05-30, 16:10–17:00 (Europe/London), East Drawing Room
Exploring the role of Django Software Foundation, and how Django governance works.
Join us for an insightful session as we provide an introductory overview of DSF and Django governance, featuring members of the DSF board and other teams.
Çağıl Sönmez is a software engineer based in London. She has been working with Python and Django since 2008.
Currently she is working as a Lead Backend Engineer at Kraken Tech (part of Octopus Energy).
She is vice president in Django Software Foundation, co-organiser of London Django Meetup, Pycon Turkey, DjangoGirls Turkey, and a proud member of PSF.
Chaim Kirby is the President of the Django Software Foundation, an engineering leader with over 20 years experience in the health tech space building complex web applications, and an administrator of a python focused slack with over 40,000 registered users. Chaim is currently Head of Engineering at Budgie-Health. He's been working with Django since v1.1 and been a community participant since 2014.
Kátia is from Brazil 🇧🇷 Based in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
She is a Django Software Foundation (DSF) board member since 2020 and she has been involved with Django and Python/Django community since 2015 when she attended the Django Girls event in Brazil that happened during the Python Brazil 2015.
She is part of the PyCon Balkan 2018 and 2019 organization team and a few Django Girls events as a coach in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Budapest (Hungary) and an organizer in Brno (Czech Republic), in Belgrade (Serbia) and in Porto (Portugal). ✨
Currently works as a Django Specialist and Sr. Framework Engineer at Fly.io 👩🏽💻