This is a copy of the DSF’s internal documentation on the DSF President officer role
🚧 Super rough notes, this needs filling out 🚧
Formally the President leads the Board, though that responsibility is vague.
Historical actions/responsibilities:
- Runs board meetings
- Can approve expenses like the Treasurer can (see [[DSF Board Treasurer role]]), in practice usually doesn't
- Signs contracts -- fellows, djangocon, etc
- Legally I think any officer can execute contracts on behalf of the DSF, but in practice the President has been the one to sign, and the Board has approved ahead of time
- President has historically served as board liaison to CoC WG
- Historically the President has also owned things like GSuite admin
There's a lot of room for the President to do more with the role — if they wanted.