On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django. Twenty years and 400+ releases later, here we are – Happy 20th birthday Django! 🎉
Join the celebrations
We want to share this special occasion with you all! Our new 20-years of Django website showcases all online and local events happening around the world, through all of 2025. As well as other opportunities to celebrate!
- Expect birthday cake 🎂 and singing Happy Birthday
- A special quiz or two? see who knows all about Django trivia
- Showcase of great community achievements
View our 20th birthday website
Support Django
As a birthday gift of sorts, consider whether you or your employer can support the project via donations to our non-profit Django Software Foundation. For this special event, we want to set a special goal!
Over the next 20 days, we want to see 200 new donors, supporting Django with $20 or more, with at least 20 monthly donors. Help us making this happen:
- Donate on the Django website
- Donate on GitHub sponsors
- Or check out how to become a Corporate Member
Once you’ve done it, post with #DjangoBirthday and tag us on Mastodon / on Bluesky / on X / on LinkedIn so we can say thank you!
Of our US $300,000.00 goal for 2025, as of July 13th, 2025, we are at:
- 25.6% funded
- $76,707 donated
The next 20 years
20 years is a long time in open source – and we want to keep Django thriving for many more, so it keeps on being the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines as the industry evolves. We don’t know how the web will change it that time, but from Django, you can expect:
- Many new releases, each with years of support
- Thousands more packages in our thriving ecosystem
- An inclusive and supportive community with hundreds of thousands of developers
Happy 20th birthday, Django!