upgrade to django 1.8

[joshblum]

Seems like there are a host of security issues that have been fixed: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/releases/security/

could be worth it to spend some dev time on/ it could be a good project for a urop to get used to the codebase by searching for breaking changes to fix?

[joshblum]

also supported by more packages: https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar is only django >= 1.7

[joshblum]

needs an upgrade for tastypie as well https://github.com/django-tastypie/django-tastypie