# Django Steering Council Meetings - 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Django Internals\ **Created:** [January 13, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916 "2026-01-13T12:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/1 "2026-01-13T12:48:06Z")
Continued from [2025 thread](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2025/38306/22) - [2026-01-05](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-01-05-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Revisit meeting times - DEP 17 Content Negotiation - New Trac triage state - Annual Release Cycle DEP - Steering Council Eligibility - CLA for Django - Consensus on 6.0 Community Blog Post - 6.1 new features status - Merging external packages docs pages - Django Tasks ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/2 "2026-02-02T13:33:41Z")
- [2026-01-19](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-01-19-steering-council.md) - New features review ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/3 "2026-02-13T18:57:32Z")
- [2026-02-02](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-02-02-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Action items review - FOSDEM - GSoC Projects - Fellow Topics - Monitoring PRs for “DEP Needed” - [Backward compatibility for admin template block composition](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36887#comment:2) - Can we advance [django-async-backend for ASGI only](https://github.com/django/new-features/issues/7#issuecomment-3824612657) right now? - New features review ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/4 "2026-02-25T14:29:25Z")
- [2026-02-16](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-02-16-steering-council.md) - Action items review - django-tasks future - Adding formatter for CSS & JS - Types in Django - Liaison Discussion ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/5 "2026-03-06T18:44:20Z")
- [2026-03-02](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-03-02-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Liaison roles - DSF and Oracle - Security team policy changes - Supporting email submissions - Switching to GHSA, Curl is [reverting back to HackerOne](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/25/curl-security-moves-again/) - DEPs - Support for Common Table Expressions - Dictionary-based EMAIL\_PROVIDERS ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/6 "2026-03-19T20:32:12Z")
- [2026-03-16](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-03-16-steering-council.md) - DEPs - DSF & Oracle - Adding [django-manifeststaticfiles-enhanced](https://github.com/blighj/django-manifeststaticfiles-enhanced) to ecosystem page - New features review ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/7 "2026-04-15T11:32:05Z")
- [2026-04-06](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-04-06-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - CSP support for Media asset objects and CSP support in the admin’s script tags - `EMAIL_PROVIDERS` DEP - Request for a “noop” attribute on `get_user()` - Annual release DEP - New features process ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/8 "2026-06-05T14:47:26Z")
- [2026-04-20](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-04-20-steering-council.md) - Action items review - New features - Djangonaut Space review - Performance Working Group - [2026-05-04](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-05-04-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Logical properties and values in CSS - Accessibility team leeway on code improvements - DEP 20: Annual Release Process ([link](https://github.com/django/deps/pull/109)) - DEP 19: New technical governance ([link](https://github.com/django/deps/pull/107)) - DEP 18: Email providers ([link](https://github.com/django/deps/pull/105)) - Google Summer of Code - [2026-06-01](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-06-01-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Action items review - DEP 18 approval - Fellows: - AI slop way down after GSoC application season - Discussion about PR quality bot auto-close behavior - DEP for table-valued expressions (GSoC) - Async model instantiation (because setting a GFK touches the db) - Moving models between apps ([PR](https://github.com/django/django/pull/16905)) - Oracle test pilot ([forum](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/proposal-leverage-oracle-test-pilot-for-django-ci/45197)) - Redistributing licenses when ingesting community packages - Advertising on [djangoproject.com](http://djangoproject.com) - PyCon US recap ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/9 "2026-06-15T18:13:28Z")
- [2026-06-15](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-06-15-steering-council.md) - Triptych Project - Technical governance doc open questions - New features repo ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/11 "2026-07-09T12:26:00Z")
- [2026-07-06](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-07-06-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Experimental Flags GSoC Project - Action Items Review - DEP 19 approval - Fellows: - DEP for table-valued expressions - Sphinx theme for the local django docs build - Oracle Test Pilot discussion recap ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/12 "2026-08-13T16:45:14Z")
- [2026-08-03](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-08-03-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Action Item Review - DEP 19 membership vote - DEP 20 Annual Release Cycle - What to do about “Django Core Developer” - DjangoCon US goals - Fellows: - DEP 19 and enabling mergers to merge - Does anything in the DEP need implementation/docs? - Naming check on RAISE fetch mode: [https://github.com/django/django/pull/21696](https://github.com/django/django/pull/21696) - FYI: DEP: table expressions in ORM: [https://github.com/django/deps/pull/113](https://github.com/django/deps/pull/113) ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/13 "2026-09-08T19:50:55Z")
- [2026-09-07](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-09-07-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - DjangoCon US New Features discussion - Using extras to package other tools - [Experimental features GSoC Project](https://github.com/django/new-features/issues/3#issuecomment-5464308812) - Fellows topics - Ping: [CompositeField DEP](https://github.com/django/deps/pull/113) - Status of [Content Type Parsing DEP](https://github.com/django/deps/pull/88) - Case study blog posts - Django usage telemetry/metrics ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/14 "2026-09-30T15:34:30Z")
- [2026-09-21](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-09-21-steering-council.md) - Review content for quarterly contributor outreach ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/15 "2026-10-14T21:25:09Z")
- [2026-10-05](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-10-05-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Fellows: - [Set returning DEP](https://github.com/django/deps/pull/113/) really needs reviews - All memcached python clients are defunct - PyPy 8.0 support? - Python 3.15 support and makedirs semantics - [https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/proposal-make-file-upload-permissions-respect-umask/45022/](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/proposal-make-file-upload-permissions-respect-umask/45022/) - Sovereign Tech Fund resilience program - Contributor outreach message ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/16 "2026-10-20T14:56:47Z")
- [2026-10-19](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-10-19-steering-council.md) - Quarterly outreach message - Sovereign Tech Agency Resilience Fund - VectorField DEP - Memcached clients - Jazzband updates - Triage and Review Team suggestions ---
**Author:** ![CodenameTim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/codenametim/32/31507_2.png) [@CodenameTim](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/CodenameTim)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-steering-council-meetings-2026/43916/17 "2026-11-03T18:35:08Z")
- [2026-11-02](https://github.com/django/steering-council/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-11-02-steering-council-with-fellows.md) - Fellows - sqlparse announcement - DEP exposure via Forum threads - GSoC Ideas - Remaining SC Goals/Focuses Meeting notes are also available at courtesy of @nanorepublica and the Online Community WG: [Steering Council Meeting Minutes | Django Steering Council Meeting Minutes](https://django.github.io/steering-council/). We’re smoothing out the notes publishing process yet, so I’ll continue to post here on the Forum. Though if you want an RSS feed, you can use the site.