Online Community Working Group Meeting Notes

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Online Community Working Group Kick off meeting - 30/04/25

Attendees:

• Andy Miller
• Natalia Bidart
• Dan Ryan
• Ben Cardy
• Patryk Bratkowski

Apologies

• Tom Carrick

Agenda

• Introductions (5 mins)
  • Pat (many places, current Estonia), Ryan (US), Natalia (UY), Ben (UK), Andy (UK)
  • Tom is the board liaison
• Code of Conduct liaison (5 mins)
  • Async comms
  • Lots of spam
  • Effort in rewriting/improving the current CoC
  • Natalia may switch from co-chair to this role
    • ACTION: get the PR up.
    • ACTION: Ben C to be co-chair.
• Reddit Moderators (2 mins)
  • Pat to dig around.
• Monthly meeting (5 mins)
  • Date & time
    • ACTION: Schedule it in - 7pm UTC Wednesday
    • Time Converter and World Clock - Conversion at a Glance - Pick best time to schedule conference calls, webinars, online meetings and phone calls.
    • Quorum
• Meta work (15 mins)
  • What:
    • Minutes
    • Reports
    • Tracking ideas and work
  • Where/How:

    • Github Orgs

      • Django
        • ACTION: Natalia to create Github Team/Repo/Project within the main Org.
      • Django-discord
        • Action: Transfer over tasks to the new project/repo.

    • Discord

    • Forum

• AOB
  • Discourse unformatted code detector - #4 by medmunds
  • Discourse: limit of admins?

[nanorepublica]

Online Community Working Group Meeting - 2025-07-30

Attendees:

• Andy Miller
• Natalia Bidart
• Dan Ryan

Apologies

• Ben Cardy
• Patryk Bratkowski
• Tom Carrick

Notes

• Idea’s Project in Github
  • Stages of a project and how an idea would progress between stages with approximate timings
    • Untriaged/Owner required/Ready to start/In progress/Needs Review or Board Approval/Completed/
      • Example: similar to New Features having multiple end point.
        • Also having a template (but this does not require a project).
  • Input’s we require for an idea
    • platform’s affected (Forum, Discord, Github, Reddit?)
    • Name of idea
    • description
    • Rationale
    • Problem this is solving or the gap that exists
    • would you like to be involved in this idea
    • other people that would like to be involved (github usernames).
    • other details
  • Reactions - copy new features
    • Add rocket ship for wanting to help out on that idea
  • README to explain it all
  • Blog post to announce it
  • Gather existing ideas first after the project is created
• Dan R shared updates from the CoC group - refreshed CoC is being worked on
  • Andy shared a link to CoC training: Code of Conduct Enforcement Training – Otter Tech
• Natalia proposed meeting more often and having a more European friendly timed second meeting slot
  • Andy suggested monthly and agreed with the European friendly time.

Action items

• AM to create issue template
• AM to create project to visualise process
• Copy new-features repo for inspiration of setup and workflows

[nanorepublica]

Online Community Working Group Meeting - 2025-08-28

Attendees:

• Ben Cardy
• Natalia Bidart
• Tom Carrick

Apologies

• Patryk Bratkowski
• Dan Ryan
• Andy Miller

Notes

• Discord:
  • Tom is admin, Natalia asked to have Jacob Walls to the Ops channel
• Inspiration for project board, see what the accessibility team does: django accessibility improvements · GitHub
  • title
  • assignee/status
  • priority
• Updates from Dan:
  • New (and last) warning sent to an individual
  • Two new members joining the CoC WG
  • Board approved consultant to update CoC text

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Online Community Working Group Meeting - 2025-10-23

Attendees:

• Andrew Miller
• Ben Cardy
• Natalia Bidart
• Tom Carrick
• Dan Ryan

Apologies:

• Pat

Agenda:

• Project Board launch
  • https://github.com/orgs/django/projects/26
  • Readme needs to be updated
    • https://github.com/django/online-community-working-group/blob/main/README.md
    • Needs to be updated to reflect what the repo and projects are about
    • Similar to what the SC New Features is
    • Natalia to update the README
  • Draft Blog post for djangoproject.com to announce it
    • Ben to write the blogpost announcement
    • New Features GitHub repo and project | Weblog | Django
    • Tom to do review, approval and publish
  • Make the project and/or repo public
    • Natalia to make the board and repo public
  • unified list of moderators per platform
    • [Natalia] THIS! Also some form of playbook or guide in how to moderate?
    • What limits exist on the platform
    • Discord - allow fellows access to moderation places
    • Mid-long term goal: Unification of roles across platforms
      • Fellows
      • Triage & Review Team
      • Security? (likely not)
      • Donors?
  • [Tom] discord ownership
    • Initially, Tom was the server owner
    • Now there is a magic user (possibly deleted?) that owns the server
    • https://github.com/django/online-community-working-group/issues/13
    • The highest role is superadmin
      • Tom
      • Deleteduser-somethingsomething
      • Florian
      • Markus
    • Tom to raise this in the next Board meeting
    • To be continued
  • [Tom] might be nice to understand what should go where as there is a lot of discord / slack overlap at the moment and questions around what’s best in what place
    • Slack (likely) for:
      • team-specific (private?) conversations
      • DSF-specific stuff
    • Slack: limited seats
      • Who can join and who can’t?
      • Does someone need to be there?
    • Discord:
      • lower entry barrier?
      • More about Django than the DSF
    • Current teams on Discord: Ops, Accessibility, some of the Website
    • Current teams on Slack: Fellows, CoC, Board, SC, CNA (security branch)
    • Perhaps
  • [Dan] Alt-right emojis (see reaction to Discord )
    • Andy to Restrict emojis (“Use External Emojis” permission on a role)
  • [Dan] Provided a report from CoC about current activities