Steering Council meeting, 3 Mar 2025
Members
- Carlton Gibson
- Emmanuelle Delescolle
- Lily Foote
- Tim Schilling
Other attendees
- Catherine Holmes
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Agenda
- Teams to Working Groups
- Code of Conduct communication
- Third party package / community site changes
- Sovereign tech fund
- New feature idea initial steps
Action items
- Lily: Draft blog post for applying for sovereign tech fund as call for community involvement
- Emma: Respond to Lexi expressing our interest
- Jacob: Fix Carlton’s permissions on djangoproject.com
- Emma: Edit the GSoC wiki after checking with others
- In the future:
- Lily: Forum post with persona types
- Survey to collect the people who match those types
Teams to Working Groups
No update
Code of Conduct communication
Waiting on Code of Conduct Working Group to meet and discuss any needs with the Steering Council.
Third party package / community site changes
- Branch set up
- Investigating design
Sovereign tech fund
- Should this be a board, or a steering council duty?
- Consensus on Steering Council should lead this for now
- Do we have anything that would be fundable?
- Potentially there could be multiple projects that qualify
- Perhaps mulit-factor authentication
- Not everything has to be completely figured out before the grant is applied for
- Need to poll the community
- What would make the Fellows’ live easier?
- There are things that could be modernized without overly interfering with user experience
- Splitting repos without it interfering with users
- Potentially include a code audit
- Open questions:
- How can funds be sent?
- Directly to the person or to the DSF
- The tech fund may prefer it to be sent directly to the person if they’re in Europe
- Can we fund a DEP?
- It has to be 200 days worth of work, so yes, but it also involves the implementation
- How can funds be sent?
- Next steps
- Talk to the community and make a blog post
New feature idea initial steps
- Personas collection and next steps
- How to collect personas we’ve missed?
- After gathering the personas we will want to understand how their needs are met:
- Maybe a video call or two to discuss
- Maybe a targeted forum post
- Maybe ask them to share privately via a form or survey
- How do we find people who are not in our communication circles?
- Next steps:
- Posting on the forum to see if the personas make sense
- Allow people to identify others
- Follow-up with those who respond for a more detailed discussion
- Document for review on initial feature ideas