Setting Up Wagtail as a GSoC 2026 Applicant — From Zero to Dev Environment

Setting Up Wagtail as a GSoC 2026 Applicant — From Zero to Dev Environment Who am I My name is Abhishek Bijjargi and I am a first year B.Tech Computer Science student at COEPTech University, Pune, India. I am applying for Google Summer of Code 2026 with Wagtail and this post documents my complete journey of setting up the Wagtail development environment from scratch on Windows — including every challenge I hit and how I solved it. Why Wagtail Wagtail is one of the most widely used open source CMS platforms built on top of Django and Python. As someone who has built full stack projects using Django — including CyberVision, a cybersecurity scanning platform — Wagtail felt like a natural fit for GSoC 2026. The community is welcoming, the codebase is mature and well structured, and the project ideas are genuinely impactful. Part 1 — Completing the Django Tutorial Before touching Wagtail, I completed the official Django 6.0 tutorial which is a mandatory requirement for Wagtail GSoC applican