Tag: governance
🔗 Democratising publishing October 30th, 2024
“Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license. The company has no investors and, in fact, no owners of any kind. I don’t own any part of Ghost, and neither does my co-founder Hannah. We currently generate around $7.5M in annual revenue, and have been profitable and sustainable for the past 12 years. “Wait, what?” I’m glad you asked.”…
Django's new governance model March 12th, 2020
Starting today, Django has a new governance model. Previously, a small “core team” made most decisions, including electing a Technical Board to own decisions about each release. Now, the “core team” is gone; all power rests with the Technical Board. Anyone who’s made substantial contributions to Django is now eligible to run, and the board is now elected by the DSF Membership at large. You can read more about the change in today’s announcement, and if you want to full details they’re in DEP 10.…