DSF Board monthly meeting, May 8, 2025

This meeting was led by Thibaud Colas

Board members in attendance:

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

Also in attendance:

• Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)

Finance

Balance

USD $276,493

Grants approved

• DjangoCon US: USD $6,000
• PyCon Portugal: USD $500

Individual members approved

• Valentino Gagliardi
• Giannis Terzopoulos
• Apoorv Garg
• Anthony Addae
• Kushal Das
• Marco Silva

Corporate members approved

• NRW.BANK

Ongoing business

Pull request: Charter template for new teams

• Vote passed

Pull request: Django accessibility team to working group structure

• Done

ED updates

• Further discussing / getting guidance from EDs on how we should proceed with this
• Working on a proposal next
• Additional offers to help from other EDs

Django Developers Survey 2024

• Handover between Thibaud and Tom
• Currently collecting feedback and quotes

Bylaws changes

• Attendance: https://github.com/django/dsf-bylaws/issues/6 – Approved by board vote
• Affiliation limits: https://github.com/django/dsf-bylaws/issues/4 - Approved by board vote
  • Approved as-is, we may fix/update language and vote for next meeting

New business

New Fellow

• Board vote approved for a 12 month period, starting around August

Minutes improvements

• Writing minutes takes a long time due to the admin page being difficult to work with
• Board vote: approved to move to markdown in a GitHub repository.

Django Sprints 1st experiment (October 2025 in Palafrugell (ES))

• More to be shared in the future.

European banner

• Proposal to spend EUR 100-150 to print a new banner to be sent to Italy
• Board vote: approved to spend on the order of USD $150