Specialist Fellow Roles for Django

This was first mentioned in one of Jeff's office hours (the EU edition to be precise!) where someone brought up the idea in chat of a Documentation/Technical Writing Fellow and a Security Fellow. Personally this struck me as a reasonably good idea and since then it has noodled in my brain over the holiday's and below are some further thoughts.

First a disclaimer, most of this will rely on increased funding to the DSF so they first hire an ED which ought to pave the way for further funding, the fellowship program being one recipient of the increased funding.

When I think the word 'fellow' it's often it's academic context that comes to mind (maybe because I live in Cambridge?) anyway, it made me think about the adjectives that go before the word, most notably there are "Teaching Fellow's" and "Research Fellow's", alongside the above mentioned Documentation Fellow.

Each of these would seem to have a place in the Django community, for example, a Teaching Fellow is someone paid by the DSF to produce teaching material for Django, be it written, audio or video. A Research Fellow could be charged with researching new features that are then proposed back to the community or researching and developing reference projects. The possibilities here are obviously endless and are perhaps more projects rather than roles to begin with so that the Fellows hired can get a feel for the existing responsibilties before we add new ones.

One question that comes to mind though it how to frame the existing essential work that the Fellow's do? It's a mix of things that is likely worth defining (if it hasn't been done already) as separate roles that could exist for separate individuals in the future? Personally I would want to ensure that these questions are answered before we add more specialised fellows to the mix.

What do you think? Does this idea have legs or should it stay on the cutting room floor until some future date?