DDEV Advisory Group Meeting 2024-07-03

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Previous meeting: May 1, 2024
Next meeting: 6 November 2024

Agenda

• Turn on recording, ask for a minutes-taker

DDEV Key Topic: Governance

One of our goals for 2024 is to make progress on long-term governance beyond our current informal BDFL governance situation. Today let's talk about:

• What is governance?
  • Making decisions
  • Ensuring continuity
  • Planning
  • Open communications
• Governance options and challenges: https://governingopen.com/
• Models: Membership+Council
  • Mautic (Ruth Cheesley "How do you change the governance model of an established open-source project"
  • TYPO3
• BDFL (curl): https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/27/my-bdfl-guiding-principles/
• Governance topics from earlier Drupal discussions
• Next steps in governance discussion: Review other communities?

Recent Updates

• Andrew and Randy talked DDEV Grows Up on Talking Drupal podcast, discussing community, sustainability, project goals
• Signed contract with Open Strategy Partners (JAM, Robert Douglass) for marketing communication initiative
• DDEV v1.23.1, v1.23.2, v1.23.3 releases
• Mariadb-dump format change shakes the internet blog
• Moving meeting announcements and signup to Meetup.com DDEV Live Events, feedback welcome.
• DDEV Live Contributor training started up, now scheduled at https://www.meetup.com/ddev-events/
• Google Workspace for ddev.com since we now have 501(c)(3)
• Joomla and Sulu Quickstarts

Financials

Financial Summary:

• We have about $19,000 in the bank.
• Our income varies, but averages about $5000/month.
• Our primary expense is contract services (Stas), about $3500-$4000/month
• We will now be paying OSP about $1600/month

DDEV Foundation Balance Sheet 2024-07-03-13_30.pdf
DDEV Foundation Profit and Loss 2024-07-03-13_28.pdf

Anything on anybody's mind!

Meeting Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Aa3rtiDG-nPt4qSpF3kQh9DfpoRUeoorgP3FnHnduAY/edit?usp=sharing

Recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwFlZTumimU