DSF Board 2024 Elections โ€“ New board members ๐Ÿ‘‹

Following our
2024 DSF Board Election Results, here are quick introductions from our two new board members, Sarah
Abderemane and Thibaud Colas, elected for a two-year term for 2024-2025.

Collage: Sarah on the left, smiling, in the Versailles Hall of Mirrors. Thibaud on the right, in a field, looking in the distance with a boy on his shoulders.

Sarah Abderemane

Sarah Abderemane, also known as sabderemane, is a software developer in
France. She currently works at Kraken Tech, part of the Octopus Energy group,
contributing to solutions to climate change. She works mainly on the backend,
but also likes to work on the frontend in her spare time.

She organizes the
Django Paris
meetup and is an active member of the Django community: she is one of the
organizers of the
Djangonaut Space
program, a member of the

Django Accessibility team

and maintainer of
djangoproject.com.

Outside of open source and work, she is passionate about dance, likes
customizing things like mechanical keyboards, and loves to travel to discover
new cultures.

Social media and blog:

Blog:
sarahabd.com

Mastodon:
@[email protected]

Twitter:
@sabderemane_

LinkedIn:
@sarahabd

Thibaud Colas

Thibaud Colas (pronounced /tee-bo/) is a developer based in the UK, working for Torchbox on the
Wagtail
open source CMS as part of the core team. For Wagtail, Thibaud also
contributes to efforts around accessibility, developer relations, as well as
participation to programs like Outreachy and Google Summer of Code.

For Django, Thibaud has been involved with organizing and volunteering at
events like
Django Girls
and
DjangoCon Europe. More recently, he helped start the accessibility team, and has joined the
Djangonaut Space program as a navigator.

Outside of work, Thibaud spends most of his time with two little tornadoes
that are 5 and 2 years old. He also enjoys watching sumo and baking macarons.
To learn more about Thibaud, check out his personal website
thib.me
,
@thibaud_colas
on Twitter/X,
@[email protected]
on Mastodon.

Meeting our new board members

Both Sarah and Thibaud are active on the Django Forum, come say hi in their introduction thread!

They will also be taking part in a mini Django contributions sprint and lead discussions on the โ€œFuture of Djangoโ€ as part of Django Cologneโ€™s 50th Meetup.