Paolo Melchiorre

My DjangoCon US 2026 experience in Chicago, captured through Mastodon posts about talks, my UUID talk, Django community activities, people, and moments along the way.

DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America.

My EuroPython 2026 experience in Krakow, captured through Mastodon posts about talks, community, people, and moments along the way.

An Event for Postgres (pronounced /Pō-zet/, and formerly called Citus Con) is a free and virtual developer event.

A timeline of my PyCon Italia 2026 journey, in Bologna (IT), told through the Mastodon posts I shared along the way.

PyCon Italia is the national conference where professionals, researchers and enthusiasts of the most beautiful programming language gather together.

Howto guide for upgrading PostgreSQL from version 17 to 18 on Ubuntu, after its upgrade from version 25.10 (Questing Quokka) to 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon).

A timeline of my PyCon US 2026 journey, in Long Beach (US), told through the Mastodon posts I shared along the way.

PyCon US is the largest and longest-running annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.

We meet monthly to discuss Django, Python, the web, and related topics.

A timeline of my DjangoCon Europe 2026 journey, from Lecce to Bari and then Athens, told through the Mastodon posts I shared along the way.

DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in Europe.

GDG Lecce is a Salento-based community that connects local developers with industry experts and neighboring tech groups, fostering a collaborative network to bridge the gap between regional talent and professional excellence.

A practical step-by-step guide to using Django ORM in standalone mode to connect to and query an existing database using inspectdb.

A personal retrospective on Python Pescara in 2025: events, people, and moments that shaped a growing local community, reflecting on continuity, experimentation, and how a small group connected to the wider Python ecosystem.

A personal retrospective on Django On The Med, three months later.

Learn how to use UUIDv7 today with stable releases of Python 3.14, Django 5.2 and PostgreSQL 18.

The second-ever Django Girls workshop in Pescara, organised by the Python Pescara community and hosted inside DevFest Pescara 2025 by GDG Pescara.

How-to guide for installing PostgreSQL version 18 on Ubuntu, after a fresh installation of version 25.10 (Questing Quokka).

A podcast on the Django Web Framework by William Vincent and Carlton Gibson.

A summary of my experience at Django On The Med 2025 told through the posts I published on Mastodon during the conference.

Comparing the Django ORM support across official database backends, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way.

A summary of my experience at DjangoCon US 2025 told through the posts I published on Mastodon during the conference.

DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America.

Five busy days in Prague, captured live through my Mastodon posts at EuroPython 2025.

EuroPython is the official European conference for the Python programming language.

A personal look at PyCon Italia 2025, told from multiple perspectives: organizer, volunteer, speaker, and participant.

PyCon Italia is the national conference where professionals, researchers and enthusiasts of the most beautiful programming language gather together.

A summary of my experience at DjangoCon Europe 2025 told through the posts I published on Mastodon during the conference.

Howto guide for upgrading PostgreSQL from version 16 to 17 on Ubuntu, after its upgrade from version 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) to 25.04 (Plucky Puffin).

DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in Europe.

A quick-start guide to create a web map with images, using the Python-based Django web framework, leveraging its GeoDjango module, and Pillow, the Python imaging library, to extract GPS information from images.

A quick review of my 2024 done in a hurry, trying to remember the many experiences I had, the people I met, the places I visited and the changes I went through.

Thoughts and insights aboutr my first meeting as a Django Software Foundation board member.

My thoughts on my election as a member of the Django Software Foundation (DSF) board of directors.

My self-nomination statement for the 2025 Django Software Foundation (DSF) board of directors elections

Local group of developers dedicated to Python in Marche and surrounding areas.

DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America.

After 8 years of work and professional and personal growth I left 20tab with a lot of gratitude and a bit of nostalgia.

The Python Software Foundation made me a PSF fellow member, along with Adam Johnson.

EuroPython is the official European conference for the Python programming language.

The story of my experience in writing the preface of the book “Django By Example” by Antonio Melé.

An Event for Postgres (pronounced /Pō-zet/, and formerly called Citus Con) is a free and virtual developer event.

DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in Europe.

PyCon Italia is the national conference where professionals, researchers and enthusiasts of the most beautiful programming language gather together.

Howto guide for upgrading PostgreSQL from version 15 to 16 on Ubuntu, after its upgrade from version 23.10 to 24.04 (Noble Numbat).

PyCon US is the largest and longest-running annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.

Local group of developers dedicated to Python in Pescara and surrounding areas.

Episode 155 of Pybites podcast with the title “Django, Open Source & Pycon Conferences, Paolo Melchiorre’s Developer Odyssey”

My ideas for the informal Django roadmap session for 2024, proposed by the new DSF board member, Thibaud Colas.