[pydotorg-www] Board Resolutions from May to August 2010

Thu Sep 30 23:20:55 CEST 2010

Hi Pydotorg:

Could you please add the following board resolutions  from May
to August 2010 to this web page:

http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/resolutions/

*Please see list of board resolutions to be added below:*

*May 2010 - Please add Board Resolutions*

**RESOLVED**, that we create a new officer position "Communications Officer"
to oversee the PSF communication between board, members and community. Doug
Hellmann is appointed as first PSF Communications Officer.

Approved, 10-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the Infrastructure Committee may contract companies
affiliated with IC members under the condition that:

   * these affiliations are publicized,

   * the respective IC member abstains from any vote regarding

      a contract with an affiliated company,

   * the IC gets at least one quote from a non-affiliated company,

      in case the expected costs exceed USD 1000 for one-time

      or USD 1000 per year for periodically billed expenditures.

   * the IC reports a summary of the decision process to the board

      for each such decision.

Approved, 10-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 750 grant to the organizers of the
PyCon Ukraine conference to be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, later this year, for
funding speaker travel expenses.

Approved, 10-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 1,000 grant to the organizers of the
SciPy 2010 Conference to be held in Austin, Texas on June 28 through July 3,
2010, for students travel expenses.

Approved, 8-0-1.

**RESOLVED**, that expense receipts and invoices for any PSF funded activity
or equipment must be sent to the PSF Treasurer within 90 days of date of
receipt or

invoice. Late filings will not be processed or refunded, unless prior
arrangements

have been made with the PSF Board, with a summary sent to psf at python.org.

Expenses in non-USD currencies will be refunded in USD at the representative

exchange rate as published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as-of
the date

on the receipt/invoice (
http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx).

Approved, 10-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the board recommends Exoweb Ltd., Bejing, China, as a

pending sponsor member.

Approved, 10-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that all non-USD expenses incurred by officers or directors of
the

PSF for PyCon 2009 be reimbursed in USD based on    the representative
exchange

rate as published by the International Monetary Fund as-of May 22 2009

(http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx).

Approved, 8-0-2.

**RESOLVED**, that the Board of Directors implement the creation of a new
membership class, called "honorary associate members", as requested and
approved

by the members at the 2010 first annual PSF members meeting, by updating the

bylaws as follows:

   * Section 3.10, first paragraph, is updated to include the

     honorary associate members as non-voting member class:

     Section 3.10. Voting. Each nominated member shall be entitled to

     one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of the

     members, except as may otherwise be provided in the General

     Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Sponsor members that

     have appointed a representative, as described in Section 4.3,

     are also entitled to one such vote. Emeritus members and honorary

     associate members are not entitled to vote at members' meetings.

   * Section 4.1 is updated to include the new member class:

     Section 4.1. Member Classes. There are four classes of members

     of the corporation, denoted as nominated members, sponsor members,

     honorary associate members and emeritus members. References in

     these Bylaws to a "member" or to the "members" of the corporation

     shall not include any honorary associate member, emeritus member

     or sponsor member unless explicitly provided otherwise.

   * Section 4.9 is updated to include the possibility to have

     honorary associate members withdraw their membership:

     Section 4.9. Voluntary Withdrawal from Membership. Members

     (including honorary associate members and emeritus members) may

     withdraw from membership in the corporation at any time upon ten

     (10) days' written, signed notice delivered to an officer of the

     corporation.

   * a new Section 4.12 is added to defined the new membership class:

     Section 4.12. Honorary Associate Members. Honorary associate

     members have no voting rights and are not included in the

     membership count for purposes of establishing a quorum.

     Honorary associate membership shall be granted, on a yearly

     basis, in consideration of financial donation to the PSF, but

     subject to revocation by the Board of Directors. Annual

     donations sufficient for honorary associate membership shall

     initially be set at US$99, and may be revised by the Board of

     Directors from time to time. The Board or Directors may, at

     its discretion, decide to provide incidental benefits to

     honorary associate members, such as subscription to a

     newsletter, Python-branded email addresses, or printed

     promotion material such as badges, stickers, or garments.

Denied, 2-8-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the Board approves the creation of a specific "Targeted

Sprint Committee" and allocates a yearly budget of 5000    USD for the
funding

of targeted, community based sprints with Jesse Noller as the initial
Chairman,

and additional members as needed per project requirements and approved by

the board.

Approved, 9-0-1.

