PSF Meeting Minutes for Jan. 29, 2019
A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Group Conference Call via phone and Internet Relay Chat/Slack beginning at 13:00 UTC (GMT/Zulu), on October 30, 2018. Betsy Waliszewski took notes/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
- 2 Board and Staff Reports
- 2.1 Ewa Jodlowska
- 2.2 Betsy Waliszewski
- 2.3 Ernest W. Durbin III
- 2.4 Kurt Kaiser
- 2.5 Phyllis Dobbs
- 2.6 Jackie Augustine
- 2.7 Naomi Ceder
- 2.8 Van Lindberg
- 2.9 Jackie Kazil
- 2.10 Eric Holscher
- 2.11 Lorena Mesa
- 2.12 Katie McLaughlin
- 2.13 Thomas Wouters
- 2.14 Kushal Das
- 2.15 Anna Ossowski
- 2.16 Christopher Neugebauer
- 2.17 Jeff Triplett
- 2.18 Marlene Mhangami
- 3 Work Group Reports
- 4 Votes Approved by Working Groups
- 5 Other Business / Discussions
- 6 Meeting Adjournment
1 Attendance
The following members of the Board of Directors (12 of 13) were present at the meeting: Lorena Mesa, Naomi Ceder, Thomas Wouters, Katie McLaughlin, Marlene Mhangami, Eric Holscher, Anna Ossowski, Jeff Triplett, Van Lindberg, Kushal Das, Jackie Kazil, and Ewa Jodlowska.
Betsy Waliszewski (Event Planner and Administrator), Phyllis Dobbs (Controller/Assistant Treasurer Accountant), Jackie Augustine (Event Manager), and Ernest W. Durbin III (Director of Infrastructure) were also in attendance.
1.1 Consent Agenda Resolutions
Vote on the minutes of the previous meeting:
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the minutes at https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-important/2018-October/001892.html as representing a true and accurate record of the October 30, 2018 meeting
Vote on fiscal sponsorship items: PyTexas created a 501(c)(c) a few years ago and did not realize that the PSF had a balance of PyTexas funds on hand. Dustin Ingram requested that the funds be transferred, which the PSF did on 12/04/18. Therefore, the PSF staff recommends the following resolution:
RESOLVED, the Python Software Foundation approved fiscal sponsorship of PyTexas by a June 20, 2012 resolution of the Board. Subsequently, PyTexas became the PyTexas Foundation, a 501(c)(3) entity, which is engages in substantially similar activities of the Python Software Foundation’s fiscal sponsorship of PyTexas. Pursuant to a discussion between Dustin Ingram of PyTexas Foundation and Phyllis Dobbs, Controller of Python Software Foundation, Python Software Foundation resolves to end its fiscal sponsorship of PyTexas effective November 29, 2018.
Two groups, DesertPy and PyCarolinas have not responded by the November 30, 2018 due date, so the PSF staff recommends the following resolutions:
RESOLVED, the Python Software Foundation terminates its fiscal sponsorship of DesertPy due to lack of fiscal sponsorship agreement effective November 30, 2018.
RESOLVED, the Python Software Foundation terminates its fiscal sponsorship of PyCarolinas due to lack of fiscal sponsorship agreement effective November 30, 2018.
Signing on behalf of the PSF:
RESOLVED, that the Executive Director of the PSF is authorized to sign contracts on behalf of the PSF per limitations listed in their employment agreement
RESOLVED, that the Director of Infrastructure of the PSF is authorized to sign IT related contracts on behalf of the PSF up to a commitment of $30,000. If higher, the Director of Infrastructure needs approval from the Executive Director
RESOLVED, that the Event Manager of the PSF is authorized to sign event related contracts on behalf of the PSF up to a commitment of $30,000. If higher, the Event Manager needs approval from the Executive Director
RESOLVED, that the Finance Controller of the PSF is authorized to sign Fiscal Sponsorship agreements and contracts on behalf of the Fiscal Sponsoree up to a commitment of $30,000. If higher, the Finance Controller needs approval from the Executive Director.
