The 2025 DSF Board Nominations are open! The directors of the foundation serve a staggered term of two years. Of seven directors of the Foundation, four positions are open. Nominations are open to all, until October 25, 2024.
After that – we’ll have a list of candidates, and our DSF Individual Members will vote 
There is way more information on the linked blog post, and a link to the nomination form. If you have any questions, feel free to ask here, or you can email foundation@djangoproject.com.
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For anyone with questions on what a DSF Board member does, here are my personal notes about a month and a year on the Board.
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I would add that for this upcoming election, I think it is important that new Board Members come in with a sense of purpose about WHAT they want to achieve. The DSF Board exists to support Django and a big part of that is keeping the lights on, processing donations, paying the Fellows, supporting conferences, and dealing with minor issues in the community.
But it COULD/SHOULD also tackle bigger issues that are not new but need a push. To me, the biggest one is adding an Executive Director, which @jacobian spoke about in his talk at DjangoCon US this past week. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of debate against adding one, rather it is a question of raising the money and then doing a proper job search/vetting process.
So, to me, a very big area of focus is that. If you are interested in being on the board and have thoughts/experience around this issue, I would strongly recommend you include it in your personal statement!
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Thank you @wsvincent! I agree it’s essential for candidate board members to get a clear picture of what they would want to do when elected. And in addition, the more people share their thoughts over blog posts or just replies here, the better.
keeping the lights on
From my perspective as a board member, a healthy amount of time to “keeping the lights on” within the volunteer board model is about 1-2h per week per board member. Anything above that can go towards specific initiatives / interests. For example for me that’s putting Django back in growth mode, climate action, accessibility / inclusivity in our community.
To me, the biggest one is adding an Executive Director, […] There doesn’t seem to be a lot of debate against adding one.
That’s definitely a thing that’ll only happen if enough of the directors concentrate on it. I don’t recall having many board discussions about it. I’d want to know more about how this would work compared to the past DSF’s Director of Advancement role.
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