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...PyCon Chair J. Noller, PyCon Chair, provided us with information surrounding the current status of the PyCon US affairs. He reported on the interim period at the closing of PyCon US 2012 and the gearing up of PyCon US 2013: "Not much to report this month: We are in the process of closing out the 2012 budget/books so the foundation can recognize the revenue from the conference. We are in the discussion phase of 2013 based on what we learned from 2012, and I am ramping up sponsorship discuss...
...PyCon: A. Kuchling will prepare a budget for PyCon to be discussed by email or at the next meeting. Status: done. See PyCon Budget below. Section 7, PyCon: D. Goodger will prepare for the PSF members' meeting at PyCon. Status: in progress. Section 8, Advocacy Coordinator Status: S. Deibel will summarize the board's discussion and communicate it with the Advocacy Coordinator. S. Deibel reported that Jeff Rush has posted a call for content authors; "now we see if the community responds.&qu...
...PyCon help) Doug Napoleone (PyCon help & web apps) Sean Reifschneider (pydotorg maintainer, PyCon help) Jeff Rush (PyCon co-chair, Advocacy Coordinator) See the PSF Membership FAQ Election of Sponsor Members A simple majority is required to elect new members. The Board has already approved the following as pending sponsor members: Tabblo (April 10, 2006) cPacket Networks (June 12, 2006) Madison Tyler LLC / EWT (July 10, 2006) Microsoft (August 14, 2006) Canonical (January 8, 2006) Revi...
...PyCon transaction analysis. Status: pending. [10] Originally from 16 June 2008, Section 6.8, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will follow up regarding unpaid PyCon registrations. Status: pending. [25] Originally from 11 August 2008, Section 6.2, PyCon UK Sponsorship:R. Hettinger will propose a blanket policy for sponsorships, instead of one-off requests. Status: pending. [17] Originally from 8 September 2008, Section 7, PSF Logo: D. Goodger will produce final layouts for a PSF logo. Status: pen...
...PyCon software. The board also discussed and recommended that all reports (committee reports, project reports, etc.) be submitted to the board mailing list at least one week before the monthly board meeting. 7 Fund PyCon PL 2010 The board discussed funding of PyCon PL 2010 and agreed to provide a USD 750 grant to conference organizers to aid with conference needs. RESOLVED, that the PSF offers a USD 750 grant to the organizers of the PyCon PL 2010 conference. Approved, 8-0...
...PyCon Marc-Andre asked why the deadline for the early-bird fee was extended, and who made this decision. Jeremy answered it was a stealth decision, as neither the conference committee nor the pycon-organizers list were involved. Guido said there never was a clear decision point. People discussed it as a good idea, them somebody got confused and Steve Holden reported it suddenly as decided. Marc-Andre pointed out that he agrees with the decision itself, but doesn't like the way it was handled. ...
...PyCon US in Salt Lake City. Over the years Naomi has taken on many leadership roles to make PyCon US successful and welcoming. She served as Chair of the Hatchery Program and she helped found PyCon Charlas, our Spanish language track. At different points in time, she’s also been the Co-chair of Sprints, an Organizer of the PyCon Education Summit and Chair for poster sessions at PyCon US. She also co-founded Trans*Code, an on-going series of hackdays (mostly) in the UK, which aims to build commun...
...PyCon Uno (Italy): D. Goodger will produce a PSF logo based on the Python logo. Status: carried forward. Originally from May 2007, Section 7, PyCon Uno (Italy): D. Goodger will look into making PSF banners. Status: carried forward. 3.2 New in August These action items originated at the 13 August 2007 board meeting on IRC. Section 4, PyCon UK Sponsorship Request: S. Deibel will inform the PyCon UK Society of the PSF's sponsorship, and will request an invoice, payment inform...
...PyCon Chairman be authorized to sign the necessary contracts for PyCon 2009. Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, May 12, 2008. RESOLVED, that the PyCon Chair (David Goodger) is authorized to obligate the PSF under the Conference Technology Enhancements, Inc. (CTE) Housing & Meeting Planning contracts ([1], [2]) for PyCon 2009. [1] pycon/2009/CTE-housing.pdf in PSF CVS [2] pycon/2009/CTE-meeting-planning.pdf in PSF CVS Approved by unanimous email vote, April 25, 2008. RESOLVED, that the PyCon ch...
