known, but highly useful Django features * Practical Django profiling, optimization * Security (OWASP 10 and Django, how Django does security) * Testing (pytest, Playwright, Selenium, etc).  * Type hinting * Patterns and architectures * Practical async (going beyond the docs and a few tutorials to using day to day) New-ish or Experimental Technologies * React/HTMX debate (see Chris May's great talk last year about using [HTMX, Alpine.js, and Streaming HTML](https://youtu.be/kYV8K71pY64?si=JQLO3HGPo87Sef41) and the work to be done) * Using JavaScript and Django together: Alpine, Svelte, etc.  * Tailwind * WASM * PyScript * Co-Pilot, ChatGPT, etc. for Django devs  * What tools I haven't heard about, but would want to know about Alternative Django Use Cases * Orchestration/workflows * Multi-tenancy Database * Database/Django performance tuning at scale * Database tradeoffs: Postgres, CockroachDB, SQL, etc. * Datasette Opinionated Django * Django deployment options and tradeoffs in 2024 * Different ways of doing things in Django and when to use which option * The best tools/packages to have in your Django toolbox in 2024 * Favorite workflows, Git, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, local/prod, developer experience tools, etc.  API * Django Ninja compared to Django Rest Framework * Fast API How to Use/Better Popular CMS * Wagtail * Butter CMS Learning * Flexing your problem solving chops * Recursion (looking at you, [Al Sweigart](https://nostarch.com/recursive-book-recursion)) * Great learning resources and the people who created them * Strategies for effective learning Novel Uses for Django * Experimental apps * Prototyping with Django for fun and profit * Historically relevant apps * Your interesting Django story/adventure * Lessons from managing/scaling Django in a unique or difficult way in your company * Using Django for social good Team, Leadership, Building * Product management (features, prioritization, OKRs, teamwork, etc.) * Lessons from software engineering management * Interesting mental models, productivity methods, learning approaches, the counter-intuitive Python/Django and Open Source * Adventures in open source Django development * How to get started with open source, Django open source, packaging