Board of Directors Meeting 2026-03-09 - Call Minutes

Board of Directors Meeting 2026-03-09 - Call Minutes

Date: Monday, March 9, 2026
Location: Jitsi

Session chair: Eliane Domingos de Sousa
Notes for the minutes: Stephan, Florian

In the call:

Board - Simon, Eliane, Paolo, Sophie, Mike, Osvaldo, Laszlo
Board deputies - none
Membership committee - Andreas,
Membership committee substitutes -
Team - Florian, Stephan, Jonathan C., Ilmari,
Community - Tuomas Hietala, Thorsten Behrens, Caolán

Representation: none

The Board of Directors at the time of the call consists of 7 seat holders without deputies. In order to be quorate, the call needs to have 1/2 of the Board of Directors members, which gives 4. A total of 7 Board of Directors members are attending the call.

The board waives all formal statutory requirements, or requirements in the foundations articles, or other requirements regarding form and invitation, time limits, and for the topics discussed in this meeting.

The call is quorate. From now on, motions can be passed with the agreement of a simple majority of those remaining present. The majority threshold is currently 4.

The meeting commenced at 17:05 UTC / 18:05 Berlin time

A. Public section

  • Community Q&A: 10 minutes

    • when is the Membership Committee planning board elections? (Thorsten)
      • email went to members (Andreas)
      • has to be published publicly (Thorsten)
      • some cases to still be evaluated (Andreas)
      • not understand the logic behind this (Simon)
  • Budget 2026: 5 minutes

    • spreadsheet shared earlier (Florian)
      • look into hirings
      • several roles to fill
      • conferences, perhaps lodging provided for Pordenone, so cutting down on hotel costs this year
    • Python thing expanded too (Ilmari)
    • buckets for various things (Florian)
    • receiving donations via PIX via SPI, costs? (Eliane)
    • costs will be for SPI (Sophie)
      • they have to check the investment
    • same with fees for, for example, cryptocurrencies (Florian)
      • handle it like a commission for their service
    • how to have community more involved in budget? (Eliane)
    • reached out already, don’t know of any blockers (Florian)
      • kind of too late to make substantial changes to 2026 budget
      • small changes possible
      • substantial amount of events
      • Bugzilla as another example
    • local entity is needed to receive PIX money (Simon)
    • some times money transfer is challenging (Florian)
      • best practices from others organizations/projects
    • necessary steps were done to get the funds from Brazil into TDF
      • not the fault of TDF
    • barriers of the money flow to Europe (Simon)
    • e.g. Wikipedia, Mozilla (Eliane)
    • fundamental problem to be solved (Simon)
    • has any project solved this? We could copy their solution
    • blockers from central bank from Brazil (Florian)
      • working currently on Wero
  • Update on developer hirings: 5 minutes

    • contracts not yet signed (Florian)
      • for scripting: France, person hired via employment agency
      • several small details missing
      • for Base: Greece-based person
      • perhaps move to a preselected list of feasible countries
  • looking for onboarding the new team members

The public section ended at 17:30 UTC / 18:30 Berlin time

B. Trustee/members-only section

  • Nothing for this meeting

C. Board- and MC-only section

[REDACTED: boary-only URL with draft]

  • Corporate tax filing 2024

    • explaining the current situation (Florian)
    • [REDACTED: 14 lines of tax discussion]
  • [REDACTED: 43 lines of discussion about the current legal situation]

The next meeting will be on April 7

The meeting ended at 18:15 UTC / 19:15 Berlin time.

Eliane Domingos de Sousa (Session chair)
Mike Saunders (Keeper of the minutes)