DSF Board monthly meeting, March 14, 2024
The meeting was led by Katie McLaughlin.
Board members in attendance were:
- Thibaud Colas
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Cagil Ulusahin Sonmez
- Katie McLaughlin
Also in attendance were:
- Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)
Finances
Balance
USD $249,542.00
Grants approved
- Django Girls Eket: USD $500.00
- Django Girls Maputo: USD $500.00
Individual members approved
- Steve Yonkeu
- Che Neba Manka'a
- Leo Youmbi
- Ndongmo Christian
- Edmond Makolle
- Manka Velda Manjong
- Lukong Leinyuy Etiane
- Dejon Fah Joël Xavier
- Ngala Olga Ncheh
- Hawawou Oumarou
- Marijke Luttekes
- Josh Schneier
- Eliana Rosselli
- Damilola Oladele
- Lajoie Batadiwa
- Uffa Modey
- Helen Bire
- Jacqueline Mushi
- CatherineRose Barretto
- Emmanuel Evance
- Lupyana Mbembati
- Gloria Kemirembe
- Nancy Hiza
- Neema Mfuru
- Thecla James
- Khairiya Mudrik
- Doreen Wanyama
- John Marit
- Adum Abraham
- Idai Sosima
- Raila Akur
- Jake Howard
- Saptak Sengupta
- Marcelo Elizeche Landó
- Lilian
- Abigail Afi Gbadago
- Tushar Gupta
Corporate members approved
- HackSoft
Ongoing business
Board Liaison required for the Fellowship Working Group
- Plan to write the charter and re-vote on it, like other working groups
- Current progress: Re-chartering the Fellowship-WG #15
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 (!!)
- Considering different processes in the future – rolling proposals, expressions of interest, documented open period before switching to rolling proposals
New business
Google Season of Docs
To take part in Google Season of Docs – discussion of the logistics (Fellow involvement needed or not, interest from board members, payment platform).
Package ecosystem & DSF
Possibility of a packages working group, based on current maintenance concerns in the Django ecosystem:
Recognizing the importance of DRF to the Django community, and of packages generally – the maintenance work of adopting more packages would stretch DSF resources. Discussion to be had with DSF Fellows & Steering Council.
Django’s official packages process: DEP 7 (covered projects: channels). The DEP does not define whether Fellows work on package maintenance / who does – it defines projects come with a maintenance team. It would be worth comparing with how the PSF does this.
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: Raise DCEU WG + info session on social media, directly, Discord
- Thibaud Colas: Get back to Portfolio Workshop request with support from social media WG
- Thibaud Colas: Schedule an info session for DCEU 2025 CFP (closes April 15)
- Thibaud Colas: Organize discussion about package maintenance w/ Fellows & Steering Council
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Update DEP-007 for freshness, listing package catalog, group name changes.
