Django Projects as Desktop applications : how to?

You might want to look into Appcelerator's (link) Titanium Desktop for developing web apps on the desktop.

It's fully cross platform, Linux, Mac OSX, Windows.

It's supports running Python, Ruby, and JavaScript code in your application all concurrently interacting with one anther in one application. It's pretty sweet.

This project started when I needed to distribute a self contained user installable Windows demo of a Django application

dbuilder.py

Edit: Another alternative is Super Zippy, it takes a Python package and its pure Python dependencies and transforms them all into a single executable file.