A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on December 14, 2017. Frank Wiles led the meeting.

Attendance

Present

• Frank Wiles
• Rebecca Conely
• Kenneth Love
• Daniele Procida
• James Bennett

Absent (excused)

• Ken W. Alger

Treasurer's Report

• Balance
• Rebecca reports that there is +/- $227, 000
• Catherine figured out we can do a lot of disbursement with PayPal and save tons on fees.

Old Business

• Djangopackages.org
• Fellowship update
• Malcolm award nominations - will be done Friday 11th (Daniele)
• "So you want to run a DjangoCon" guidance
• • DjangoCon Japan
  • DjangoCon Korea
  • DjangoCon Africa
• Conflict of Interest and Whistleblower policies
• Member nomination form

New Business

• Corporate Memberships
• Sponsorship Requests
• DjangoGirls
• Accra - Still waiting for info
• Borno - Next year
• Yola
• Ouagadougou
• GirlScript India
• Open Source Academy - The Gambia, need to choose amount
• PyCon Namibia Bursary
• 2018 DSF Board Election Process
• 39 Candidates
• Ballot will be made public on 15 Dec 2017 and run until 20 Dec 2017.
• Election results will be announced on 22 Dec 2017.
• Members can vote for up to 6 people. Anyone who votes over 6 will have their ballot thrown out. Any ties will be determined by `random.choice()`
• PyCon Namibia (20-22 Feb) - Danielle and Anna to follow up
• Consider renaming Django Fellowship to be a ‘Residency’ to remove gender implications - Frank will check if this changes legal status of contractor
• Conflict of Interest and Whistleblower policies
• New DSF member nominations
• Emmanuelle Delescolle
• Païvi Suomela
• Tom Dyson
• Matt Westcott
• Rebecca Conley
• Grant policies and preferences similar to what PSF wrote?

Next Meeting

January 2018, TBD

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