DSF Board monthly meeting, April 10, 2025

The meeting was led by Thibaud Colas.

Board members in attendance were:

• Thibaud Colas
• Jacob Kaplan-Moss
• Sarah Abderemane
• Jeff Triplett
• Tom Carrick
• Paolo Melchiorre
• Abigail Afi Gbadago

Also in attendance were:

• Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)

Finances

Balance

USD $274,676.00

Individual members approved

• Bas van Oostveen
• Florian Demmer
• Rahmat Akintola

Ongoing business

Confirmation for community Booth at PyCon US 2025

• We're good to go. Jacob has some TODOs around paperwork and scheduling, but it’s all well in hand
• Still have two tickets to give away - if we don’t find a member who wants them, open up to general public (lightweight application?) or donate back to PSF travel grant fund?
• Jacob and Catherine to print a banner and some stickers

Contributor License Agreement

No progress.

Form for Djangonaut Space session at PyCon Italia

Form was created.

Future potential bylaws changes

• Annual members meetings - required by Kansas state law
• Re-defining quorum for member voting
  • Unclear if this applies, bylaws are unclear. We need to at least clarify, and possibly amend with some sort of “active member” definition for voting to avoid quorum issues
  • Jacob and Tom are interested in working on this, not particularly soon though

Proposed bylaws changes

• Two proposed changes from Jeff, drafted but not yet ready for a vote
• One more proposed change coming up from Jacob

New business

Django Developers Survey

• Tom and Thibaud to analyse 2024 edition and prepare for 2025
• Sarah and Jeff also available to help for 2025

Executive Director update

• Some of the board members (ad hoc “ED committee”) met to discuss options
• Getting a strawman quote on a part-time ED role so we have something concrete to discuss, ED Committee will meet about that
• Looking to hire a person with non-profit, open source, leadership experience (Django: bonus)
• Concerns about which countries we may be able to consider for applications
• Whatever decisions we make it’d be a good idea to write them down in case things change in a few years or if we want to pursue a different strategy later

Pull request: Charter template for new teams

• Pull request
• To review, referring to bylaws

Pull request: Django accessibility team to working group structure

• Pull request
• Concerns about the team potentially diverging from other teams
• Send this back to the accessibility team and the board does not need to vote after

Action items

• Paolo Melchiorre: Figure out logistics of shipping Django banners to different events
• Catherine Holmes: Create monthly charts for finances to date & share PyCharm campaign data
• Jeff Triplett: Create a draft forum post about bylaws changes we were discussing
• Jeff Triplett: Share some questions about other bylaw changes
• Thibaud Colas: Prepare agenda item or async update on DjangoCon naming restrictions
• Jeff Triplett and Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Write forum posts for bylaws changes - separate posts (2 for Jeff, 1 for Jacob)
• Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Research into elections and quorum requirements for membership
• Thibaud Colas: Start a forum thread about CLA
• Thibaud Colas: Set up stop-gap CLA email auto-response