Steering Council meeting, 31 Mar 2025 (with Fellows)

Members

Tim: Invite Fellows to meeting on monthly basis
Sarah: Document translations manager role
Emma: Preparing DjangoCon Europe talk on the new feature idea process early to present to the fellows.
Sarah and Natalia: discuss the “DEP? Contribution/ Can it be done” section and give feedback (Fellow weekly sync)
Sarah and Natalia: create a list of currently active features we want the SC to look at

Accessibility team WG PR: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/pull/34
Created PR to create team template for WG and remove requirement of board liaison https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/pull/36
Fellows needs:
1. How to contact
2. Is there a person in charge/ designated contact?
3. What are they doing? Particularly anything not documented.
4. What are the expectations for them?
  - Need to be careful about being too aggressive here
  - Could experiment with active and inactive membership
  - Could make it easy to rejoin
  - Could have time frames and regular times for people to step on and off, like a year commitment
  - Need succession planning for key volunteers

The question “Can we do this?” feels like the DEP process
Want to have a POC of this for DjangoCon Europe
Clarification on the role of the Forum and GitHub with the process
- Some discussions will definitely start on the Forum
- Doesn’t want to overwhelm the Forum
- Moderation will need to be via a bot to make it anonymous
Discussion around currrent new ideas
- CSP
- Django Tasks
- Composite primary keys iterative work
- GSoC projects

Brief discussion about past and upcoming discussions with Lexi.
Everyone’s current understanding is that the money would go through Lexi’s company.
They have been successful in applying before.
DSF or other companies could apply as well