DSF Board member todos
Here are all of the tasks I’ve been doing as a member of the Django Software Foundation board, in reverse chronological order. For broad responsibilities, see DSF Board Secretary role.
In progress
- Join Django Code of Conduct team
- (Update membership records in charter, website, code of conduct repo)
- djangoproject.com: Update fundraising counter footnote to explain running total and goal #1466
Backlog
- Board vote: (TBC put forward by me, Çağıl, Sarah) Initial Website working group proposal #10
- djangoproject.com: Styleguide page for content formatting options #1463
- djangoproject.com: Help text for foundation Meeting model fields #1464
- djangoproject.com: Foundation model changes for meeting minutes #1465
- Onboarding: process for Board Elections and Steering Council Elections
- Read Steerling Council elections documentation
- Create or read similar page for Board Elections
- Determine dates for next Steerling Council elections and document (6.x)
- Determine dates for next Board Elections and document (2024?)
- Publish “How Steering Council Elections work”, with CTA for individual membership
- Publish “How Board Elections work”, with CTA for individual membership
- Get Secretary-level access to rankedvote.co
- Call to nominate members before elections
- Process: Publish DSF bylaws in HTML
- Locate two sets of edits that haven’t been reflected yet.
- Convert to HTML
- Add on djangoproject.com website
January 2024, week 4
- ✅ DSF Social Media Working Group: first meeting
January 2024, week 3
- ✅ Board liaison support for social media working group
- ✅ Investigate Django Software Foundation on LinkedIn
- DSF account managed by the DSF President, no social media. TBC whether Social Media WG uses this, or sets up separate account, or we use individual accounts
- ✅ First review: Initial Website working group proposal #10
- ✅ Next batch of onboarding questions
January 2024, week 2
- ✅ Onboarding: announce / introductions for new board members
- Hasn’t happened for past elections.
- Forum: DSF Board 2024 Elections - New board members 👋
- Blog: DSF Board 2024 Elections - New board members 👋
- ✅ Onboarding: review last 6 months’ meeting notes
- Noted no meeting in August 2023
- ✅ Board meeting: 2024-01-11
- ✅ Process: document steps to publish meeting minutes
- ✅ Onboarding: review membership survey
- (DSF members only) Survey announcement
- Lots of interesting results, TBC whether shared publicly or not
- ✅ Process: document “first meeting” as part of onboarding
- Officer elections + statements in particular
January 2024, week 1
- ✅ Process: How to set up up meeting minutes for upcoming meetings
- Ask about Assistant to the Treasurer involvement: none
- Check agenda sharing etiquette: in board Slack channel
- Identify where agendas are in Google Drive: 2023 agendas located, 2019-2022 missing, 2015-2018 located
- ✅ Process: what is
secretary@alias for- Apparently unused
- ✅ Onboarding: Twitter / social media access
- Twitter: @djangoproject
- Mastodon: @django@fosstodon.org
- Guideline: We try not to oversaturate or give too much favoritism on social media, but we definitely want to increase our social media presence
- ✅ Process: Set up January 2024 meeting notes doc
- First draft
- Review from Katie
- Move to single doc for all 2024 meetings
December 2023
- ✅ Attend the first board meeting / last meeting of the previous board - 2023-12-14
- Officer elections: try President (failed)
- Elected as: Secretary
- ✅ Handover meeting with previous secretary, Katie
- Create a new wiki page with notes, django-team-wiki: DSF-Board-Secretary-role
- ✅ Process: identify current “Secretary role definition” documents
- There are none