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 particular in the **Python** community as well.

In this talk we will see together the way I found for anyone to take full **advantage** of an Open Source software while **contributing** to its success and that of its **community**.

I'll share a lot of **examples** from my personal participation in the the Python and **Django** community.