Dear Community The secretariat is pleased to inform you that the *DjangoCo Africa **Conference *will be taking place in Zanzibar this November from *6th - 11th November 2023* with the local host being* PyCon Tanzania [ *https://pycon.or.tz/* ]* in collaboration with the *State University of Zanzibar* (*SUZA*) [ https://www.suza.ac.tz/ ]. As you all know, last year's event was a success to the extent that we are now hosting the Inaugural DjangoCon Conference for Python Web Developers. *Spoiler Alert...* Django is the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines :-) Therefore, to this end, DjangoCon Africa *djangocon.africa <http://djangocon.africa/>* aims to bring together *Software and Web Developers* from Tanzania, Africa and across the World. This event is at the back of our collective mission of building an inclusive and diverse software and web developers community and engineering human capital for Tanzania and ofcourse Africa at large. Many companies today are pivoting towards web applications, AI, automation, cyber security, IoT, data science and continuous software development and the Python Language and Django Web Framework have become popular programming tools used for innovation across different verticals from Telecom to ISP, Education, Govt, Health, Finance to name but a few. *In a nutshell....* - The* DjangoGirls* Hands-on Technical Workshops [ https://djangogirls.org/en/zanzibar/ ] are scheduled from *3rd and 4th November 2023* - The main *DjangoCon* Conference [ https://2023.djangocon.africa/speakers/ ] plenary sessions are scheduled from *6th - 11th November 2023* - *Travelers information can be found here; * https://2023.djangocon.africa/travellers/ If you have yet to grab your ticket, please do so by visiting the ticket page here; https://2023.djangocon.africa/get-ticket/ Better Late than Never .... #TIA .... See you all soon :-) .... Kazi Iendelee, Noah Convener - *PyCon Tanzania* Program Committee Member - *DjangoCon Africa*