...PyCon Hotel/CC Management the refund from Santa Clara has been received via Earth Class Mail and should be reaching KBK soon and then can be applied to the 2013 PyCon budget and to the PSF budget. PyCon Housing Management Worked with CTE on getting housing details for the launch of registration (is expected for Monday, September 16) PyCon Registration Management Worked with CTE on getting reg details in place for launch. PyCon Site Visits nothing to report PyCon Website M...
...PyCon Chair and the PyCon organizing committee, and WHEREAS this role is effectively being filled by the PSF Board of Directors, be it RESOLVED, that the Conference Committee be dissolved, and that the PyCon Chair be an Officer of the Foundation. Approved unanimously (7-0-0). 4 Discussion The following topics were discussed: Sponsor membership fee increase? Non-participating members. What should we do with the PSF's money? We need a budget. G. van Rossum: Grants to ...
...PyCon transaction analysis. Status: carried forward. Section 6.3, Treasurer's Report: D. Goodger will ensure that documentation for unpaid PyCon tutorials is found and provided. Status: carried forward. Section 6.4, Treasurer's Report: 4. D. Goodger will send all remaining PyCon checks to K. Kaiser for deposit. Status: carried forward. Section 6.5, Treasurer's Report: D. Godoger will provide K. Kaiser with PyCon financial aid documentation. Status: carried forward. Section 6.6, Treasurer's R...
...PyCon Per email, Neal had proposed a budget for PyCon. Guido van Rossum had remarked that this only predicted expenses, not income, and that he would prefer a more detailed budget plan for PyCon. At the IRC meeting, Steve said he had no formal budget drawn up yet, but that the resolution is adopted in its current form; he would present the budget to the next board meeting. Martin said he did not like this, because Guido already had objected and is not present at the meeting. He asked what the i...
...PyCon US - We held our 20th PyCon US, in Salt Lake City and online, which was an exhilarating success! For the online component, PyCon US OX, we added two moderated online hallway tracks (in Spanish and English) and saw a 33% increase in virtual engagement. It was great to see everyone again in 2023, and we’re grateful to all the speakers, volunteers, attendees, and sponsors who made it such a special event. Security Developer in Residence - Seth Larson joined the PSF earlier this year as our f...
...PyCon US Website D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, reported on issues/ blockages: Schedule application delayed. 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: Re...
...PyCon 2014 on Friday night. PyCon Hotel/CC Management trying to get all of the refunds from the CC and commission checks from hotels. PyCon Housing Management nothing to report PyCon Registration Management working on signing contract with CTE for 2014. discussed with Diana and Mathieu items that we want CTE to manage for 2014. Will be sending those items for review to CTE. PyCon Site Visits Site visit happened June 29-July 2. PyCon Website Management Launched PyCon...
...PyCon 2008 budget as recorded in the PSF's CVS repository at pycon/2008/budget.pdf and on the web at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pyx4TeJX2JDoKnFsixLn9bw. The PyCon Chair, David Goodger, is directed to inform the Board of actual or expected variances from the budget of $5,000 or more. Approved 7-0-0. 6 Use of Python Logo on Business Cards S. Deibel reported that there was a request from someone to use the Python logo on their business card: In short, I think we have...
...PyCon 2006's schedule is: February 23 through March 2, 2006: Wed, Feb 22 Setup Thu, Feb 23 Tutorials Fri, Feb 24 PyCon day 1 Sat, Feb 25 PyCon day 2 Sun, Feb 26 PyCon day 3 Mon, Feb 27 Sprints 1 Tue, Feb 28 Sprints 2 Wed, Mar 1 Sprints 3 Thu, Mar 2 Sprints 4 / teardown Room occupancy: the tentative figure is that PyCon will have an 850-room-night block, of which 80% (= 680 room nights) will need to be filled. This is OK if we assume 550 attendees. (Figure, if everyone shar...
...PyCon Uno (Italy): D. Goodger will produce a PSF logo based on the Python logo. Status: carried forward. Originally from May 2007, Section 7, PyCon Uno (Italy): D. Goodger will look into making PSF banners. Status: carried forward. Originally from September 2007, Section 5, Fraud Attempts: A. Kuchling will prepare a statement on fraudulent PSF checks for the python.org website. Status: in progress. Originally from October 2007, Section 8, Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit Report: D. Goodger...
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