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@sarahboyce sarahboyce commented Nov 17, 2025

Fixes #2340

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Did a poll on Mastodon and "Foundation" was the most popular with 28 votes, "DSF" had 2, and "About" also had 2 votes.

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Makes sense to me. But given this is a content level change, I am not sure if someone else needs to approve or share their opinion on this as well.

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I see we got a thumbs up from Paulo on the issue, let's maybe aim for 1 more board member to thumbs up (cc @django/dsf-board )

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knyghty commented Nov 17, 2025

I wonder if we should maybe spell it out as "foundation" but yes I have wanted to change this wording for a while.

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Foundation was my other suggestion 😁
I think both work, happy to go for whatever is most popular 👍

@sarahboyce sarahboyce changed the title Renamed "About" in header to "DSF". Renamed "About" in header to "Foundation". Nov 18, 2025
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Did a poll on Mastodon and "Foundation" was the most popular with 28 votes, "DSF" had 2, and "About" also had 2 votes. So updated the PR to rename to "Foundation"

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SaptakS commented Nov 18, 2025

Makes sense to me. I am happy to merge this if there is no objection.

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👍 Looks great!

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Python.org goes with PSF, so DSF felt natural. The trouble is that foundation reads differently in a tech context than in a legal one. I don’t love nonprofit either (but it's less confusing), and that’s why the DSF, while not as popular, feels less confusing.

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https://mastodon.social/@sarahboyce/115566516022543101
The poll is now closed 44 votes for Foundation, 9 votes for DSF, and 3 votes to leave as About.
Some commentary includes concerns that folks won't know what the DSF is, some suggestions to have 'The DSF' or 'The Foundation'
Note that Rails also uses 'Foundation': https://rubyonrails.org/ and our url itself is 'foundation'

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Rename "About" to "DSF" or "Foundation"

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