5.1   Communication Status

B. Curtin, Communications Officer, reported on continued activities from last month. He reported:

Brian is planning an email campaign with the Outreach & Education committee, and the PSF blog may be included in the resources discussed there.

Brian also reported on the new activities for the month. He said:

Two small posts went up this month. One announcing Steve's departure from the chairman position, and a belated announcement of the Q1 Community Service Awards.

Now that the RFP is available, it was announced on the Facebook and Google+ pages.

He reported the following information on the planned activities for next month:

1. Some form of announcement has been on the status reports of a few groups lately, and with the website RFP being announced this week, I will be putting together a "newsletter"-style announcement for the user group lists.
2. Via Steve Holden, we have some information to put together a story about Python's use in schools from David Coopersmith along with a student of his named Isaac. The same story involves some praise for the trademark committee, which may or may not go into the same post.
3. Post information about this summer's PyGames contest for students (http://www.summerpygames.org/)

As far as the ongoing projects for the month are concerned, he reported:

1. Brian Curtin is working on a post about the video equipment purchased by the PSF and how it has been used to record conference talks and other events.
2. Recruiting other people to help write for the blog.

For tabled activities, B. Curtin said:

1. PyCon video equipment loan/rental program post

   There was some discussion of offering the PyCon video equipment to PUGs for their meetings, but the mechanism to do it isn't in place, yet.

5.2   Marketing Material

M.A. Lemburg, Marketing Material Project Manager, provided a summary of his work. He said:

The project is lead by Marc-André Lemburg who is in contact with the people behind the Plone brochure created by the German Zope User Group (DZUG): Jan Ulrich Hasecke and Armin Stroß-Radschinski.

We started working on the concept a few weeks after World Plone Day in April 2010 and had several meetings and conference calls to take the idea forward.

For more details, please see the brochure support site at:

http://brochure.getpython.info/learn-more

Marc-André also reported on the progress of his project when he said:

We have made progress on getting the layout of the brochure finalized and will actively start a sponsorship campaign once we have the final version ready for public consumption, that is: finished the layout and received approval from the content providers.

In order to help with one-to-one marketing the brochure we will have the remaining teaser versions of the brochure available at the EuroPython PSF Booth.

Here's the link to the PDF of the teaser, in case you missed it: http://brochure.getpython.info/media/flyer/python-brochure-pycon-us-2012-teaser-booklet/view

The online payment solution has been up since the start of PyCon US in March. We do have a few ad and reference sponsor signups, but no where near enough to start going to print. Most of the signups are from Germany. If the US folks don't hurry up, the reference list will be filled with German IT shops :-)

If you are interested in signing up as reference sponsor, please contact us or visit us at the EuroPython conference to get a first hand intro to the brochure.

Once we have the sponsors all signed up, we'll go to print with the brochure and have it distributed to the ad sponsors, reference sponsors, subscription sponsors and Python conferences, user groups, etc. via on-demand shipping.

If you are the lead of a local user group, conference, educational institution and interested in receiving boxes with the brochure delivered to you at no additional costs, please contact the PSF or our team directly via brochure at getpython.info.

5.3   Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront

The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, reported on progress for the month:

"The project is currently on hold, since the team members don't have time to put into this."

According to M. A. Lemburg, there is nothing new to report for this month. He said:

"I'm beginning to believe that doing a sprint of sorts would likely be the best way to move this forward, but I currently don't have more cycles to spare (the brochure project has turned out to be very work intense), so can't lead such an effort at the moment."

In terms of having any issues surrounding his project, M. A. Lemburg reported no issues except one: he said, he just does not have enough time to devote to his Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront project.

13. 1. Lemburg also reported on the future plans for this project:

"Check to see whether a trigger based approach to S3 syncing wouldn't be easier to implement right from the start."

5.4   PyCon Chair

J. Noller, PyCon Chair, provided us with information surrounding the current status of the PyCon US affairs. He reported on the interim period at the closing of PyCon US 2012 and the gearing up of PyCon US 2013:

"Not much to report this month: We are in the process of closing out the 2012 budget/books so the foundation can recognize the revenue from the conference. We are in the discussion phase of 2013 based on what we learned from 2012, and I am ramping up sponsorship discussions for 2013 behind the scenes.

Until the books are closed for 2012 I am not comfortable with moving forward on 2013.

I have a larger blog post planned to discuss the conference overall - with over 2300 attendees, the conference was a wild success by any measure and feedback has been positive modulo complaints about the food."

5.5   Sprint Committee (SC)

J. Noller &/or B. Curtin, Sprint Committee Chair, reported that there were no issues or blockages surrounding any sprint activities for the month.

As far as the continued activities from last month, he reported:

None

On his report of the new activities for the month, He reported:

We heard back from the Rochester Institute of Technology group who sprinted last month that they had much less people than they planned, so they passed on our sponsorship in plans of going for a bigger event in July or August.

We sponsored another sprint with OpenHatch in San Francisco for which we just submitted the reimbursement request. We also received a reimbursement request for the t-shirt purchase from a PyLadies-related sprint that occurred in Poland some months back.

In terms of the new activities planned for next month. He wrote:

I'll cover this in the Communications status, but I'm rolling up the planned Sprints outreach into a mega-PSF newsletter type thing.

As far as the ongoing projects and the tabled activities for this committee, he reported:

None

5.6   Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

A. Riley, Google Summer of Code (GSoC), reported on the issues and/or blockages this program is currently faced with. He said:

1. A handful of students requested by mentors did not fulfill the required first patch. I worked with some of them in the final hours of selections to get this fixed, students who did not respond or were unable to do this were removed from consideration. No exceptions were made.
2. We had three students selected who were also selected by other Google Summer of Code mentoring organizations, all three were for GNU Mailman. Terri Oda (Mailman's lead mentor this year) negotiated with the mentors for the other organizations to keep all three.

Arc also reported on the continued activities from last month when he wrote:

1. Student selections finished. Despite low application number this year I worked with the team at Google to get us an additional 6 slots (total 31) beyond our initial allocation of 25. Almost every student requested by a project under the PSF which met our requirements was approved.

1. Riley reported on new activities for the month. He said:
   1. Community bonding period for accepted students. This ends today (5/20) as students prepare to begin their projects on Monday May 21st.
   2. Updating http://soc.python.org/ for this year's students, this should be complete this week.

As far as the planned activities for next month, he reported:

1. Keeping an eye on student blogs and email for any problems that arise as students are now working with their mentors.

Additionally, Arc reported on "ongoing projects" with the GSoC project and on "tabled activities", respectively:

5.7   Ongoing Projects

Summer of Code 2012 will be ongoing until August.

5.8   Tabled Activities

1. Discussion with rejected mentors regarding why they were not accepted this year.