My first DSF board meeting
The meeting was a special one, as it included the outgoing board members (Chaim Kirby, Çağıl Uluşahin Sonmez, Katie McLaughlin, Kátia Nakamura), the incumbent board members (Thibaud Colas, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Sarah Abderemane), Catherine Holmes (Assistant Treasurer), and of course the newly elected board members (Tom Carrick, Abigail Afi Gbadago, Jeff Triplett, Paolo Melchiorre).
It was wonderful to see so many people passionate about Django and its community at a meeting, even more beautiful for me the fact that I already know each of them, some more than others, and have met them all in person at least once, at some conference.
I firmly believe that Django is made up of every single member of its community who every day contributes in a thousand different ways to its progress and its diffusion. The beauty of the Django Software Foundation board is that it is composed exclusively of these members of the community who have always participated in person and who then decided to get involved further and dedicate even more of their time and resources to always give a new push to the community.
I saw the emotion of the outgoing members of the board for the fact of participating in their last meeting and also the enthusiasm of the newly elected, most of whom, including me, were participating for the first time in this type of meeting. I think that maintaining this continuous flow of new people in the DSF board is vital to have, on the one hand, always new forces and ideas, and, on the other, to not ask too much of individuals and avoid burning out.© 2024 Paolo Melchiorre CC BY -SA “Group photo with (from top left to bottom right) Çağıl Uluşahin Sonmez, Chaim Kirby, Kátia Nakamura, Katie McLaughlin, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Sarah Abderemane, Thibaud Colas, Catherine Holmes, Tom Carrick, Paolo Melchiorre, Abigail Afi Gbadago, Jeff Triplett.”
