5.1   Communication Status

D. Hellmann, Communication Officer, reported continued activities from last month, by saying:

1. Paulo Nuin is working on a post about the PyPI mirroring project.

2. Engelbert Gruber is working on interview questions for a post about the new PyCon web site.

As far as new activities for the month are concerned, he reported:

1. Summer pyGames post, by Paulo Nuin

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/12/summer-pygames.html

2. Post about Vern Ceder's programming class, by Doug Hellmann

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/12/high-school-students-program-robots.html

3. PSF Community awards posts, by Paulo Nuin

   • http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/01/andrew-kuchling-receives-psf-community.html
   • http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/01/doug-hellmann-receives-psf-community.html

For items planned for next month and ongoing projects, D. Hellmann reported on respectively:

1. Assist with publicity for PyCon.

Facebook stats for 9 Dec - 7 Jan

13,0962 monthly active users

1,559 new likes

247,533 post views

549 post feedback

5.2   Core Development Tasks

B. Cannon, Core Development Tasks Project, reported new activities for the month of January by saying:

"Devguide has been started (http://docs.python.org/devguide/). As of this moment the pages related to getting someone set up to becoming a core developer are now done."

As far as plans for next month's activities, Brett goes on to say:

"The guides on how to make changes to the stdlib and the language will be done. There is also some doc cleanup in terms of moving things out of various PEPs and the Misc directory in Python's repo and over to the devguide.

After that I will start the Python 2->3 porting guide."

5.3   HAM WebPages/Links

P. Campbell, Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) WebPages Start-up Project, reported issues/blockages for the month by saying:

"The issue is that we are in need of another Content Management System (CMS) like MatrixMaxx because we will no longer be utilizing the MatrixMaxx Group service. Our primary contact and advocate will be leaving the company.

Therefore, we are currently shopping around for a replacement service as well as looking into a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) setup like CiviCRM SugarCRM, or Salesforce just to name a few."

Board Discussion:

7. Willadsen: "Will CiviCRM be hosted elsewhere, or will we have to do so?"

K. Kaiser: "Not decided -- not a major issue compared to the web page development. My view is that CiviCRM is very similar to MatrixMaxx. What is missing is the web page where the Honarary Associate Membership (HAM) signup. Payment is relatively a minor issue."

19. Holden: "What I would like to emphasize are the priorities:
    1. The system should include membership management that will handle our current and anticipated needs.
    2. It should provide all necessary financial information in a form easily entered into QBO.
    3. It should be easy for Pat to operate and train others in the operation of."

5.4   Infrastructure Committee

S. Reifschneider, Infrastructure Committee Chair, reported the following work initiated for the month:

1.Martin set up DNS for the Polish Python Coders group.They were losing access to their previous domain at www.python.org.pl because the domain owner wanted to commercialize it. COMPLETED.

5.5   Marketing Material

M.A.Lemburg, Marketing Material Project Manager, reported progress on the project:

"The proposal for the project was accepted by the PSF board in the December 2010 meeting. It was a close call, but I'm glad that such projects can finally be undertaken with the PSF.

We are currently preparing the paperwork to get the contractual side setup and have in parallel started work on the content."

As far as future plans are concerned for his marketing materials project, he reported:

"If the project goes well, we'll follow up with a Python flyer, translated versions of the brochure and also consider creating marketing material more targeted at specific user groups or application fields.

In the long run, we'd also like to take the idea of producing marketing material beyond printed material and develop booth setups, giveaways, CDs, etc. to support conference organizers and local user groups wishing to promote Python at their events."

5.6   Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront

The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, reported progress on this project for the month:

"We have setup the Amazon account for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and enabled S3 and CloudFront.

Since we don't want to get into issues with respect to the PyPI content being subject to US regulations, we will be using the European facilities of Amazon in Ireland for hosting the data. The current PyPI production server is located in The Netherlands.

The next step is to create a development environment for working out the integration details. This will require getting access to the PyPI server, database and then creating a private installation of the PyPI software."

13. 1. Lemburg also reported on future plans for the project:

"Van Lindbergh mentioned RackSpace's cloud system on the board list. We may proceed with integrating that as well, if the Amazon setup turns out to work according to plan."

5.7   PyCon US Website

D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, reported on issues/ blockages:

1. Schedule application delayed.

2. Website overloaded

   The 2011 website hosted by Eldarion became overloaded the evening the talks were announced. More cloud servers have been brought online to prevent this from happening in the future. We were handling >6 Meg/sec traffic and >20M hits/sec for ~5min before we buckled under the load.

He also reported on continued activities from last month by saying:

1. Registration continues with only two known minor one-time problems.

For new activities, items planned for next month, and ongoing projects, D. Napoleone reported respectively:

1. Talks and Tutorials announced.

1. New schedule system from Eldarion

1. Bug fixes and feature requests.

2. Archival of old PyCon websites.

   We will end of life the Tummy.com dedicated server within 6 months. All the previous years sites will be archived to static content, checked into the python.org PyCon svn repository and cheaply hosted.

5.8   Sprint Committee

J. Noller, Sprint Committee Chair, reported continued activities from last month with:

"- Announced lax requirements on blog, need to update CFP."

As far as new activities for the month are concerned, J. Noller reported:

"- Brian and I are going to finish the updated CFA/CFP

• We need to spend more significant time sending out emails and marketing the fact the project exists."

8.1   PSF-board-public Mailing List

The board discussed the need to add a new public board mailing list in addition to the private one that is currently being used by board members.The new public board mailing list will be utilized by both board directors and PSF members on a trial basis.