A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on November 2nd, 2015. Russell Keith-Magee led the meeting.

Attendance

Apologies

  • Jannis Leidel

    • Old Business

    Grants Committee

    Russell reported Anna has stood down from the grants committee.

    Trademark re-registration

    Andy reported no progress.

    DjangoCon Europe 2016

    Russell will meeting with Baptiste in November. Call for speakers will be done at Django Under the Hood.

    DjangoCon US 2016

    Nothing to report.

    Django Fundraising

    A donation of $10k USD received from DEFNA.

    Russell suggested that maybe the Foundation would consider hiring someone full time to do this. A cost of $8k USD would be the cost of the pilot.

    Proposed we do a formal tendering process on this? Not approved by the board.

    Proposed $8,500 USD for a 3 month pilot, ending at the end of January for Adrienne Lowe. The scope would be to raise $8,500 USD, but something approaching $20k USD would be fine. Approved by the board.

    Suggested that we include a comment about not repeatedly contacting corporate donors and that future contracts should be lower rate and commission based.

    Stacey suggested to change the fundraising page to differentiate between the fellowship and general fundraising. There is only a certain amount of money in the fund raising budget for the fellowship, so the DSF will start to have allocating money from the general funds (in November).

    For the fellowship there is $2k USD in the general pool and $6.5k USD in the December pool. The rest is pending money coming in.

    Federal grant number

    Stacey has started on Dun & Bradstreet number. Suggested we pay for a treasurer if funds allow? General approval from the board.

    Malcolm Tredinnick award

    Russell won, congratulations.

    Business done during the month

    Django Girls Taipei

    Suggested we fund at the standard $300 USD level, approved by the board.

    Django Girls Rome

    Suggested we fund at the standard $300 USD level, approved by the board.

    Django Girls Mendoza, Argentina

    Suggested we fund at the standard $300 USD level, approved by the board.

    Django Girls Warsaw

    Suggested we fund at the standard $300 USD level, approved by the board.

    Heroku usage

    Jacob currently paying $175 USD per month, we not sure if thats personal or not. Russell to follow that one up.

    ECCN

    Question came into the DSF about Export Control Classification Number (ECCN). No one has heard about this or knows what to do.

    Election

    Russell, Stacey, Jannis, Ola standing down. Andy was going to stand down, but later changed mind. Aiming for new board members to join before the December call.

    MOSS

    Mozilla grants available. Needs a Mozilla employee to assist in getting grants. Andy or Jannis can help.

    Next meeting

    14th December

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