About me

Will Vincent is a former Board Member of the Django Software Foundation and the author of three books on Django. He co-hosts the Django Chat podcast, co-writes the weekly Django News newsletter, and runs LearnDjango.com. He has also built popular third-party packages, spoken at multiple DjangoCon conferences, and taught computer science at Williams College.

Details

Email: [email protected] - my preferred contact method. Please be aware that I receive a lot of emails so if your query is not specific to one of my books or tutorials, I can’t guarantee a response. If you have general questions on Django I recommend the Official Django Forum.
GitHub: @wsvincent
Mastodon: @[email protected]

Books

Django Chat Podcast

A regular podcast on Django co-hosted with Django Fellow Carlton Gibson featuring interviews with leading members of the community.

Django News is weekly newsletter that reaches several thousand Django developers co-written with Jeff Triplett that features news, articles, events, projects, podcasts, and more all focused on Django.

Selected Projects

Awesome Django - curated list of awesome Django resources
DjangoX - starter framework for new Django projects
DRFX - starter framework for new Django REST Framework projects

Talks

Django APIs and React - Django Boston (May 2018)
8 Reasons Why Learning Django is Hard - Django Boston (January 2019)

Podcast Guest Appearances

Test and Code - Testing Django Web Applications (April 2023)
Python Bytes - From Prototype to Production in Django (October 2020)
Profitable Python - Professional Developer Resources for Django (December 2019)
Frontmatter - Self-Publishing and Changes in the Book Industry (July 2019)
Talk Python - Teaching Django (December 2018)
Podcast.__init__ - The Business Of Technical Authoring (September 2018)