Paolo Melchiorre has been a member of the @Python community since 2006, also of the @Django community since 2012, and a DSF Member since 2020. Over the last 5 years, Paolo has presented nearly 40 Django talks at various @DjangoCon, @PyCon, and community conferences both online and in person. He also has been an active contributor to the djangoproject.com website since 2017.

Paolo is an organizer and coach of @DjangoGirls workshops, an active member of the Italian Django community, and a translator of the Django documentation into Italian. He also writes about Open Source; articles and guides related to Django and Python on his personal blog; attends and organizes sprints on Django, and has been actively involved in answering Django questions on StackOverflow since 2015. He is a volunteer at Python and Django conferences and co-organizer of PyCon Italy.

He is the winner of the 2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded by the Django Software Foundation Board which he uses to continue contributing to Django code directly or as a speaker and advocate.

Active since 2019 on Mastodon and in general in the Fediverse and promoter of the ActivityPub protocol and the decentralization of social networks.