If you love Django, live in Austin, and want to be a hacker/journalist, there will probably be a job open for you soon at The Texas Tribune. You'll get a chance to fix everything you hate about how news is done on the web, and do all sorts of nifty things with government data, like these:

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-prisons/

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/red-light-cameras/

nbabalola@texastribune.org