Accord Project Tech WG – 2025-01-30 – TSC Elections, Edinburgh Meetup & GSoC 2025

Recording of the Accord Project Technology Working Group meeting on 30 January 2025.

Topics covered:
• The TSC voted to expand membership from six to seven seats and elected all seven nominees — Martin, Matt, Jonathan, Diana, Dan, Tom, and Nile — by acclamation, bypassing a formal election.
• Jonathan Lautenschlager, a senior engineer and Concerto maintainer at DocuSign, was introduced as the newest TSC member.
• The group discussed plans for an in-person working meetup at Codebase Edinburgh, a free venue offering space for 50–60 people, targeting the end of March 2025.
• Diana presented the draft Google Summer of Code 2025 ideas list, including a Rust validator for Concerto, a linter, a decorator DSL, and an AI co-pilot/template playground integration, with the org application deadline set for February 11th.
• The group noted that to attract four or more GSoC students, the ideas list should be expanded to eight to ten well-defined projects, with mentor recruitment prioritized both inside and outside DocuSign.

The Accord Project is an open source initiative under the Linux Foundation building open standards and tools for smart legal contracts. Learn more at accordproject.org