[PSF-Community] [X-POST] PSF Board Meeting Minutes 2017-04-03

[Kushal Das]

Hi everyone,

The PSF board meeting minutes from 3rd April are available online at [1].

There were 9 directors present in the meeting. Ewa Jodlowksa (Director
of Operations), Kurt Kaiser (Treasurer), Betsy Waliszewski (Event
Planner and Administrator), Phyllis Dobbs (Controller/Assistant
Treasurer Accountant), (Mark Mangoba (IT Manager) were also in
attendance.


The sponsor working group approved UK Web Host Review and Accelebrate
as Iron level sponsors of PSF.


The Python Software Foundation also awarded the 2017 Frank Willison
Award to Katie Cunningham and Barbara Shaurette in recognition of
their continuing work to create and run their Young Coders classes,
along with freely distributing their teaching materials.


The following grants were also approved from our last meeting, totaling
$32087.46


* PyLadies Toronto meetup fee
  $179.88


* PuPPy User Group
  $269.82

* PyLadies London
  $359.76


* Django Girls Jos, Nigeria workshop.
  $750


* Django Girls São José dos Campos, Brazil
  May 20, 2017
  $750


* Django Girls Porto Alegre, Brazil
  March 17, 2017
  $1000


* Django Girls Accra, Ghana
  June 16-17, 2017
  $700


* Django Girls Faridabad
  $400


* Django Girls Niterói
  $500


* PyCode Czech Republic
  April 7-9, 2017
  $600


* Django Girls Maceió, Brazil
  May 12-13, 2017
  $500


* Django Girls Florence, Italy
  April 2, 2017
  $538


* Django Girls Gurgaon, India
  April 9, 2017
  $400


* PyCon APAC 2017
  $3000


* Django Girls Warri, Nigeria
  April 29, 2017
  $600


* Python Programming Society of Namibia for lab equipment to be used
at the Windhoek Technical High School
  $1000


* Django Girls Arapiraca, Brazil
  August 26th, 2017
  $500


* Django Girls Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  May 27th, 2017
  $500


* Django Girls Enugu State, Nigeria
  April 27-28, 2017
  $800


* Django Girls Sokoto, Nigeria
  April 6, 2017
  $740


* PyData San Luis, Argentina
  November 16-18, 2017
  $750


* PyConWEB 2017, Berlin
  May 27-28, 2017
  $2000


* PyLadies Taiwan Line Bot Workshop
  May 13, 2017
  $800


* PyCon CZ
  June 9-11, 2017
  2000€ ($2240 in today's value)


* SciPy Austin, TX
  July 10-13, 2017
  $2000


* Hapa Foundation Training Program in Kumasi, Ghana
  $1250


* EuroPython 2017
  July 9-16, Rimini, Italy
  8000€ ($8960 in today's value)


For more updates from the PSF, please visit our blog[2] and follow us on
Twitter[3].



[1] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2017-04-03/
[2] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/
[3] https://twitter.com/ThePSF


Kushal
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Director, Python Software Foundation
Fedora Cloud Engineer
CPython Core Developer
http://kushaldas.in