[pydotorg-www] Board Resolutions from April through June 2011 Board Meetings

Sun Aug 14 00:56:15 CEST 2011

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Doug

On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Pat Campbell wrote:

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> Hi pydotorg team:
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> Could you please add the following board resolutions from
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> the April through June 2011 board meeting to this web page:
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> http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/resolutions/   
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> Please see list of board resolutions to be added below:
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> **RESOLVED**, that Jesse Noller is appointed the office of PyCon chair
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>  for the years 2012 and 2013.
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> Approved 10-0-1 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PyCon 2012/13 chair, Jesse Noller, is authorized
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> to sign the hotel contract for 2013 with the conference hotel as referenced in
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> his email to the board on March 30.
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> Approved 9-0-1 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the following people be appointed as officers until the
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> next Board election (or their resignation).
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>    * **President**: Guido van Rossum
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>    * **Chairman**: Steve Holden
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>    * **Secretary**: Pat Campbell
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>    * **Treasurer**: Kurt Kaiser
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>    * **Communications**: Doug Hellmann  
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> Approved 11-0-0 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PSF Board of Directors may adopt binding
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> resolutions between regularly scheduled full-board meetings by
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> email, subject to the following procedures:
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>  (1) Any Director may make a motion to the Board, using the published
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> Board mailing list address.
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>  (2) For a motion to pass, a "super-quorum" of 3/4 of the Directors MUST
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> participate in the email vote by stating 'Aye',  'Nay' or 'Abstain' to a proposed
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> motion, with the vote appended  to a quoted version of the exact motion
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> proposed. In the case of a Board of 13 Directors, this will require 10 directors
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> to vote by email.
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> (3) For a motion to pass, an absolute majority of the whole Board MUST vote
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> 'Aye'. In the case of a Board of 13 Directors, this will require 7 Aye votes.
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> (4) Amended to: The proposing Director SHALL set a specific date and time
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> for expiration of a vote. The expiration date/time typically should be at least
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> 72 hours after the motion is proposed and shall not be less than 24 hours after the
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>  motion is proposed, and may not extend past the next scheduled Board meeting.
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> Votes are completed once all directors have voted even if this occurs before the 
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> expiration of the vote.
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> (5) The result of any vote conducted by email SHALL be included in the minutes
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> of the next regularly scheduled Board meeting.
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> Approved 10-0-0 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that Laura Creighton and Tarek Ziade' be awarded the 2011 -
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> 2nd Quarter PSF Community Service Award.
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> Approved 10-0-1 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011. 
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>  **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide a grant of $1,000 US to sponsor the
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>  2011 Summer pyGames python based programming competition.
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> Approved 10-0-0 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.
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>  **RESOLVED**, that the PSF a single server for up to USD 4000 for the
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> speed.python.org project. The PSF will additionally try to raise funds to be
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> used for additional projects/hardware via a call for sponsors.
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> Approved 7-0-3 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide funding of $3,000 in discretionary
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> spending to allow Van Lindberg to provide the monies for the final PyCon-related expenses.
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> Approved 7-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide a grant of $2,000 to sponsor the SciPy 2011 
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> Conference to be held in Austin, Texas on July 11 through the 16th.
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> Approved 8-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide funding of $1,500 to the GNOME Foundation
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> for the 2011 Libre Graphics Meeting to be held in Montreal.
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> Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide funding of $1,500 USD to sponsor the 
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> PyArgentina Conference (requested by Juan Rodríguez Monti).
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> Approved 6-0-2 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that David Mertz be appointed chairman of the Trademarks
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> Committee for 2011/2012.
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> Approved 8-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that Sean Reifschneider be appointed chairman of the
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> Infrastructure Committee for 2011/2012.
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> Approved 9-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that Jesse Noller be appointed chairman of the Sprints
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> Committee for 2011/2012.
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> Approved 8-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the reappointment of the individual members of the
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> Trademarks Committee, the Infrastructure Committee and the Sprints Committee
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> for the term 2010/2011 be delegated to the Chairman of the Board based on the
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> proposals by the chairmen of the respective committees in accordance with section
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> 6.4 of the bylaws.
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> Approved 8-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the 2011 Frank Willison Award be awarded to Georg
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> Brandl. The award was initially announced at the 2011 EuroPython Conference.  
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> Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide a USD $1,220 grant to PyLadies to support
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> the growth of this community, as outlined in Audrey Roy's grant proposal PDF:
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> (http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/attachments/20110604/e982d484/attachment-0001.pdf)
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> Approved 10-0-0 by email vote, 5 June 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PyCon 2011 Chair is authorized to enter agreements,
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> sign contracts on behalf of the PSF and incur expenses up to a total of $50,000 for
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> a specific conference, subject to prompt reporting to the Board. The limit is waived
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> as soon as the budget for the specific conference has been approved by the Board 
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> of Directors. Thereafter the PyCon Chair is directed to inform the Board of actual or 
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> expected variances from the budget of $5,000 or more.
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>    
> Approved 9-0-1 by email vote, 19 June 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the PSF form an official "Outreach and Education" project 
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> management committee with the goals of identifying key initiatives, programs and 
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> subjects in this domain that the PSF can assist, fund or help guide. This committee
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> will make recommendations to the membership, the board and its committees and
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> act as a guiding hand for the PSF in this domain. The committee will be chaired by
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> David Mertz (PSF Director). The initial membership will be the following individuals: 
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> Gloria Jacobs (PSF Director), Jessica McKellar, Daniel Greenfeld, Audrey Roy, Ned 
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> Batchelder, Asheesh Laroia, Simon Law and Yannick Gingras.
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> Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 27 June 2011.
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> **RESOLVED**, that the Board recognizes the efforts expended by its Administrator,
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> Pat Campbell, in furthering the development of the organization and the mission of 
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> the Foundation.
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> Approved 8-0-0 by IRC vote, 27 June 2011.
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> Thanks in advance for posting the above resolutions online. If you have any 
> questions, please let me know. 
>  
> Pat
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> 
> -- 
> Pat Campbell
> PSF Administrator/Secretary
> patcam at python.org
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