Translations Work Group Charter
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the Translation Work Group's charter as stated here: https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-important/2019-January/002194.html
Continuation of PSF Ambassador Program in Eastern Africa
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation grant $10,000 USD to the Python Ambassador Program in East Africa for 2019
Approved 12-0-1
2 Board and Staff Reports
2.1 Ewa Jodlowska
- PyCon
- Continue to train with Event Manager on several PyCon tasks such as adding new CMS pages, continue discussions about future registration improvements, PyLadies auction, Hatchery, RFPs
- Attended bi-weekly stand ups
- Contributed to F&B discussions and final decision call
- Helped with keynotes by doing research and submitting proposed keynoters
- Attended a site visit in Pittsburgh with new Event Manager and helped on-board Event Manager for future site visits
- Helped select the two dinner venues for 2020
- Finalized 2019 room allocations and updating capacities accordingly
- Started the process for the 2019 5k
- Started the process for AV and addressed 2018 issues via call
- Attended a call with CTE to go over upcoming registration/housing needs
- Attended a call with convention center to go over lunch possibilities and trying to make the Newcomer Orientation to work in the Plenary room.
- Helped gather missing w-9 forms for Controller
- Reviewed Passkey and reviewed Travel Pittsburgh housing option
- actively reaching out to staff volunteers for 2019 roles/responsibilities & sent out welcome email
- Helped review Hatchery Program Proposals and voted on proposals
- Helped review and edit Education Summit blog
- Helping to review 2022/23 RFP questions and proposals
- Helped review contracts for new sponsors
- Helping coordinate two Young Coder sessions
- Attended two financial aid on-boarding meetings for new committee members and helped answer questions; helped with on-boarding for Accessibility
- PSF
- Monthly meeting with board Chairperson (in-person & via phone)
- Finalized agenda for November in-person board meeting, shared it with board, printed it for onsite; attended two-day in-person board meeting
- Reviewed financials for the November in-person and wrote up a summary for the board
- Reviewed the 2019 request from the East Africa Python Ambassador program and put together a recommendation for the board
- Phoned in to accounting interviews with Treasurer and Controller
- Keeping up with the governance discussions & following discussion on python-dev, python-ideas, python committers, and on discuss.python.org
- Continue to assist General Counsel with TMs and legal emails; assisted the TM committee
- Helped review contracts for new sponsors
- Setup an agenda for and participated in a staff meeting to go over early 2019 goals
- Helped Core Devs finalize a place for their 2019 Core Dev Sprint
- Helped to create the agenda for consultant meeting to go over fundraising. Attended that meeting
- Created and distributed the first PSF quarterly newsletter
- Proposed several housekeeping changes for who gets to sign contracts on behalf of the PSF
- Helped create the Request for Ideas proposal for the Python in Education board committee and collecting the responses we receive
- Helped review PSF blogs submitted by blog team
- Helped to revise the end of year sponsor letter for Event Coordinator and then turned it into a blog post
- Re-evaluated new finance team compensation and then submitted a revised proposal to the Executive Board
- Started to review the Developers Survey Results
- Worked on agenda with Chair and drafted up future agendas
- Attended planning meeting with Scientific Work Group and assisted them with SciPy grant request
- Started to work on my talk for PyCon Belarus
- Started to work on draft for advisory board/junior board
- Wrote up summary for the 2019 budget with Controller
- Continue to help review documents and other drafts written by staff
- Continue to log the fellow member nominations; ran the voting for Q4; recently published the blog for Q4 Fellows
- Continue to manage the Grants WG and PSF board grants and the research necessary for all
- Continue to answer general PSF email
- Continue to participate in board discussions
- Continue to review time sheets
- Continue to meet with Event Coordinator, Event Manager, Finance Controller, and IT Director regularly on calls and regular communication via Slack
2.2 Betsy Waliszewski
- PSF
- Sent out PSF statements
- Continued to help manage the Jobs, Marketing, and Sponsor working groups.
- Continued routine tasks of invoicing, sending out statements, and keeping records up-to-date.
- Continued to support the grants WG by sending out notifications and minuting resolutions.
- Continued taking notes at board meetings, posting minutes and approved resolutions, notifying grant recipients, as well as recording contributor forms and self-certification.
- Managed new sponsor applications with the sponsor work group.
- Continuing to manage social media presence through Sprout Social.
