Django Steering Council Meetings - 2025

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:wave: Hi everyone!

The Steering Council has been meeting on a regular basis since the start of 2025. We’re working on finding the best ways to communicate what we’re focusing on and what we’re discussing in those meetings.

This thread will be updated when we post new meeting files to our GitHub repo. The agenda from the meeting will be posted here, but you’ll need to visit the GitHub repo to view the details. This allows us to maintain 90% of the content in a single place.

Past meetings:

  • 2025-01-06
    • Introductions
    • Discussion on consensus building
    • How are we going to communicate?
    • Where do we keep records?
    • How do votes work?
    • DEPs discussion
    • Online working group
    • Ways DSF can support Steering Council
    • Easy wins
  • 2025-01-13
    • Status update on blog post
    • What do we want to spend these meetings on?
    • Discussions publicity
    • Asking Polls for the Django community
    • Steering Council roadmap
    • Why are DEPs hard?
    • How can we make DEPs easier?
    • Communication around issues in general
    • Other logistical questions?
  • 2025-01-20
    • Communication/coordination with Fellows
    • GSoC (Google Summer of Code)
    • GitHub repo
    • GitHub project for tasks / priorities
    • Third party packages discussion
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  • 2025-01-27
    • GSoC
    • Communication with Fellows
    • Action items from Django Contributing processes overview and Q&A with Fellows
    • Third party package elevation (packages and other links)
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I posted a short entry about our first month as a new steering council. It gives a bit of context about this thread, so I’m linking it here too:

https://noumenal.es/posts/steering-council-first-month/Dk8/

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  • 2025-02-10
    • Approving public notes process
    • Fellows discussion
      • Moving new features out of Trac
      • Team charters to define expectations
      • Fellows office hours
      • Using Google Summer of Code to automate process work
    • GSoC update

Edit: Changed the link and date to reflect when we actually met and the updated notes doc in GitHub.

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  • 2025-02-17
    • GSoC Update
    • Teams to Working Groups
    • Third-party / community page
    • Meeting cadence
    • Contributor experience for new features

And I just realized I have the dates wrong on several of these. We’ve been meeting Mondays :face_exhaling:

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  • 2025-02-24
    • Contributor experience around new features
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  • 2025-03-03
    • Teams to Working Groups
    • Code of Conduct communication
    • Third party package / community site changes
    • Sovereign tech fund
    • New feature idea initial steps
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  • 2025-03-10
    • Sovereign Tech Fund
    • Past Steering Council meetings
    • Review draft forum/blog posts for personas and sovereign tech fund
    • Teams to working groups
    • Code of Conduct communication
    • New feature idea initial steps
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  • 2025-03-17
    • Third-party package / community page
    • Adam Hill blog post on admin themes
    • GSoC communications
    • New feature idea initial steps
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  • 2025-04-28 with Fellows
    • Lexi and Sovereign Tech
    • DjangoCon Europe recap
    • Goal setting for summer
    • Accessibility Team to WG transition
    • Google Summer of Code
    • 6.x Headline features
    • New feature repo follow-up tasks
    • Sponsor 1:1 time with SC
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