DSF Board monthly meeting, June 12, 2025

This meeting was led by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Board members in attendance:

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

Also in attendance:

• Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)

Finance

Balance

USD $273,940

Grants approved

• PyHo 2025: USD $500
• PyLadiesCon 2025: USD $750

Individual members approved

• Naomi Morduch Toubman
• Ahmed Nassar
• Tim Bell
• Cecilia Tivir
• Taniguchi Taichi
• Akio Ogasahara

Corporate members approved

• Switchboard: USD $5,000

Ongoing business

Fellow updates

• Call for fellows
  • We will put a banner on the website
  • Django News will promote the call
• No update on the Contributor License Agreement
• The fellows are both on leave first two weeks of July, around release time
  • Mariusz could ship the release
  • We could also delay it

    Executive director updates

• Our ED consultant needed to take some extended leave
• Jeff Triplett has a plan B, to work on next week

  Django developers survey

• Thibaud to share resources with Tom

  Bylaws

• One more pull request to review and vote on next month

  Django sprints

• First experiment: Django on the Med(iterranean)
• Around 7-8 October 2025 in Palafrugell, Spain
• Palafrugell Library

New business

Becoming a CVE Numbering Authority

• Autonomy and process improvements when dealing with security reports
• Initial application process and onboarding to be led by Natalia
• Consensus is that the Fellows should move forward and ask if there’s anything they need

  Content working group

• There is a draft document
• PR coming this week

  Django birthday

• Celebrated at PyCon IT
• More plans being developed

  Action items

• Tom Carrick: put together a google sheet to track fellow applicants
• Tom Carrick: add fellow job to Python Jobs
• Jacob Kaplan-Moss: write up slack voting procedures that are bylaws-compatible
• Jacob Kaplan-Moss: bylaws amendment for elections and quorums