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Panel Discussion: Two Decades of Django: The Past, Present and Future with Velda Kiara
Published October 23, 2025
From Kenya to London - Velda Kiara
This video features Velda Kiara at DjangoChat 2026 .
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Published February 21, 2026
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Velda is a software engineer at RevSys based in London and an extremely active member of the Python and Django communities. She is a PSF Fellow, former Djangonaut, co-maintainer of django-debug-toolbar, regular conference speaker, and Microsoft MVP.
🔗 Links
- Velda at RevSys: https://www.revsys.com/about/bio/velda-kiara
- Velda’s Substack: The Storyteller's Byte Tales: https://veldakiara.substack.com/
- Velda on GitHub: https://github.com/VeldaKiara
- Optimal Performance Over Basic as a Perfectionist with Deadlines: https://youtu.be/dvxzJDk6x9Q?si=Qa7rKnDFFvOBHDrq
- More about me: https://veldakiara.notion.site/Velda-Kiara-46aec24028fd4e8dbdba003097c18b5b
- Neapolitan: https://github.com/carltongibson/neapolitan
📦 Projects
- django-linkcheck: https://github.com/DjangoAdminHackers/django-linkcheck
- adamghill/django-lsp: https://github.com/adamghill/django-lsp
- django-debug-toolbar: https://github.com/django-commons/django-debug-toolbar
📚 Books
- A History of the Bible by John Barton: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317975/a-history-of-the-bible-by-john-barton/
- Python Mastery, a course from David Beazley: https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery
- Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner
🎥 YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@djangochat
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