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New group proposed to replace and broaden the existing DjangoCon Europe support group. Key differences:

Similarities:

  • DjangoCon Europe organizer proposals voting remains with the Board
  • Event grants requests remains with the Board

We’re looking for members now. There is some urgency in getting this up and running as we have a lot of ongoing activities that could use support, namely:

  • DjangoCon Africa coming up in August
  • DjangoCon Europe 2026 organizing kickstart
  • DjangoCon Europe 2027 call for organizers

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I'm just going to mention Django on the Med 🏖️ here too. It's not really an official event (currently) and I'm not sure what help we need (currently) but it's happening, and is maybe relevant. 🦄

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❤️ it says Django in the name so certainly Django-related enough that it’d be cool for this group to provide some support! Let me / us know if / when you’d like publicity for the event for starters

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Thank you @thibaudcolas for this proposal ✨
I just add a small addition, but otherwise looks sensible to me.

Co-authored-by: Sarah Abderemane <[email protected]>
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Love it, thanks for stepping in and doing this @thibaudcolas ! 👏

- Co-Chair: David Vaz
- Board Liaison: Thibaud Colas
- Other members:
- You?
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- You?
- Benjamin Balder Bach
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I'm nominating myself with two skills:

  • Being a member of the former DjangoCon Europe Support Group
  • Being an organizer of DjangoCon Europe 2019

I'd like to continue to help foster happy, creative, sustainable Django-related events. Both big, but especially also small :)

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We’d be lucky to have you!

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I'd like to just air an idea of a potential European DEFNA-like organization that could set some guidelines on the financial part of DjangoCon Europe, and keep a running bank-account between events, give back profits to DSF etc.

The idea would be that discussions and initiatives could start from this group, and certainly if its members are very much from Europe.

But with that goal in mind, we could actually benefit from having DEFNA people in this group, simply to knowledge-share on having a permanent organization.

Not least, it would also become a trajectory on where to land the "DjangoCon Europe" calls/proposals/licenses in the longer term.

I'm not saying let's do this - more let's discuss this if people are happy to do so :)

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LGTM

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thibaudcolas commented Aug 14, 2025

@benjaoming so you know we are having private discussions about creating an organization in Europe. Some are a DEFNA concept, some are closer to DSF. We can have you involved with those. We have also reached out to people involved with DEFNA / DjangoCon US to make them aware of this proposal. I’ve not had time to check if they were interested or not but we can follow up once the group is starting.

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