I think you might have got downvoted because your comment reads a bit like "I do I change Playdoh [into a completely different thing entirely]?"
I might be taken things wrong but I always take downvotes as a sign to keep my mouth shut the next time, especially when they don't explain themselves.
Your suggestion sounds like you think that Playdoh is a generic application template that just happens to use Django, that could be adapted, but that's not the case. At best, you'd be able to see the kind of things Playdoh configures (Security things like X-Frames and CSRF, integrating Persona-based logins, etc) and implement similar things with another environment and framework, but Playdoh is pretty much 99% Python/Django stuff that would need to be replaced.