About
DEFNA is a California-based nonprofit established in 2015 at the request of the Django Software Foundation. Our primary mandate is to organise DjangoCon US — the annual conference for the North American Django community — and to support Django education and outreach events across the continent.
We believe that a healthy open-source community depends on accessible, welcoming events. Through DjangoCon US, community grants, and sponsored events, DEFNA works to lower the barriers to participation for developers of all backgrounds.
DEFNA is governed by a volunteer board of nine members who bring diverse expertise spanning engineering, design, community organising, and open-source advocacy.
The Team
Nine volunteers who keep DEFNA running — bringing expertise in engineering, design, open-source advocacy, and community organising.
Peter is a Django developer and co-founder of Two Rock Software, a North Carolina based software development company specializing in business workflow automation. He also enjoys solving devops puzzles. When he’s not working he loves exploring new foods, gardening, and movement practices like martial arts, aerial dance, and contact improv.
Emeritus
Honoring those who went above and beyond in their service to DEFNA and the Django community.
Full stack developer who loves code but loves developers even more. Almost everything I know about Django and OS I’ve learned from selfless people willing to share so I try to follow their lead and give back as much as I can.
Alumni
We are grateful to everyone who has served DEFNA.
Monique started using Django as a developer for the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a developer for ApplyTexas (also in Austin). She has too many hobbies to list, but is a linguist and passionate foreign language enthusiast, karaoker, aspiring comic artist, and avid reader of any and all things words.