PSF Meeting Minutes for Oct. 17, 2012
A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat beginning at 20:00 CEST/ 14:00 EDT, on October 17 2012. Van Lindberg presided over the meeting. Ewa Jodlowska prepared the minutes.
All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor-Y‚opposed-N‚abstentions-A; e.g. "5-1-2" means "5 in favor, 1 opposed, and 2 abstentions").
Contents
1 Attendance
The following members of the Board of Directors (8 of ll) were present at the meeting: Van Lindberg, Andrew Kuchling, Tim Peters, Brian Curtin, Doug Napoleone, Martin v. Löwis, David Mertz, and Jesse Noller. Also in attendance were Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer) and Ewa Jodlowska (Secretary/Administrator).
2 Minutes of Past Meetings
The 26 September 2012 Board meeting minutes were voted on and approved.
RESOLVED, that we approve the minutes at http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-October/019433.html as representing a true and accurate record of the September 26 2012 meeting.
Approved, 5-3-0.
3 Votes Taken Between Meetings
There were no votes taken between meetings.
4 Votes Taken Over Email
There were no votes taken over email.
5 Treasurer Report
Treasurer Report October 2012 -(September Report): No Report was sent
6 Progress Reports
Pydotorg/Website Redesign: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-October/019479.html
PyCon Chair Report: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-October/019478.html
PSF Event Coordinator Report: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-October/019460.html
Administrator Report: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-October/019459.html
Marketing Material Report: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-October/019506.html
Community Relations Report: http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2012-October/019507.html
7 Kivy Funding
RESOLVED, that the PSF provide grant funding to the core developers of Kivy in the amount of $5,000 USD. This grant request is for porting Kivy to Python 3.3.
Approved, 7-1-0.
8 PyData Sponsorship
RESOLVED, that the PSF sponsor the PyData conference in the amount of $1,500 USD.
Approved, 8-0-0
9 Other Business
9.1 Porting Packages to Py3
Van Lindberg proposed the idea of possibly hiring one or two programmers in the next year to port packages to Python 3. There was a discussion rather this would be a good idea. The majority of the board +1 the idea.
9.2 Sam Berger
Ewa Jodlowska was approached by Larry Berger (Sam's father) during PyConZA about furthering Sam's programming education. It has been decided that PyCon will sponsor his trip to the US to take part in the Young Coders tutorial and conference.
9.3 PyCon India Funds
David Mertz took care of this over email.
10 Adjournment
Van Lindberg adjourned the meeting at 19:00 CEST/ 13:00 EDT.