*June 2010 - Please add Board Resolutions*

**RESOLVED**, that the Board approves the use of up to $15,000 USD of

the PyCon 2010 profits to be used by the PyCon Chair (Van Lindberg) to

fund the rebuilding of the PyCon website and codebase, with the approval to

use an additional $5000 USD for continued support and bug fixing of the new

site for the PyCon 2011 season.

Approved, 9-1-3.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 1,000 grant to the organizers of the

PyCon India 2010 conference to be held September 2010, to fund the air
travel of

one (1) foreign delegate from the U.S. or Europe to India.

Approved, 7-0-1.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 2,000 grant to the organizers of the
EuroPython 2010 conference to be held July 2010, to fund sprint costs and
travel expenses for selected speakers who could not otherwise attend.

Approved, 7-0-1.

**RESOLVED**, that the Board of Directors implement the creation of a new
membership class, called "honorary associate members", as requested and

approved by the members at the 2010 first annual PSF members meeting, as

follows:

   There are now four classes of members of the corporation, denoted as

   nominated members, sponsor members, honorary associate members and

   emeritus members. References in the bylaws to a "member" or to the

   "members" of the corporation shall not include any honorary associate

   member, emeritus member or sponsor member unless explicitly provided

   otherwise.

   Honorary associate members have no voting rights and are not included

   in the membership count for purposes of establishing a quorum.

   Honorary associate membership shall be granted, on a yearly basis, in

   consideration of financial donation to the PSF, but subject to

   revocation by the Board of Directors.

   Annual donations sufficient for honorary associate membership shall

   initially be set at US$99, and may be revised by the Board of

   Directors from time to time.

   Honorary associate members may withdraw from membership in the

   corporation at any time upon ten (10) days' written, signed notice

   delivered to an officer of the corporation.

   The Board or Directors may, at its discretion, decide to provide

   incidental benefits to honorary associate members, such as

   subscription to a newsletter, Python-branded email addresses, or

   printed promotion material such as badges, stickers, or garments.

Approved, 8-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF reimburse expenses not to exceed USD 1,500 to

allow the Chairman to attend EuroPython which is holding the first Members'

Meeting outside the United States.

Approved, 7-0-1.

*July 2010 - Please add Board Resolutions*

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 3,000 grant to Jean-Paul Calderone
for

a fully functional port of pyOpenSSL to Python 3.x with an API as similar to
the 2.x

API as possible.

Approved, 9-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 4,500 grant to work full-time for a

period of two months on Python core development as outlined in the proposal
PDF

(
http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/attachments/20100614/62bbf3b8/attachment-0001.pdf
).

Approved, 9-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF donate $100 to the American Heart Association in
memory of Tim Costello, the uber- technician of CTE who recently
passed-away.

Approved, 9-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the Board reauthorize the Trademarks Committee, with a

membership consisting of Chair David Mertz, and members Marc-Andre Lemburg,

David Goodger, James Tauber, Doug Napoleone. Further resolve that the Chair

shall be authorized to appoint or remove such advisors to the committee as
s/he

sees fit, where advisors may offer advice to the committee on legal or
technical

issues but shall not vote in discussions nor count towards quorum.

Approved, 5-0-3.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a grant of US$2500 to the organizers of
the

PyCon Argentina & Python Brasil 2010 conferences to be held October 2010, to

fund the travel expenses of keynote speakers.

Approved, 9-0-0.

*August 2010 - Please add Board Resolutions*

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF support PyTexas 2010 with a grant of $750.

Approved, 12-0-1.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF offers a USD 750 grant to the organizers of the

PyCon PL 2010 conference.

Approved, 8-0-1.

**RESOLVED**, that subject to the President's approval the PSF will increase
the administrator's reimbursement by USD 400 per month.

Approved, 9-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the board recommends Werbeagentur Berlin - Eventelligence

ltd. as a pending sponsor member.

Approved, 9-0-0.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF will direct an initial $500 towards exploring the
feasability of a static PyPI (http://pypi.python.org/) mirror on a cloud
delivery

network (CDN), setup as outlined in the proposal
http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/2010-August/013056.html.

Anticipated ongoing costs will be $1944/year, subject to approval in
subsequent

Board motions.

Approved, 9-0-0.

Thanks,

Pat

PS. If you have any questions, please let me know.

-- 
Pat Campbell
PSF Administrator/Secretary
patcam at python.org
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