How do we support for each other in the Django community?

If we take the large assumption that being an open source maintainer is a financially viable option to make a living as a choice (while some do succeed in this it's not commonplace), I wonder what other aspects of support maintainers would need?

Let's start with the word maintainer, this is traditionally limited to those who write the code, but in a large community this could include any community member that 'maintains' something, this could be teaching content, conference organisers, moderators, anyone who spends their own time giving back to the community.

Beyond financial support, I wonder what other support we could provide each other as a community? For me it's supporting other's wellbeing, be it physical, mental, emotional, relational or spiritual. These aspects form the heart of any functional community. These are broad categories each with lots of potential ways and ideas for us to support each other.

What's brilliant about these other aspects is that the financial aspect of implementing them is low or zero, it takes time (which does cost us), but I find we always gain something far deeper.

To that end, if anyone want to chat or would like some support (disclaimer I'm not a professional therapist etc!), then feel free to reach out to me via email or in a DM referrencing this post.