DSF Board monthly meeting, April 11, 2024
The meeting was led by Chaim Kirby.
Board members in attendance were:
- Thibaud Colas
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Chaim Kirby
- Kátia Nakamura
- Sarah Abderemane
Also in attendance were:
- Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)
Finances
Balance
USD $239,287.00
Grants approved
- Django Girls Lagos: USD $500.00
Individual members approved
- Ben Cardy
Ongoing business
Board Liaison required for the Fellowship Working Group
- New proposed charter: Re-chartering the Fellowship-WG #15, likely ready for review for the next board meeting.
- An important next step is to identify the appropriate board liaison & line manager for Fellows
dsf-members on the Django Forum
More work to be done with forum admins – see last meeting’s notes.
European Organizers Support WC
- Post CfP for DjangoCon Europe 2025 with link to contract
- DjangoCon Europe interval for next year due to other constraints: Jan 1st, mid April (!!)
- We’ve received no expressions of interest yet, and are wondering how best to encourage applications, or whether to skip 2025 and focus on 2026.
New business
Django News partnership
Rough proposal: DSF funds a yearly “slot” (price TBD, but a few thousand probably). Use about half for sponsor promotions, in line with the above content. Use the other half for DSF stuff: voting, call for board/WG membership, Malcolm award, thanks to outgoing Fellows, Fellow highlights, etc etc etc
Board feedback:
- Need to more carefully separate out ads from DSF content
- The board is interested in this concept, there’ll be another more fleshed-out proposal based on further discussions with Django News maintainers
Sponsorship packages
Social media schedule proposal:
- 4x annual for Platinum
- 2x annual for Gold
- No more than 1/mo
Weblog promotions:
- 1/year individual thanks for Platinum, on renewing
- 1/year gold member bulk thanks
- 1/year silver membership bulk thanks
Weblog promotions and social media communications have happened ad-hoc so far, this is formalizing what would happen for future sponsors
Action items
- Çağıl Uluşahin Sonmez: Further discussion with Andrew G about setting up a private DSF Members forum
- Çağıl Uluşahin Sonmez: Update WG charter for European Organiser Support
- Thibaud Colas: Update the Fundraising website page to have wording about what the goal and running total represent, and which donations are visible there
- Thibaud Colas: Raise DCEU WG + info session on social media, directly, Discord
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Update DEP-007 for freshness, listing package catalog, group name changes.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Ask in Slack about Fellowship liason
- Thibaud Colas: Put out another call for proposals for organizers of DjangoCon Europe 2025
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Update sponsorship prospective with new points above (not django-news yet, the rest)
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Get back to <sponsor prospect>
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Follow up with django-news
- Chaim Kirby: Fellow sponsorship proposal
