DSF Board monthly meeting, May 16, 2024
The meeting was led by Chaim Kirby.
Board members in attendance were:
- Thibaud Colas
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Chaim Kirby
- Cagil Ulusahin Sonmez
- Katie McLaughlin
- Sarah Abderemane
Also in attendance were:
- Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)
Finances
Balance
USD $239,194.00
Grants approved
- Django Girls Antananarivo: USD $500.00
- Django Girls Matola: USD $500.00
- Django Girls @ PyCon Nigeria: USD $700.00
Ongoing business
DjangoCon Europe 2025 - applications vetting & selection
- Vetting from all board members reviewing all proposals
- Provisionally planning to have a short meeting on 5th or 6th June
dsf-members on the Django Forum
Close to completion, more work to be done with forum admins – see last meeting’s notes. Keeping the mailing list for now, foreseeing it being useful for elections.
New business
Django Developer Survey
- 2023 results have been published, and posted on socials 🎉
- 2024 survey scheduled to be run, analysed, and published in this calendar year (to ensure that the annual survey is released in the same calendar year for clarity of information)
- Consequence: 8-9 months time frame for 2024
Vote: Django News partnership
- Propose that the DSF buy 10 “slots” for $1600 (time frame TBC), distribute them: 2/yr for Platinum, 1/yr for Gold
- We can easily buy more “slots” later
- Eventually sponsorship WG will own this, JKM own it for now
- Involvement of social media WG to cover relevant DSF news
- Passed unanimously
Vote: Fellowship Working Group
- JKM will be interim chair, will lead selection of members and then likely hand off chair, remain Liaison
- Discussion on the process of initiating the membership vs. the charter, whether approval of a group is dependent on membership being defined or not
- Katie will be the second member for now, with the expectation that the full WG membership will be established within the next month.
- Passed unanimously
Action items
- 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: Update DEP-007 for freshness, listing package catalog, group name changes.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Update sponsorship prospective with new points above (not django-news yet, the rest)
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Get back to <sponsor prospect>