- Completed year-end fundraiser. Total raised: $26,350.
- Job Board - continuing to move forward with updates to job board functionality.
- Completed infographic project with devNGO to be used online and in print.
- Continuing to work on a refresh of the Python Success Story page (and associated case studies). Continuing to do outreach to get new stories to add to the new page.
- Wrote and sent out end-of-year sponsor letter.
- Completed fundraising plan for 2019, including plan for corporate collaboration. Plan includes 2 campaigns for 2019.
- Worked on proposed changes to donation and sponsorship pages on python.org.
- Worked with designer on new sticker sheet.
- PyCon 2019
- Continued to do outreach for new sponsors
- Participated in regular planning meetings with the team
- Maintained PyCon sponsor and PSF sponsor spreadsheets
- Invoiced new PyCon sponsors and sent statements for overdue invoices
- Finalized job fair floor plan and update to expo hall floor plan.
- Worked on F&B plans, including new options for Friday/Saturday lunch
- Finalized venue for the PyCon staff dinner. Working on menu.
- Helped find a mentor for one of the Young Coder Sessions.
- Sent out “Hotel Pirate” warning to sponsors.
- Sent tweet reminder to sponsors. Created spreadsheet to manage sponsor tweets.
- Worked with designers on new PSF pins and stickers
2.3 Ernest W. Durbin III
- CPython Governance Election Administration
- Support for new Python Core Release Manager (Łukasz)
- PyPI PRs/user support/incident management
- Open Technology Fund Request for Proposals
- Migration of infrastructure out of Rackspace => Heroku/DigitalOcean/Google Cloud
- us.pycon.org site work supporting PyCon 2019
- Evaluation of CRM and membership platforms
2.4 Kurt Kaiser
No report submitted.
2.5 Phyllis Dobbs
- Onboarding
- Set up myriad online accounts for PSF business
- Learn about process for recording donations in QuickBooks Online
- Learn about CiviCRM and Drupal as they relate to psfmember.org
- Learn about CVS and access to the psfb.org server
- Helped Kurt identify duplicated/missing acknowledgements from CTE PyCon/PyLadies donations
2.6 Jackie Augustine
PyCon
- Registration Management
- Registration System, Review, Edits, testing
- Registration System Launch
- Housing Block creation for Registration site
- Daily registration review and confirmation sent, registration emails
- Ongoing edits and updates to reports from registration system
- Blogs
- Registration Launch
- CFP Reminder
- Education Summit
- PyLadies Auction
- Emails
- CFP Organizer/Member Group email
- Financial Aid email to those exceeding limit
- RFP sent to 12 potential sites for 2022/23
- PyCon Volunteer Staff email
- Mentorship Program
- Work on Mentorship Program
- Mentor/Mentee draft emails
- Mentor/Mentee Survey review and updates
- Hatchery Program
- Review of proposals and voting
- Follow up email to selected proposals
- continued work on space and equipment needs
- Calls
- Bi-Weekly Pycon Staff Standup Calls
- Financial Aid onboarding calls
- Weekly Standup with Executive Director beginning January
- Demo on possible housing system
- AV team discussing updates for 2019 conference
- CTE regarding items needed in near future
- Cleveland Convention Center regarding Tutorial Lunch location
- VisitPittsburgh regarding housing
- 2022/23 RFP Recipients
- Site Visits
- Site visit to Pittsburgh, view event space and offsite dinner venues
- Site visit to Cleveland, Hilton tour, tasting for new lunch menu
- Attended a CLEpy meetup
- PyCon 2019
- Work with vendors for 2019, Hilton, Convention Center, childcare, AV
- Worked on venue for PyLadies Auction
- Sponsor Promo Code/Registration assistance
- Introduced to Committees and Work Groups, continued involvement in many committees
- PyCon 2020
- Review of Pittsburgh hotel block numbers
- Contracts with Pittsburgh overflow hotels
- Reviewed and requested contracts for offsite dinner events
- PyCon 2022/23
- Research of potential cities and locations
- Follow up with Visitor Bureaus and Sales contacts
- Review of return bids and follow up questions
- Documents
- Hotel room yearly comparison, percentage of attendee bookings yearly
- Registration Flow document for in-house system, conference registration, event registration, housing
- Hatchery proposal sheet for reviewers
- Staff Page update on PyCon and PSF sites
- OnBoarding
- 2-In person meetings with Executive Director
- QBO review
- PyLadies Auction review
- Discussed Site Visits, items to look for, registration area
- Review of CiviCRM Member system
2.7 Naomi Ceder
- Ran November board meeting
- 1:1 calls and meetings with Executive director
- Calls with board members and staff on various issues
- Work with education committee on call for ideas
- Work with translations WG to develop charter
- Chair of Hatchery program for PyCon - managed submissions and selections
- Co-Chair of Charlas Track - helped manage talk selection process, reviewed proposals
- Managed promotion of Operations Manager to Executive Director
- Gave keynote at PythonDay Mexico, discussions with Mexican community members
- Attended ChiPy/Chicago PyLadies winter social and ChiPy mentorship/project night
2.8 Van Lindberg
No report submitted.
