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PSF Meeting Minutes for March 11, 2026

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Title: 2026-03-11 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

March 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 March 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 (10 of 12) were present at the meeting: Christopher Neugebauer, KwonHan Bae, Cristián Maureira-Fredes, Georgi Ker, Jannis Leidel, Denny Perez, Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe, Sheena O'Connell, Cheuk Ting Ho, Simon Willison.

Olivia Sauls (Program Director), 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), and Mike Fiedler (PyPI Safety & Security Engineer) were also in attendance.

2   Minutes of Past Meetings

Minutes from prior meeting March 11, 2026:

RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the minutes at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/psf-important@python.org/thread/I2KYQN5TY3DNEWFM6NIGYHBDZFGH5ABI/ as representing a true and accurate record of the February 11, 2026 meeting.

Approved, 10-0-0

3   Board and Staff Monthly Reports for March 2026

3.1   Deb Nicholson

  • Work on payroll migration
  • Strategic planning support
  • Conversations with peers about package repository sustainability
  • Discussions with sister orgs about trends and opportunities
  • Support PyCon US work
  • Conversations with sponsors/stakeholders
  • Work on annual report

3.2   Oliva Sauls

  • PyCon US Budget work
  • Food and Beverage
  • Managing vendors and contractors
  • Hotel block management
  • Preparing for PyCon US schedule launch
  • PyLadies Auction planning
  • AV planning and room allocations
  • PyCon US Startup Row planning and communications
  • Travel grants work
  • Speaker notifications and schedule build in Pretalx
  • Communicating with CFP committees and chairs
  • [us.pycon.org/2026/](http://us.pycon.org/2026/) management
  • Summits planning

3.3   Laura Graves

  • Ongoing accounting activities
    • Cleaning up bank reconciliations from August-February
    • Meetings with Sutro Li about fractional accounting work
    • Meetings with banks to close obsolete bank accounts
    • Meetings with banks to fix permissions and signers
    • Review of 1099s issued in January and fixing errors
    • Meeting with Jacob to discuss PWG and other fiscally sponsored projects
    • Closing old PEX card user accounts
  • Grants
    • Meeting with Marie to discuss grants transparency report
    • Review and edits to Meetup application for reopening meetup requests
  • PyCon US
    • Contacting groups who do special travel grants about program for 2026
    • Onboarding meeting with Naomi
    • Adjusting all PEX card balances for PyCon US travel
    • Creating donation form for PyLadies auction
    • PyCon US Travel Grant review and documentation updates
  • Reporting
    • Filing Annual Reports
      • Utah
      • Washington
      • Delaware
    • Renewing Registered Agent Services
      • Delaware
      • Maryland
      • Ohio
      • Washington
  • Human Resources
    • Gaining access to VSP account
    • Updating beneficiary information
    • Reviewing FSA payout for 2025
    • Workers Comp Audit
    • Gaining access to Accrue account
    • Onboarding documents and calls with new PEO
    • Providing year-end information for Accrue/Guideline

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

  • PyCon US
    • PSF Booth coordination, logistics, volunteer team management
    • Community Booth facilitation of application review & decision making, communications
    • General communications support
    • Members lunch
    • Sponsor benefit communications
    • Supporting presenting of CSA’s
  • Grants
    • Reopening Meetup Pro Network applications
      • Coordination of form updates
      • Communications
      • Documentation updates
    • Administration of new Community Partner Program
    • Progress on 2025 transparency report
  • Fellows
    • Q1 nomination review & voting administration
    • Supporting Fellows WG process updates
  • Annual Impact Report coordination of ongoing design work
  • Working with Jacob on new wiki requirements & communications
  • Python Developers Survey promotion & gathering feedback

3.6   Seth Larson

3.7   Mike Fiedler

3.8   Jaime Barrera

March report not provided.

3.9   Jacob Coffee

  • Preparing for PyCon US
    • Schedule launch testing
    • Mobile app testing
  • Attended SCaLE conference in Pasadena, CA
    • Collaborated with Elaine & Jon, saw moderate success in pitches for sponsors / booth slots as well as individuals that did (or will) register for the conference
  • Spent time working towards new Python core team and PSF blogs
    • Python core team blog is live
  • Deprecated the wiki
    • Did this in a poor way (communicatively), sorry about that!
    • New solution is in the works, working with Marie
  • Worked toward a better workflow with the [Python.org](http://Python.org) codebase
    • Re-organized things out of the top level, improved DevEx
  • Worked with finance team on a number of projects including mailing list improvements
  • Worked on Cabotage (Internal PaaS)
    • After reviewing other solutions, decided that it was best to just improve the service
    • Total redesign on the frontend
    • Many features landed by Ee that improve UX
    • Working toward making it a great experience for us internally but also good for our community users like PyLadies

3.10   Maria Ashna

March report not provided.

3.11   Kelly Ragland

March report not provided.

3.12   Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe

  • Education and Outreach workgroup discussions on the Educator in Residence proposal
  • Interacted and connected with New African Pythonistas
  • PSF Board Office Hours

3.13   Sheena O'Connell

  • PyCon Namibia:
    • Fundraising support
    • Ran some Python teacher training (much needed!)
    • Did a “playing the long game” talk encouraging younger folks to learn foundational code (looks like it worked)
  • PyTV:
    • Django+LLM talk
  • Django Con US: Trying to pull together a learning sprint
  • PSF: worked on the educator in residence proposal. Got help from the Education workgroup
  • PyCon Africa: chipping away at CoC issues slowly. Will have more time for it now I hope
  • PyConZA: Started pulling the team together

3.14   Denny Perez

March report not provided.

3.15   Cristián Maureira-Fredes

March report not provided.

3.16   Simon Willison

March report not provided.

3.17   Jannis Leidel

March report not provided.

3.18   Georgi Ker

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

March report not provided.

3.21   Cheuk Ting Ho

March report not provided.

3.22   Chris Neugebauer

  • Community: Working on North Bay Python CFP and general organising
  • PSF: PyCon US booth team
  • PSF: Executive committee meetings etc

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 729 Job submissions created in March 2026:
    • 203 have status approved
    • 8 have status archived
    • 41 have status draft
    • 279 have status expired
    • 74 have status rejected
    • 102 have status removed
    • 22 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

  • The PSF board discussed the updated version of PEP 772 and voted on the following resolution:

    RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation authorizes the creation of a Packaging Council as described in the draft of PEP 772 as published on 12 December 2025 with the following clarification: The Python Steering Council (PSC) is the final arbiter for technical conflicts of interest, and the PSF Board is the final arbiter for conflicts of interest related to governance for the Packaging Council.

    Approved; 10-0-0, 2026-03-11

9   Discussions

  • The board discussed an update on the PyCon US 2026 registrations and hotel pickup along with announcement on the PyCon US 2026 schedule launch.
  • The board discussed an update on PyPI Security on Malware/Violation volume and the following notes:
    • To tell security researchers and classes to not use malware on PyPI as an exercise.
    • To continue pursuing funding opportunities for this work.
    • To seek partners who want to get involved in driving up the quality of partner scans.
  • The board discussed the upcoming opening of Meetup Applications.
  • The board discussed the JetBrains Survey.
  • 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 14:00 UTC