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