2.9 Jackie Kazil
- Working with others to stand up Education Committee
- Drafted Python in Education Committee's call for ideas
- Chair Maintainers Track for PyCon
- Standing up Finance Committee
- Talk Co-Chair responsibilities of PyCon
- PyLadies group general maintenance, admission request, etc
- Normal board activities
2.10 Eric Holscher
- Attended board meeting
- Signed up for code of conduct training which I missed previously
- Kept up with the normal discussions on the mailing list
2.11 Lorena Mesa
- Helped draft the Python in Education request for ideas and solicited input from educations in Chicagoland area to advise on this
- Acted as support for the Communications team with Marlene as Communications co-chair (e.g. reviewing blog content, helping assign articles)
- Finalized Translations WG charter, continued to seek out members to apply
- Reviewed PyCon talked in capacity as a member of the PyCon Programs team
- Continued dialog on the future of PyLadies and seeking input on PyLadies PSF Work Group Charter
- Advised in the Hatchery program for PyCan (e.g. reviewing submissions)
- Organized ChiPy/Chicago PyLadies winter social and PyLadies 2019 calendar
2.12 Katie McLaughlin
- No active engagement on PSF tasks during the end of the year.
- Initial work towards starting up organizing PyCon AU 2019
2.13 Thomas Wouters
Continued administering #python on Freenode. Participated in Python governance discussions and voting.
2.14 Kushal Das
- Grants working group discussions and related work
- Planning for Python related activities in a few conferences in the
coming months * Initial pinging different projects/people for development sprints * Co-ordination with the psf-gsoc administration team
2.15 Anna Ossowski
- Attended the November PSF Board meeting in Chicago
- Spoke to Queen Mary University London students about Python and the PSF
- Hosted the PyLadies London December meetup in the Elastic London office
- Became a PyLadies London organizer in January
- Call with Chris and Jeff to discuss Code of Conduct workgroup updates
- Call with Ewa, Naomi, and Jeff to discuss director duties, PSF future, legal questions
2.16 Christopher Neugebauer
- Worked with Naomi to investigate board-level process lapses in the
Code of Conduct process - Worked with the board to unblock the Code of Conduct drafting process - Attended linux.conf.au 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand - Coordinated with Sage Sharp and conference representatives to facilitate PSF-sponsored Incident Response workshop.
2.17 Jeff Triplett
- Chaired DEFNA Board of Directors November, December, and January meetings
- Worked on DjangoCon US (closing, budget, new organization goals, end-of-year, blog posts)
- Meeting with Naomi, Ewa, and Anna
- Meeting with Chris and Anna to discuss Conduct WG status
- Reviewed Conduct WG draft response
- Normal Board activities
2.18 Marlene Mhangami
- Continued coordination of blog posts by PSF bloggers for CS awards. I also wrote a post for Chukudwi Nwachuku's award.
- Reached out to potential WG members for the Translation work group, and continued communication with Lorena and Naomi on the work group charter.
- Continued to chair the PyCon Africa board in planning for this year's conference.
3 Work Group Reports
3.1 Marketing
- Continuing to work on goals and a marketing plan for upcoming projects.
- Completed recurring giving campaign
- Began work on a fundraising plan for 2019
3.2 Sponsors
Continue to receive and evaluate PSF sponsor applications. Reviewed and approved 4 sponsors at the iron level.
