3.1   Board Report

• Finished transition to the new bylaws
• New website
• New board settling in

3.2   Treasurer Reports

(as of 2013-12-31)

• Assets: 1.684.000 US$
• Liabilities: 761.000 US$
• Equity: 922.000 US$

(as of 2014-03-31)

• Assets: 2.541.000 US$
• Liabilities: 1.664.000 US$
• Equity: 876.000 US$

5.1   Introduction to the new PSF membership model

Membership size

• PSF was founded in 2001: 16 members, 2 sponsor members
• June 2012:204 members, 26 sponsor members
• March 2013:283 members, 28 sponsor members
• July 2014: 1877 Basic Members!

In 2014 a new membership model was approved by the membership and board. It consists of the following New membership model

• Basic members

  • Sign up via web form
  • No voting rights
  • No fees to pay
  • May attend members meeting
  • Open to anyone, anywhere

• Supporting members

  • Basic membership, plus the following:
  • voting rights
  • yearly fee or lifetime fee

• Sponsor members

  • Legal persons only
  • yearly fee
  • voting rights via delegates
  • various sponsor levels (each w/ different benefits and # of delegates)
  • voted in by the voting members

• Managing members

  • Basic membership, plus the following:
  • voting rights
  • need to sign up to at least one working group and invest at least 5 hours work per month
  • requirements revisited on a yearly basis; conversion to basic membership in case requirements are no longer met

• Contributing members

  • Basic membership, plus the following:
  • voting rights
  • need to invest at least 5 hours work per month contributing to (Python related) open-source projects
  • requirements revisited on a yearly basis; conversion to basic membership in case requirements are no longer met

• Fellows

  • Basic membership, plus the following:
  • voting rights
  • need to be nominated by other Fellows
  • need to be voted in as Fellow by 2/3 of the voting members
  • stay member for life
  • all nominated members automatically turned into Fellows

5.2   Information for Voting Members

• Special group of members: All members with voting rights, who have indicated that they want to use this right
• Voting rights must be reestablished each year (via checkbox)
• Members lose voting rights for a the remainder of a year in case more than 4 votes are not cast
• The PSF will use Special online voting software. It is Based on the OSS eVote system. It was developed by Massimo di Pierro and maintained byDavid Mertz: https://github.com/mdipierro/evote. It is Already used by OSI at https://elections.opensource.org/

5.3   New Concept: Workgroups

• Can be proposed by any member
• Voted in by voting members or PSF board
• Integration into the PSF defined by work group charta
• Can get their own budget
• Workgroups will help with Creating closer ties between the PSF and national Python organizations
• Getting more work done
• Decentralizing PSF work

5.4   Moving the PSF outside the US

Basically the same as on the PSF members ML. It's better to invest work in making communication channels safer than to spend time on moving the PSF. Most of the PSF sponsors are US based, so a move would have a direct probably negative effect on the PSF income.

5.5   Contributing members and large Python projects

Members did see the potential for problems, but did not feel that we should set up rules such a limits of number of contributing members per project right now. Instead, we should make sure that we get the needed information from contributing members to monitor the effects:

• have a field with the project name to which the member contributes in the database
• have a field with the affiliation of the member in the database