I think this could open up another way in which companies could get involved in the development of Django by acting as a Sprint Sponsor. This could include providing a venue and/or funding for travel and lodging costs. Having a list of features that need to be sprinted on could attract companies that are looking for specific advancements in Django. In case of the CPython sprint linked above, Google provided the venue, and I'm sure medium/large companies would be happy to pay for their employees to attend.
Overall, I'm +1 on this. I agree we should be clear this is not an elite group of contributors but rather a time to sprint on Django proper or related projects deemed critical open to anyone who wants to help. We don't need to commit to an actual multi-year program from the get-go, we can start by running one sprint and iterating on the learnings from that. On Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 2:46:26 AM UTC-6 pa...@melchiorre.org wrote: > Hi 'st...@jigsawtech.co.uk', > I'm sorry but I can't find your name in the email. > > In my proposal I explicitly propose that the few people invited should > be financed in various ways, precisely to avoid excluding someone. > > Grazie, > Paolo > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:02 AM 'st...@jigsawtech.co.uk' via Django > developers (Contributions to Django itself) > <django-d...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > Hybrid sound the best way, with remote first as otherwise you are > excluding people who would need air travel that's not covered by someone > else and can be very expensive how and are thus increasing a carbon > footprint for something that really doesn't need it > > > > On Thursday, 27 October 2022 at 01:49:53 UTC+1 pa...@melchiorre.org > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Andrew, > >> > >> Thanks also to you for your very detailed answer. > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 1:54 AM Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> > wrote: > >> > >> > ... trying to organise an additional in-person event that a large > number of contributors are expected to go to is difficult.... > >> > >> I am aware that this proposal of mine to the DSF board is not easy, > >> but I think it could have positive effects as I have seen it happen in > >> the past and as it still happens today in other communities. > >> > >> > ... who do you invite (and presumably help pay for)? We no longer > have a core team ... > >> > >> I understand that the term "core" has triggered some old discussion > >> that I am not aware of, but in my proposal it refers to the scope of > >> the code to work on. > >> > >> > ...it's a hard metric to gauge. > >> > >> This is something that we could decide together. > >> > >> > ... while I do believe it should be a hybrid event, I also think it > should not be a remote-only event. > >> > >> On this point you seem to agree with my proposal > >> > >> > The final question I would raise is that of location ... > >> > >> I tried to give general indications on the location in my proposal so > >> that I could then decide a place based on the actual participants of a > >> given sprint, without imposing a predefined location or nation. > >> > >> > I didn't even discuss how we might fund this... > >> > >> Surely here too I left generic indications, because it seemed to me > >> more than once to understand that the DSF board would not have too > >> many problems in receiving new funds as long as they were destined for > >> a specific objective. > >> > >> For example, imagine a sprint working on only one of the proposals you > >> listed in your last talk, it could be a point that many may have an > >> interest in financing directly. > >> > >> Grazie, > >> Paolo > >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, at 4:01 PM, Paolo Melchiorre wrote: > >> > Hi everyone, > >> > Following Andrew Godwin's example, I too share with you a proposal > >> > that I made during DjangoCon US 2022 and that I have already shared > >> > with some of you. > >> > Inspired by an article by Will Vincent, I wrote my proposal for Django > >> > Core Sprints, and its genesis, in an article and would also like to > >> > have the opinions of the Django community members interested in the > >> > idea: > >> > > https://www.paulox.net/2022/10/26/about-my-proposal-for-the-django-core-sprints/ > >> > >> -- > >> Paolo Melchiorre > >> > >> https://www.paulox.net > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/994f5282-05b0-465b-8d13-851109f985c2n%40googlegroups.com > . > > > > -- > Paolo Melchiorre > > https://www.paulox.net > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/95b2b824-33df-4575-9d58-0ecb757a54adn%40googlegroups.com.
