A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on Thursday, 9 Aug 2018. Frank Wiles led the meeting.

Attendees

• James
• Anna
• Katie
• Frank
• Rebecca

Apologies: Daniele

Treasurer’s Report

• Balance
  • $161K
  • Chase account will close automatically.
• Need to find an accountant or tax preparer who knows Xero. Filed extension, 990 due Nov. 15
  • Waiting for Landi to look at Xero
• ACTION: Open an Expressions of Interest for a part-time fundraising co-ordinator
• Donor Acknowledgement
• Board Member willing to assemble event reports?

Recurring Business

• Sponsorship requests: Trello, record of grants awarded, AutoForm
  • plus numerous Django Girls events
    • • 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.
• Corporate Memberships
  • Education Ecosystem
• Domains (Rebecca)
  • 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
  • (see private notes)
• Meeting Minute Backlog
  • ACTION - Katie to clean up Jun/Jul minutes, make Aug minutes, present for approval Sept
  • • DjangoCons
  • DjangoCon Europe 2018 happened!
  • DjangoCon AU ticket post - Done
  • DjangoCon Europe 2019 - Daniele has been attempting to find volunteers in Sweden

New Business

Sourced from DSF-board, DSF-members lists

• Membership form changes
  • ACTION: RC and DP will work on CFP
• Requests for grants
  • Trello
  • Our form
• Corporate Membership Applications
  • Education Ecosystem
• Where are we at with dissolution of core?
• RMOTR partnership with DSF
  • Frank to respond and say no.
• AKADEV permission to sell stickers with Django logo - via email
• DjangoCon Korea
  • Voted no.
• Address for thank you card from Django Girls Kansas
  • send to RevSys
• Microsoft Donation and possible corporate membership (Frank)
  • yes please
  • Frank to put Rebecca in touch
• Banner at PyCon Australia?
  • Katie to commission, sending invoice to Rebecca for reclaim
• Translations
  • In the future, personal “Hey do I know anyone who is fluent in X?” calls for help might be more useful than collecting fluency data
• Katie McLaughlin and Russell Keith-Magee are granted an Australia wide license to run DjangoCon AU for the next 2 years, until 2020.

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