👋 fill this form if you’re interested in being a candidate for the upcoming Steering Council Elections, or to get feedback on your eligibility as a Steering Council candidate. All submissions to this form are kept private.
- All fields are optional, if you provide your email only, we’ll reach out closer to the elections to let you know how to proceed.
- Provide additional details if you want an assessment of your eligibility as a candidate, ahead of the actual elections.
- You can also fill this form as if it was the actual candidate registration form, and we’ll reach out to you to confirm your interest closer to the elections.
## Eligibility
Candidate requirements can be viewed here:
DEP 12 Steering Council Eligibility.
Fill this expression of interest form to get an assessment of whether you meet those requirements at this time.
Eligibility terms glossary:
- Substantive contributions: Contributions that are important / meaningful / significant
- Django ecosystem: What’s relevant to the Django community beyond Django itself
- 18 months prior: TBC depending on election dates - count things from May - October 2023 onwards.
- Django projects: Django core; third-party Django packages; Django websites and apps
- Major third-party packages: used by other people than yourself and your colleagues
- Documentation, tutorials or blog posts: has to be related to the Django ecosystem, can be your own blog / book / course / site.
- Discussions about Django: the mailing list is dead so we’ll also consider other platforms on a best-effort basis (Discord, Reddit, social media)
- Django-related events or user groups: events / groups relevant to the Django community
- Engagement with the direction and future of Django: as in participation to the public debate, or contribution to the direction of Django-related initiatives / groups / projects