Voting AsyncAPI 2026 budget

[fmvilas]

Hey @asyncapi/tsc_members! It's that time of the year again when we have to approve the budget. Please take some time to review it and vote below.

Some highlights:

• Thulie's compensation has been adjusted as she's moving to the UK 🎉
• We've cut expenses in (mostly) everything that's not related to making our maintainers's lives easier. Especially, we're not going to be running the mentorship programs on our own money but instead we'll rely on GSoC and LFX Mentorship.
• We're getting less money from sponsors so we should focus on getting more income during this year.

Link to the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gtKxVDBzQ7GWL6eCXNqdiR0F8gzXcQlxHUpdGVYNNK0/edit?gid=1685731390#gid=1685731390

Happy new year! 🥂

[fmvilas]

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[AayushSaini101]

If we are not currently running the AsyncAPI Mentorship Program, and depending on the GSoC and LFX Mentorship, we need to strengthen our mentorship committee by adding more members. @thulieblack is already having lots of work, and @AceTheCreator is the only person who has handled all the mentorship program.

At the start of this year, we need to create a strong committee for smooth running of the mentorship program because now we are dependent on the external programs for the growth of our community, which requires more work, @fmvilas, can i open a new Voting process for this, ?

[Shurtu-gal]

Should we look for alternatives to mailchimp? IMO it is currently more expensive then others.

There was a brief discussion on same in #1739 which could be continued. Currently for TSC notification mailjet is used.

If we had some metrics on outgoing emails it would be easier to decide I suppose.

[derberg]

@AayushSaini101 AsyncAPI Maintainership is there, just funding is based on external programs instead of ours. Look into https://www.asyncapi.com/docs/community/030-project-vision-strategy-goals/2026_Community_Goals and S4 strategy.

But yes, it is still a big and demanding project and having a working group responsible for it would be amazing. We definitely need to discuss details during community meeting as so far we had approach "do not organize official working group before you have an actual group working together regularly"

[fmvilas]

Yeah, having a working group would be amazing @AayushSaini101.

Should we look for alternatives to mailchimp? IMO it is currently more expensive then others.

@Shurtu-gal I was actually going to suggest that we switch to another provider because it's too expensive. We can basically have it for free with https://kit.com. I'll open an issue.

[fmvilas]

@Shurtu-gal dropping it here: #2223.

[thulieblack]

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So far 43.90% of the users with binding vote are in favor and 0.00% are against (passing threshold: 51%).

Summary

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Binding votes (21)

User	Vote	Timestamp
AayushSaini101	In favor	2026-01-07 10:56:21.0 +00:00:00
Adi-204	In favor	2026-01-08 9:21:40.0 +00:00:00
Florence-Njeri	In favor	2026-01-08 10:19:11.0 +00:00:00
JBBianchi	In favor	2026-01-07 10:58:09.0 +00:00:00
Mayaleeeee	In favor	2026-01-09 16:11:28.0 +00:00:00
Shurtu-gal	In favor	2026-01-07 11:48:39.0 +00:00:00
Souvikns	In favor	2026-01-08 10:06:39.0 +00:00:00
aayushmau5	In favor	2026-01-08 9:11:50.0 +00:00:00
akshatnema	In favor	2026-01-09 17:41:52.0 +00:00:00
cdavernas	In favor	2026-01-08 9:10:25.0 +00:00:00
dalelane	Abstain	2026-01-08 13:09:00.0 +00:00:00
derberg	In favor	2026-01-07 12:07:21.0 +00:00:00
fmvilas	In favor	2026-01-07 10:50:55.0 +00:00:00
ivangsa	Abstain	2026-01-09 6:31:55.0 +00:00:00
kennethaasan	In favor	2026-01-08 9:34:09.0 +00:00:00
magicmatatjahu	In favor	2026-01-08 9:12:17.0 +00:00:00
nashjain	In favor	2026-01-07 15:47:01.0 +00:00:00
princerajpoot20	In favor	2026-01-11 5:55:52.0 +00:00:00
rcoppen	Abstain	2026-01-08 9:45:39.0 +00:00:00
vishvamsinh28	In favor	2026-01-07 14:31:49.0 +00:00:00
whitlockjc	In favor	2026-01-08 14:36:19.0 +00:00:00
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Non-binding votes (5)

User	Vote	Timestamp
Varadraj75	In favor	2026-01-07 11:38:06.0 +00:00:00
Sam-61s	In favor	2026-01-07 12:47:35.0 +00:00:00
akshat-nema	In favor	2026-01-09 10:09:52.0 +00:00:00
Rajesh-Nagarajan-11	In favor	2026-01-09 20:20:42.0 +00:00:00
sankalpmtellur	In favor	2026-01-12 5:19:27.0 +00:00:00