DSF Board monthly meeting, December 10, 2024
The meeting was led by Chaim Kirby.
Board members in attendance were:
- Thibaud Colas
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Chaim Kirby
- Cagil Ulusahin Sonmez
- Kátia Nakamura
- Katie McLaughlin
- Sarah Abderemane
- Jeff Triplett
- Tom Carrick
- Paolo Melchiorre
- Abigail Afi Gbadago
Also in attendance were:
- Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)
Finances
Balance
USD $247,086.00
Individual members approved
- Oliver Andrich
- Mario Munoz
- Yash Raj
- Leila Verhaegen
- Csirmaz Bendegúz
- Takayuki Shimizukawa
- Ülgen Sarıkavak
Corporate members approved
- Dedomainia
- Torchbox
Ongoing business
6.x Steering Council elections
- [public] 6.x Steering Council elections planning
- 12 candidates (11 through Expression of Interest + 1 via Candidate Registration form)
- Zero non-DSF-members registrations as voters (as expected)
- Voting email going out today, including to newly-registered Individual Members as of the meeting
- Handover planning based on advice by past Steering Council members. Possibly reach out to other technical teams.
- A lot of background context to pass on to 2025 DSF Board members, including expectations for the upcoming Steering Council
New business
2024 Django Developers Survey
- 2500 completed answers so far (goal: 4000 - 5000)
- Currently planning to end the survey on schedule (21st December)
- Plan to share summarized free-form answers, with Jacob interested to help on summarizing
2025 officer elections
- President: Thibaud Colas
- Vice President: Sarah Abderemane
- Treasurer: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Secretary: Tom Carrick
Congratulations all!
Install New Board Members
- See 2025 DSF Board election results.
- The following candidates have been elected: - Abigail Gbadago - Jeff Triplett - Paolo Melchiorre - Tom Carrick
Proposal: GitHub Secure Open Source Fund application
- GitHub provides $12k funding, and 3-week training for participant(s)
- Proposal for a Fellow to take part in the training
- Approved for the Fundraising working group to proceed with their proposal
Thank you to our departing board members
Our deepest gratitude goes to our departing board members who are at the end of their term as of the end of this meeting: Çağıl Uluşahin Sonmez, Chaim Kirby, Kátia Yoshime Nakamura, Katie McLaughlin; thank you for your contributions and commitment to the Django community ❤️.
Action items
- Catherine Holmes: Create monthly charts for finances to date & share PyCharm campaign data
- Thibaud Colas: Report two user accounts to Instagram for trademark infringement
- Thibaud Colas & Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Take GitHub OSSF fund back to the Fundraising WG and let them know we can proceed
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Connect Sarah/Natalia with the potential in-kind security sponsor
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Respond to Apache Airflow partnership request