3.3 Jobs
Continuing to work on improvements to the functionality of the job board to make the experience better for companies using the service.
3.4 Trademarks
Reviewed approximately 28 trademark inquiries including Python book requests, logo usage, and commercial usage in December and January.
3.5 Packaging
Open Technology Fund RFP is complete, reviewing proposals and hope to begin work in February.
3.6 Infrastructure
No Working Group activity, Chair (Ernest W. Durbin III) would like to reassess and revive WG with outreach and onboarding for new volunteers.
3.7 Fellows
Completed vote on Q4 members, published blog on newest Fellows (http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/01/python-software-foundation-fellow.html), collecting nominations for Q1 2019
3.8 Cuban Pythonistas
None at this time.
3.9 Approved Via Email
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation contract with Otter Tech for the amount of $3,500 USD in order to host a community incident response training session for regional Python conferences
Approved 13-0-0, November 20, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the Q3 2018 Community Service Award to Mariatta Wijaya for her contributions to CPython, diversity efforts for the Python Core Contributor team, and her work on PyCascades.
Approved 13-0-0, December 10, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation award the Q3 2018 Community Service Award to Alex Gaynor for his contributions to the Python Community and the Python Software Foundation. Alex previously served as a PSF Director in 2015-2016. He currently serves as an Infrastructure Staff member and contributes to legacy PyPI and the next generation warehouse and has helped legacy warehouse in security (disabling unsupported OpenID) and cutting bandwidth costs by compressing 404 images.
Approved 13-0-0, December 10, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation grant $10,000 USD to Women Who Code to develop Python resources for learning and growing skills that can be replicated around the world
Approved 13-0-0, January 8, 2019
4 Votes Approved by Working Groups
Below are resolutions approved by the various PSF Working Groups since the August 21, 2018 board meeting:
4.1 Grants
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve via director's allowance $200 to help fund the Django Girls Rivers 2018 Meetups happening in Harcourt, Nigeria.
Approved October 1, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $1000 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Pelotas, Brazil November 10, 2018
Approved 6-0-0, October 31, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $480 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Leipzig, Germany November 24, 2018
Approved 6-0-0, October 31, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $5000 USD to the "Cycle of AI Saturdays" training happening in Abeokuta, Nigeria from August 2018 through January 2019
Denied 0-6-0, October 31, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $398 USD (~350 Euro) to the PyDay BCN 2018 event happening in Barcelona, Spain November 24, 2018
Approved 6-0-0, November 1, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2080 USD to the AfroPython event happening in Porto Alegre, Brazil November 24, 2018
Approved 7-0-0, October 31, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $926 USD for the Python for Beginners Training Program
Denied 0-7-0, November 5, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve via director's allowance, $300 USD to the Speak Python Bootcamp event, taking place on December 19, 2018 in Accra, Ghana.
Approved November 5, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $600 USD to the Berlin Python Pizza event happening in Berlin, Germany on February 23, 2018.
Approved 6-0-0, November 7, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2,000 USD to PyCon Hong Kong happening in Hong Kong, China, November 23, 2018.
Approved 6-0-0, November 9, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $712.50 USD to the Teresina Django Girls Workshop, happening on November 14, 2018, in Teresina, Brazil.
Approved 7-0-0, November 12, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $300 USD to the Django Girls Bangalore Workshop 3rd edition, happening on February 9, 2019, in Bangalore, India.
Approved 6-0-0, November 13, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $800 USD to the Django Girls Aizuwakamatsu Workshop, happening on November 17, 2018, in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.
Approved 6-0-0, November 14, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $200 USD to Hack in the North, happening on March 30-31, 2019 in Allahabad, India.
Approved 6-0-0, November 19, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $3,000 USD to the PyCon Belarus 2019 event, happening on February 16, 2019 in Minsk, Belarus.
