A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on Thursday, 13 September 2018. Frank Wiles led the meeting.

Attendees

• Frank
• Katie
• James
• Daniele

Apologies: Anna, Rebecca (attending PyCon Nigeria)

Treasurer’s Report

• Balance
  • ??K
  • • Need to find an accountant or tax preparer who knows Xero. Filed extension, 990 due Nov. 15
  • Waiting for Landi to look at Xero
    • possibly spoken already
• 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) 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
    • 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.
• Corporate Memberships
  • • 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
• Meeting Minute Backlog
  • ACTION - Katie to clean up Jun/Jul minutes, make Aug, Sept minutes, present for approval Sept Oct
  • • 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
• Core Dissolving
  • James proposal on mailing list
• State of the Django Panel - DjangoCon US
  • DSF represented by Frank

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