A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on Thursday, 18 October 2018. The meeting was held in person at DjangoCon US 2018. Frank Wiles led the meeting.

Attendees

• Frank
• Katie
• James
• Anna
• Rebecca
• Daniele (on hangout)

Treasurer’s Report

• Balance
  • $141K
• Filed extension, 990 due Nov. 15
  • RC needs to get Landi the stuff she asked for this week.
• ACTION: Open an Expressions of Interest for a part-time fundraising co-ordinator
  • frank and anna working on
• Donor Acknowledgement
  • ??
• Board Member willing to assemble event reports?
  • Frank willing to do this, but only for the larger events (not all DJG events)
• Elections
  • Communications around election
    • esp. those who nominated last year
  • official: tweeting, blogs (ETA end of month)
  • personal: AMA (Rebecca), Daniele “What’s it’s like to be a board member”
  • timing
    • previous timing: Nov 1
    • call out - Monday 22 October
    • • Paid admin position ongoing (Catherine)?
  • assisting the treasurer, ensuring Django Fellows get paid Recurring Business
• Sponsorship requests: Trello, record of grants awarded, AutoForm
  • plus numerous Django Girls events
    • North Bay Python 2018 - Frank to email re non-for-profit sponsorship
    • PyCon Balkan - amount?
    • PyCode conference Poland
    • Djangogirls okigwe - on hold
    • Django Girls Workshop Malate, Kwara State - on hold
• New DSF member nominations (Manual), DSF Membership Nominations AutoForm
  • (Daniele to notify nominees from autoform)
• Member Form Meta
  • expressions of interest to create an integrated form on djangoproject to ease process
  • Action: Rebecca and Daniele to draft a specification - Daniele’s proposal with Rebecca’s addition of a CFP.
    • unanimous approval to publish, with 5-8kUSD budget
      • Note: $5k budget, with $3k for updates over 18-months, as a general ballpark
  • How to approve members - DSF okay, then throw out maybe’s to list?
• Corporate Memberships
  • • Domains (Rebecca) - no change in Oct. 
  • Possible: Dutch Django Association? Change to a djangcon.org with subdomains?
    • ACTION Daniele will find a DDA person to chat about this at DCEU
• Election Software
  • Frank’s investigates found nothing better out there
  • Considering Helios
  • https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/ (used by k8s)
    • rank system, unique link
  • Google Form copy-from-previous-year by Monday Oct 22
  • Voting System - voting from 7th Nov(?) for a week
  • Notify accepted/declined BEFORE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
    • also confirming they accept
• DjangoCons
  • DjangoCon AU Happened!
  • DjangoCon Europe 2019
    • Daniele has been attempting to find volunteers in Sweden has successfully worked with a team from Copenhagen who are ready to put in a formal proposal for DJEU 2019 in Denmark. PDF
  • DjangoCon US 2018
    • ~477 tickets sold, ~178 tutorial tickets sold
  • PyCon Nigeria - report
    • PyCon Africa - Ghana (not yet public)
• Core Dissolving
  • James proposal on mailing list
• State of the Django Panel - DjangoCon US
  • DSF represented by Frank
• Weblog summary of Carlton’s short talk
  • for twitter, blog

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