A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on Thursday, 21 June 2018, Frank Wiles led the meeting.

Attendees

• Anna
• Daniele
• Frank
• James
• Katie
• Rebecca

Treasurer’s Report

• Balance
  • $165K
  • Everything switched over to BofA so we can close Chase account.
• Need to find an accountant or tax preparer who knows Xero. Filed extension, 990 due Nov. 15
  • ACTION: James to speak with Frank
• Facebook/Insta invoice sent in March. Have not received funds yet.
• Do we have a contact there? Invoice was sent to Mikey K.
• What are the expectations of Adrienne? Can we delineate those?
• RC submitted annual filing to KS Secy of State
• ACTION: Open an Expressions of Interest for a part-time fundraising co-ordinator

Recurring Business

• Sponsorship requests: Trello, record of grants awarded, AutoForm
  • plus numerous Django Girls events
    • Django Girls Kansas City 2018
    • Django Girls Kwahu
• New DSF member nominations (Manual), DSF Membership Nominations AutoForm
  • Norma Driske
  • Öykü Gümüs
  • Timo Zimmermann
  • Raphael Michel
  • Tobias Kunze
  • Yang Huanqun
  • Loveth Bidel Nkongho
    
  • Mounish Kokkula
  • Tiberius Hefflin
  • Michael Clark
  • Noah Alorwu
• Member Form Meta
  • expressions of interest to create an integrated form on djangoproject to ease process
  • Action: Rebecca and Daniele to draft a specification
• Corporate Memberships
  • Django Stars[g][h]
• Domains (Rebecca)
  • .eu domains have to be owned by someone in the EU, so Jannis is keeping the domain for now
  • Possible: Dutch Django Association? Change to a djangcon.org with subdomains?
    • ACTION Daniele will find a DDA person to chat about this at DCEU[i]
• Election Software
  • Frank’s investigates found nothing better out there
  • Considering Helios
  • (see private notes)
• Meeting Minute Backlog
  • 2018 - Jan-May drafts up on flatpages and linked!
  • ACTION: Katie to keep up to date with this stuff
• DjangoCons
  • DjangoCon Europe 2018 happened!
  • DjangoCon AU ticket post - ACTION Katie

New Business

Sourced from DSF-board, DSF-members lists

• Membership form changes
  • Clarify membership nomination and approval process and then make changes and blog post.
    • What is process from start to finish now that we have form?
    • How do we get community vetting/input after form submitted? With email there was a natural comment period.
    • What are criteria for nominating someone for membership (is this written anywhere)?
    • What are criteria for approving a member?
    • What are expectations of members once approved?
• Requests for grants
  • Trello
  • Our form
• Corporate Membership Applications
  • Django Stars - if approved, we need to signal to community that their name is an approved exception
• DSF permanent address? EarthClass mail is Andrew McKay, means checks stay in limbo sometimes. Where are all the places the address is listed? Should it just be the treasurer’s address?
• Can we approve an amount for DSF board members to go to PyCon Nigeria (AM and RC)? Need to purchase tickets in order to apply for Visa.
• From Markus Holtermann: Superfeedr Credit Card isn’t working anymore and needs to be updated by June 23rd
• GDPR - Frank
  • ACTION: Frank to talk to Ops about stopping logging of the IPs

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