Paolo Melchiorre

GeneratedField brings database-generated columns to Django, but when should you use it? This talk explains GeneratedField by example, with practical patterns, trade-offs, and an overview of how it evolved from Django 5.0 to 6.0 for real production use.

AI tools are increasingly used by contributors to read code , explore codebases, and generate changes. Across many open source projects, this is already affecting how issues are opened and pull requests are submitted.

A semantic search on a website is the best way to make its content easily accessible to users because it interprets the meaning of words and is in fact increasingly used with the growth of AI technologies.

Keeping in mind the Pythonic principle that *“simple is better than complex”,* we’ll see how to implement a *semantic search* in a web service using only an Open-Source AI stack based on *Python*, *Django*, *PostgreSQL*, *PGvector*, *Sentence Transformers*.

On PyCon Italia 2025’s first day, explore the Django world with DSF, Djangonaut Space, and Django Girls! Talks, Q&A, and community stories await you. Ready to contribute? Spots are limited—don’t miss out!

Dalle spiagge di Catania ai vicoli di Milano, le community locali italiane fanno crescere Python con eventi, talk e networking... sempre con un buon piatto di pasta! Vuoi scoprire come unirti alla festa? Vieni al panel e lasciati ispirare!

Python is an increasingly used language and the number of potential contributors is growing increasingly. Newcomers to the community have a lot of documentation to guide them to transform from mere users to contributors.

Nel panel "Advent of Python", esploreremo l'emozionante "Advent of Code", un'avventura annuale di programmazione che unisce sfide di programmazione e spirito festivo. Discuteremo cos'è l'Advent of Code, perché è così appassionante e condivideremo esperienze personali e lezioni apprese,...

There are many ways to contribute to Python, and in this talk, newcomers to the community will discover new ways to get involved in the Python community, and community members will get ideas for getting new people involved.

Tenendo a mente il principio **Pythonico** che "semplice è meglio che complesso" vedremo come creare una **mappa** web con **Django**, il framework web basato su **Python**, utilizzando il suo modulo **GeoDjango**, memorizzando i dati geografici nel database locale su cui eseguire query geospaziali.

A full-text search on a website is the best way to make its contents easily accessible to users because it returns better results and is in fact used in online search engines or social networks .

Keeping in mind the Pythonic principle that “simple is better than complex” we'll see how to create a web map with the Python based web framework Django using its GeoDjango module, storing geographic data in your local database on which to run geospatial queries.

Keeping in mind the Pythonic principle that “simple is better than complex” we'll see how to create a web map with the Python based web framework Django using its GeoDjango module, storing geographic data in your local database on which to run geospatial queries.

**Django** per se is a _database-agnostic_ web framework, but _real-world projects_ based on it are not. **PostgreSQL** has the _richest feature set_ of any supported databases and we'll see how to use these **superpowers** in _Django_.

Taking full advantage of **Open Source** software means getting involved in its **community** and **contributing** to its development. We will see how this is profoundly true in the **Django** case as well.

🐍 "Make the most of Django" 👉 Taking full advantage of OpenSource software means getting involved in its community and contributing to its development. We'll see how this is profoundly true in the Django case as well.

Every time we’re going to create a new project with Django we make assessments on its requirements to choose the best architecture, of which, the database is usually the core.

A full-text search on a website is the best way to make its contents easily accessible to users because it returns better results and is in fact used in online search engines or social networks.