Django Weblog: DSF member of the month - Ken Whitesell

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For September 2026, we welcome Ken Whitesell as our DSF member of the month!

⭐ Ken has long been part of the Django community, serving for many years as an helper in the Django forum and recipient of the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial award.

You can learn more about Ken by visiting Ken's blog and his GitHub Profile.

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For September 2026, we welcome Ken Whitesell as our DSF member of the month! ⭐ Ken has long been part of the Django community, serving for many years as an helper in the Django forum and recipient of the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial award. You can learn more about Ken by visiting Ken's blog and his GitHub Profile.

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After 45 years working in software development, I'm now free to spend my time working on what interests me.
(You could say that what used to be my hobby is now my profession.) I'm currently living in the mountains about 60 miles south-east of Pittsburgh.
Boardgaming has been a serious hobby for me for more than 50 years now, and has been one of the driving forces in my personal development as a programmer.
I enjoy looking at the probabilities and patterns that may exist in particular games.
To a lesser extent, I'm starting to develop an interest in using AI to create computer opponents.

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(I guess I would say that I really wasn't ready for it on a number of different levels.) About nine months later, I enlisted in the US Air Force.

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He has been a volunteer for DjangoCon US for over ten years. Let's spend some time getting to know Ken better! I've been retired for a little more than a year now.

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