Approved 7-0-0, November 20, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $1990 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Amravati, India December 16, 2018
Denied 0-6-0, November 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $3750 USD to the PyCaribbean conference happening in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic February 16, 2019
Approved 6-0-1, November 21, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $5,380 USD to the Arua Python Festival event happening in Arua, Uganda December 15, 2018
Denied 0-6-0, November 21, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2000 USD to the Be a Cyber-Scientist Workshop happening in Larnaka, Cyprus December 17, 2018
Approved 8-0-0, November 26, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $600 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Rivers, Nigeria March 16, 2019
Approved 6-0-0, November 26, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $11,355 USD to the AboCoders training that will be happening in Kaduna, Nigeria November, 2018
Denied 0-8-0, November 26, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2500 USD to the Untangled Pathways' Summer Program happening in Houston, Texas the summer of 2019
Denied 0-8-0, December 4, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2000 USD to the PyCon Sweden conference happening in Stockholm, Sweden December 12, 2018
Approved 7-0-0, December 4, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $150 USD to the "Building web applications using flask" Workshop happening in Sokoto, Nigeria January 19, 2019
Approved 7-0-1, December 4, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $600 USD to the Python Ladies Workshop happening in Lima, Peru January 19, 2019
Approved 7-0-0, December 17, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2000 USD to the PyTennessee conference happening February 9-10, 2019 in Nashville, TN
Approved 7-0-0, December 17, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve via director's allowance $282.25 to help fund the Django Girls CDO workshop happening in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines on January 19, 2019.
Approved December 18, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $5,000 USD to the PyCon APAC conference happening in Manila, Philippines February 23, 2019
Approved 8-0-0, December 20, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $400 USD to the Sixth Bamenda Annual Python Conference happening in Bamenda, Cameroon February 18, 2019
Approved, 6-0-0, January 3, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $1000 USD to the PyTennessee Conference happening in Nashville, Tennessee February 9-10, 2019
Approved, 6-0-0, January 4, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2000 to the AI6 Cleveland Chapter for a series of hands-on Python workshops to begin in early 2019.
Approved 7-0-0, January 7, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $550 USD to the Benin User Group meet ups happening in Cotonou, Benin in 2019
Approved 8-0-0, January 9, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $400 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Tallinn, Estonia February 02, 2019
Approved 6-0-0, January 10, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $682 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Wa, Ghana March 9, 2019
Approved 6-0-0, January 16, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $2000 USD to the Professional Statisticians Society of Nigeria Conference happening in Ibadan, Nigeria April 22, 2019
Denied 0-6-0, January 16, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $5,735 USD to the PyCascades conference happening in Seattle, Washington February 23 - 24, 2019
Approved 9-0-0, January 22, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant 3,421.90 USD (~3000 Euro) to the DjangoCon Europe conference happening in Copenhagen, Denmark April 10-14th 2019
Approved 9-0-0, January 22, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $422 USD to the Python Barranquilla User Group events happening in Barranquilla, Colombia throughout 2019
Approved 9-0-0, January 22, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $880 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Bayelsa, Nigeria April 27, 2019
Denied 0-6-0, January 23, 2019
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Group grant $1000 USD to the InnoviCon Conference happening in New Delhi, India February 2, 2019
Denied 0-7-0, January 28, 2019
4.2 Scientific Python
None at this time.
4.3 Sponsors
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Sponsor Working Group approve the sponsor application from Cyber Infrastructure at the Iron Level.
Approved 7-0-0, November 30, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Software Foundation Sponsor Working Group approve the sponsor application from HRank.com at the Iron Level.
Approved 6-3-0, December 3, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Software Foundation Sponsor Working Group approve the sponsor application from Hostinger at the Iron Level.
Approved 7-0-0, December 11, 2018
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Software Foundation Sponsor Working Group approve the sponsor application from Icons8 at the Iron Level.
Approved 7-0-0, December 17, 2018
4.4 New Business
- Code of Conduct updates - postponed until the next meeting.
- Discussed 2019 Budget as prepared by Phyllis (the Finance Committee will kick off in early February to go over the budget in more detail and ask questions).
- Updates from the Python in Education board committee
- Discussed Python export laws: https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2018-December/049095.html. Continue via email.
- General Counsel updates
- Discussed creating an application form for 2019/2020 board nominees
5 Other Business / Discussions
Discussed Python Governance. To be continued via email.
6 Meeting Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 07:17 UTC (GMT/Zulu).