Content: volunteering opportunities
Join the best Django open source project
Do you love open source? Do you want to contribute to the success of django CMS? Enter our core team and shape the future of django CMS!
The django CMS Association is the non-profit organization that is behind the django CMS open source project. Our goal is to accelerate the django CMS project, nurture the community, and support its growth.
To pursue our goals, we rely on django CMS enthusiasts who are on fire for the project and want to see it grow and thrive. For people who would like to take on more responsibility and support the project with their expertise, we offer a wide range of volunteer positions.
Why should you join the dCA as a volunteer?
- Join a reputable team of django CMS enthusiast and be part of a vibrant community
- Gain reputation in the python / django / django CMS community
- Improve your skills and build a proven track record
- Build and extend your network in the open source world
- Receive your own django-cms.org email address
- Have your profile listed on the website
- Get to know new people and benefit from knowledge sharing
- Attend the quarterly association board meeting
- Add your voluntary position to your LinkedIn profile
- Receive a merch bundle (django CMS hoody, stickers etc.)
Below you find all volunteer roles that the django CMS Association is maintaining. The following positions are currently vacant:
- Marketing Manager
- Community Manager
- Technical Lead
- Documentation Lead
- Product Manager
- Vice President of the dCA
Are you interested in one of them? Please get in touch with [email protected]
All Positions
Marketing Manager (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: 10h per month
Experience: Marketing & Communications, Copywriting
These could be your responsibilities:
- Create monthly newsletter
- Create new case studies
- Responsible for the blog / news (enable community generated content)
- Responsible for release communication
- Responsible for the marketing report in the quarterly board meeting
- Merchandising logistics
Community Manager (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: 10h per month
Experience: Community Management, User interaction
These could be your responsibilities:
- Ownership for Community Hero Program
- Own the onboarding process of new contributors (welcome new contributors, conduct onboarding questionnaires, conduct onboarding call, recommend buddies and workgroups.
- Onboarding of new contributors into workgroups (organize intro meetings with buddies and workgroup leaders and follow-up
- Community support (reply to user inquiries), be the first point of contact for community members Responsibility for events, such as online sprints or hackathons
Technical Lead (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: ~8h per month
Experience: Deep technical understanding of Django / django CMS / Python, expertise in software architecture
These could be your responsibilities:
- Lead the monthly Technical Committee meeting
- Lead technical committee in important decisions
- Coordinate development contributions and help with prioritization
- Responsible for release automation
- Responsible for the technical report in the quarterly board meeting
- Responsible for the django CMS demo platform
- Responsible for the success of the django CMS Fellow
Documentation Lead (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: 8h per month
Experience: Open source documentation, technical writing, markdown or RST
These could be your responsibilities:
- Responsible for https://docs.django-cms.org
- Responsible for user guide (special assignment: transfer user guide to readthedocs)
- Responsible for the documentation report in the quarterly board meeting
Growth Manager (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: 10h per month
Experience: Experience in relationship management and/or sales
These could be your responsibilities:
- Manage incoming membership leads (reply to incoming membership requests, set up intro calls w/ prospects, onboard new members)
- Identify partnership opportunities and extend partnership program
- Responsibility for relationship management for existing members (e.g. renewals)
- Responsibility for growth opportunities such as ambassador program or student program
Product Manager (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: ~10h per month
Experience: Product management / strategy experience
These could be your responsibilities:
- Monitor and foster activity in workgroups
- Responsible for the product vision and product roadmap
- Responsible for release management (see release management process)
- Lead the release management workgroup
- Own the RFC process (facilitate discussion & feedback, conduct vote)
- Responsible for the product management report in the quarterly board meeting
President of the Association (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: 8h per month
Responsibilities:
- Directing the leadership team and recruiting
- Representational duties
- Responsible for key relationship and stakeholder management
- Troubleshooting
- See the full list of Shared Board Member duties
Vice-President (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: 10h per month
Responsibilities:
- Shares all duties with the President
- Consulting the president on all matters
- See the full list of Shared Board Member duties
- Substitutes the president if the president is unavailable
Secretary (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: ~4h per month
Experience: Business
Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for the organisation of the annual General Assembly event (facilitation and protocol)
- Supports president and vice-president with administrative / legal matter
- See the full list of Shared Board Member duties
Treasurer (Volunteer Position)
Expected workload: ~4h per month
Experience: Accounting
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for book keeping
- preparing and proposing the annual budget
- preparing and proposing the annual financial statement
- Supports president and vice-president with administrative / legal matter
- See the full list of Shared Board Member duties
