DSF Vice President 2025
Hi there, it's been a while, as always :) I had a though end of the 2024 year and beginning of 2025 (family loss) so I didn't do my usual year in review unfortunately, but I took the time to write my recent update: I'm the new Vice President of the Django Software Foundation 🎉
This is such an honor to serve on the board of the Django Software Foundation, and it's even more the case as the Vice President. I'm particularly glad to have this role since it's a way to connect to our members and I already had lovely emails responses while onboarding new DSF members.
Vice President tasks
The Vice President handle everything related to requests of new DSF members. Currently you can apply for yourself or apply for someone else. After that, it's reviewed and voted by the board for approval or not.
If you planning to submit a DSF member, please add as many informations as you can, it's really helping us to know if the person meet the criterias to approuve the member.
My tasks are: - send emails to approved members - add them to the mailing list used for the voting for the future boards and steering council - add them to the private DSF member section in the forum - attribute them the DSF role - follow up for any specific inquiries related to current or onboarding members
Besides that, I'm also the fallback of the President. If Thibaud is sick or can't do something related to his role, I will be the one to fill up the place. No fear, right? 😛
As Thibaud was saying in his blog, there is some discovery to do to be able to fill the role as people and ourselves expected. I'm sure we will figure it out and document it 💪🏽 The President seems to be a role with many things to do and I will do my best to help him as much as I can.
My plans for 2025 and the future
I have been doing a lot of volunteering last year, one thing which is hard, is get a good balance to be able to do everything you wanted and take time for yourself. In function of your personality, it can be even harder to say no to a topic you care about just because you don't have enough time. That's why, my first plan is to improve processes and document things internally for the Vice President in case I decide to not continue to serve the board.
This year I would like to automate partially or completely the process of onboarding a new DSF member to have less time gap in terms of announcement of members approval and the time they are actually onboarded and added. This will be also a way to allow the Vice President to spend time on other things too.
I will continue my work related what I mentioned in my statement and will do my best to represent the Django Software Foundation and this nice framework and people behind it around the world 💚
I will see to achieve things I haven't done as many actions as I wanted (Accessibility, Django website etc.) and support other board members and any folks who are happy to step in, in the Django governance and Django work that fulfill the DSF's mission.