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Thibaud Colas, he/him�Developer

(my) State of Wagtail

Wagtail Space US 2022, Cleveland

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Thibaud Colas, he/him�Developer

(my) State of Wagtail

Wagtail Space US 2022, Cleveland

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Gazing at the stars

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Big name users

  • NHS
  • Google
  • NASA
  • Mozilla
  • UK & US govt

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Big name users (in 2019)

  • NHS
  • Google
  • NASA
  • Mozilla
  • UK & US govt

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Big name users (in 2022 as well!)

  • NHS
  • Google
  • NASA (hi JPL team! )
  • Mozilla
  • UK & US govt

All an active part of our Wagtail community, not just using the end product.

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Active community

  • Green (top line): weekly active on Slack
  • Blue (bottom line): weekly posted on Slack
  • Latest entry: 306 weekly active, 3779 members in total

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Why those projects

  • Django: it’s Django
  • Strapi: most popular open source headless CMS
  • Ghost: popular open source CMS
  • django-rest-framework: popular Django package
    • Why isn’t Wagtail as popular as django-rest-framework?
  • Saleor: similar "built upon Django" project (e-commerce)

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Missing from this chart

  • Well-established open source projects like Wordpress, Drupal
  • Proprietary options. Craft CMS, Contentful, Sanity.io, Adobe AEM
    • Bootstrapped, or funded by VC (Strapi: $4M seed, $10M series A)
    • Some with free tiers, some with Enterprise™ licensing

> We want to be competitive compared to projects with 10x, 100x more investment.

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Our place in the Django universe

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We’re here! (6%)

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Wagtail could be useful for more Django developers

  • A more opinionated baseline
  • Powerful administration features
  • Good accessibility
  • Good multilingual support

And a vibrant community of CMS experts!

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Our place in open source

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Purposeful Open Source

> This report was originally commissioned by Mozilla for internal purposes. Mozilla wanted a shared framework for discussing its options in running open source projects, and requested a survey and comparative analysis of open source project archetypes

Read on: What’s Your Open Source Strategy? Here Are 10 Answers…

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The Wagtail project is not apolitical

Wagtail the PyPI project is Free and open-source software (FOSS). Wagtail the community is whatever it wants to be.

�Wagtail Features aren’t apolitical:

  • Accessibility
  • Multilingual support

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The Wagtail community stands with the people of Ukraine.

We are united against war.

We call for peace and an end to the invasion of Ukraine.

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Google Summer of Code 2022

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> Empowering and enabling young underrepresented people of colour to pursue a career in tech by providing them with a safe space for them to learn, explore and grow

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Coders of Colour projects: examples

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97.4%

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of the world’s top 1’000’000 homepages have basic* accessibility issues.��According to the WebAIM Million analysis

*basic issue = WCAG 2.0 AA failure

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97.4%

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of the world’s top 1’000’000 homepages have basic* accessibility issues.��According to the WebAIM Million analysis

*basic issue = WCAG 2.0 AA failure

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99.3%

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of studied MWW homepages�have basic* accessibility issues.��According to my analysis

*basic issue = WCAG 2.0 AA failure

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Accessibility of Wagtail sites

41.2 issues per homepage on average Sites with 0 issues detected:

Methodology:

  • Studying 468 homepages of sites on Made with Wagtail, not the Majestic Million.
  • With Axe and Pa11y, unlike the WebAIM Million study

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Ways to get involved

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Ways to get involved

Give a lightning talk today or tomorrow!

Join Google Summer of Code 2022 as a contributor or mentor

Mentor with Coders of Colour

Join our accessibility team

Provide feedback for the Page editor 2022 project

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Thank you!

Let’s work on this together!

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