I don't use django, but one of the easiest ways to get designers and non technical folks working directly on projects is to run virtual machines with vagrant[0] and automate everything as much as possible.
Doing the first 2 lessons will not only get your a vagrant powered VM up and running, it will also give you a good feel for normal use. And you'll also be learning Django.
well, it's mainly geared towards PHP but you might find https://puphpet.com/ useful to get a reasonably sane vagrant/puppet installation which you can then customize for django or whatever. You could just remove the php specific stuff from the generated configurations if you don't want it
[0] http://vagrantup.com/