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PSF Meeting Minutes for Feb. 11, 2026

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Title: 2026-02-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes Encoding: utf-8 Author: psf at python.org Content-Type: text/x-rst

The Python Software Foundation
Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors

February 11, 2026

A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat/Slack beginning at 13:00 UTC, on February 11, 2026. Deb Nicholson took notes/minutes.

All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Y‚opposed-N‚abstentions-A; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 abstentions").

1   Attendance

The following members of the Board of Directors (11 of 12) were present at the meeting: Christopher Neugebauer, KwonHan Bae, Cristián Maureira-Fredes, Deb Nicholson, Georgi Ker, Jannis Leidel, Denny Perez, Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe, Sheena O'Connell, Cheuk Ting Ho, Simon Willison.

Jaime Barrera (Community Events Coordinator), Marie Nordin (Community Communications Manager), Laura Graves (Senior Accountant), Loren Crary (Deputy Executive Director), Seth Larson (Python Security Developer in Residence), Kelly Ragland (Finance Manager), Jacob Coffee (Infrastructure Engineer) and Mike Fiedler (PyPI Safety & Security Engineer) were also in attendance.

2   Minutes of Past Meetings

Minutes from prior meeting January 14, 2026:

RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the minutes at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/psf-important@python.org/thread/BZBBV2GCPS5HFGH2VUGEDW2Y3GCZXQHX/ as representing a true and accurate record of the January 14, 2026 meeting.

Approved, 11-0-0

3   Board and Staff Monthly Reports for February 2026

3.1   Deb Nicholson

  • Work on accounting and administrative capacity planning
  • Strategic planning support
  • Conversations with peers about package repository sustainability
  • Review outreach opportunities for 2026
  • Begin review of insurance coverage
  • Discuss future tech staffing plans
  • Support PyCon US work

3.2   Oliva Sauls

  • PyCon US 2026
    • Closed CFP review round 2
    • Worked with CFP committees and volunteers on proposal selection and speaker notifications
    • PyCon US 2026 budget
    • Registration and hotel tracking
    • Vendor coordination and contracting
    • Summit organization and room planning
    • Support staff proposal review and scope
    • Design work
    • Social media and attendance promotion
    • Community booth application planning
    • Schedule build
  • PTO

3.3   Laura Graves

  • Ongoing accounting activities
    • Re-boarding call with Kelly
    • Email and Slack review from leave
    • Discussions with Deb/Kelly about fractional accounting firm
  • Grants
    • Re-boarding call with Marie
  • PyCon US
    • Re-boarding meeting with Olivia re: PyCon 2026 (travel grants, keynotes, budget, staff travel, and PyLadies)
    • Reviewing backlog of Travel Grant requests to pycon-aid@

3.4   Loren Crary

  • Correspondence with current and prospective sponsors
  • Contract negotiation with current and prospective sponsors
  • Assessing and pursuing grant opportunities
  • Drafting and revising strategic public communications
  • Board relations
  • Strategic Planning support
  • Strategic team management and support
  • Policy review support
  • Targeted outreach to promote PyCon US Call for Proposal and PyCon US/PSF sponsorship program
  • Managing Programs Director & Community Communications Manager

3.5   Marie Nordin

  • Outreach, establishing points of contacts, new mailing list for fiscal sponsoree communications
  • PyCon US * Community Booths * PSF Booth * Comms support
  • 2025 Annual Impact Report
    • Content coordination, editing
  • 2026 Python Developers Survey promotion
  • Refresh support for Fellows WG, coordinating new webform for nomination submissions
  • Community Partner Program prep & rollout
  • Grants
    • Meetup pro
    • Transparency report
    • Future of program
  • Sponsors benefit communications

3.6   Seth Larson

3.7   Mike Fiedler

3.8   Jaime Barrera

  • Registration number and hotel pickup reporting
  • PyCon US registration system management
  • Supporting Loren with sponsorship tracking and benefit fulfillment

3.9   Jacob Coffee

  • Submitted to EuroPython CfP
  • Joined PSRT, PyPA
  • 2025 Annual Impact Report for Infrastructure and PyPI
  • PyCon US prep work (app store, vouchers, etc.)
  • Working to get supported applications off of Heroku
  • Finalizing job descriptions for Infrastructure Engineer & PyPI Software Engineer

3.10   Maria Ashna

February report not provided.

3.11   Kelly Ragland

February report not provided.

3.12   Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe

3.13   Sheena O'Connell

  • PyCon Africa: Trying to get a proper CoC team and process off the ground
  • PyCon Namibia:
    • Fundraising support
    • Prep for education days (Python teacher training)
  • PyConZA/PSSSA:
    • Starting planning for grants and fundraising efforts + rallying the troops
  • Education and Outreach workgroup
    • Refinements of Educator in Residence proposal

3.14   Denny Perez

February report not provided.

3.15   Cristián Maureira-Fredes

February report not provided.

3.16   Simon Willison

February report not provided.

3.17   Jannis Leidel

February report not provided.

3.18   Georgi Ker

  • PSF - PSF Booth
  • PSF - Office Hour
  • PSF - Executive Committee meeting and strategic planning
  • PSF - Prepared D&I WG election.
  • PSF - Chaired 2 D&I WG meetings
  • PSF - Strategic planning framework
  • Community - Attended FOSDEM 2026
  • Community - Worked on latest PyPodcats episode

3.19   KwonHan Bae

  • PSF - participated in board discussions via Slack and email
  • PSF - attended board meeting
  • COMMUNITY : Python Asia Organize
  • COMMUNITY : PyCon KR Organize

3.20   Tania Allard

February report not provided.

3.21   Cheuk Ting Ho

  • Conduct workgroup and Education and Outreach workgroup meeting
  • PSF/EPS/DSF joint stand at FOSDEM
  • Board office hour
  • [PyCon US] conversation for sprint organisation

3.22   Chris Neugebauer

February report not provided.

4   Work Group Reports

4.1   Code of Conduct

  • Nothing to report at this time.

4.2   Grants

  • Nothing to report at this time.

4.3   Sponsors

  • Nothing to report at this time.

4.4   Marketing

  • Nothing to report at this time.

4.5   Jobs

  • Of the 534 Job submissions created in February 2026:
    • 166 have status approved
    • 5 have status archived
    • 33 have status draft
    • 198 have status expired
    • 64 have status rejected
    • 64 have status removed
    • 4 have status review

4.6   Trademarks

  • Nothing to report

4.7   Fellows

  • Nothing to report

4.8   Packaging

  • Nothing to report

4.9   Infrastructure

  • Nothing to report

4.10   Scientific Python

  • Nothing to report

8   New Business

  • None at this time.

9   Discussions

  • The board discussed an update on the PyCon US 2026 registrations and hotel pickup.
  • The board discussed a call for for PSF booth volunteers at PyCon US 2026.
  • The board discussed the End-of-Year fundraiser retrospective.
  • The board discussed the Community Partner Program launch.
  • The board discussed a retrospective of the PSF Board accomplishments for 2025.
  • The board discussed a strategic planning update.
  • The board discussed setting up internal board office hours.
  • The board discussed PyCon US travel and activities

Meeting adjourned at 15:00 UTC