DSF Board monthly meeting, February 8, 2024
The meeting was led by Chaim Kirby.
Board members in attendance were:
- Thibaud Colas
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Chaim Kirby
- Cagil Ulusahin Sonmez
- Kátia Nakamura
- Katie McLaughlin
- Sarah Abderemane
Also in attendance were:
- Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)
Finances
Balance
USD $243,588.88
Grants approved
- Django Girls Cagayan de Oro: USD $500.00
- Django Girls Ho: USD $500.00
- PyCon Namibia: USD $1,150.00
Individual members approved
- Daniel Moran
- Bojan Mihelač
- Selcuk Ayguney
- Mohamed ElKalioby
- Rob Hudson
Ongoing business
Board Liaison required for the Fellowship Working Group
- JKM has started a conversation including the fellows.
- Jacob intends to be the liaison in the short term.
- For Fellowship WG: currently all members are past board members.
- Current group’s focus: hiring fellows when needed.
- Reflecting more generally on the effectiveness of the working group process as-is in freeing the board to be more strategic.
- Chaim currently involved as Board Liaison
- Plan to write the charter and re-vote on it, like other working groups
dsf-members on the Django Forum
More work to be done with forum admins – see last meeting’s notes.
European Organizers Support Working Group
- Post CfP for DjangoCon Europe 2025 with link to contract
- DjangoCon Europe interval for next year due to other constraints: Jan 1st, mid April (!)
- Considering different processes in the future – rolling proposals, expressions of interest, documented open period before switching to rolling proposals
New business
axe-selenium-python transfer to django GitHub organization
- Accessibility team will offer to maintain the package outside of Django organization
djangoproject.com User Research Report from 20tab – next steps
View the report: djangoproject.com User Research Report (PDF).
- Back to the DSF to decide which of the recommendations are most promising
- Put the list of ideas publicly to solicit community contributions
- Draft of a website roadmap
Informal roadmap idea: DSF board office hours
View the forum thread: Informal roadmap & retrospective workshops for Django.
- Anyone on the board can do this! :)
- Kátia, Chaim, Jacob, Çağıl, Thibaud up for it
- TBC exactly what the format is and how the time will be used
Action items
- Çağıl Uluşahin Sonmez: Further discussion with Andrew G about setting up a private DSF Members forum
- Çağıl Uluşahin Sonmez & Chaim Kirby: Figure out DjangoCon Europe Working Group role and responsibilities, update working group definition in GitHub based on that discussion
- 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: Reply to Anna M. about bulk nomination over dsf-board email
- Thibaud Colas: Raise DCEU WG + info session on social media, directly, Discord
