Minutes of 2018-11-08 Board of Directors Meeting

A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on Thursday, 8 November 2018. Frank Wiles led the meeting.

Attendees

• Katie
• Frank
• Anna
• Daniele
• James

Apologies: Rebecca

Treasurer’s Report

• Balance
  • $134K (160?)
• Filed extension, 990 due Nov. 15
  • Landi working on 990.
• PyCharm Promotion
  • on track to 35k, (less than last year)
  • possible reasons - 13 months since last campaign, so annual renewal may have been done outside of dsf promotion
  • Metrics pending from JetBrains
• ACTION: Open an Expressions of Interest for a part-time fundraising co-ordinator
  • frank and anna working on
  • documentation in progress, anna waiting feedback
• Donor Acknowledgement
  • If we had a consistent fundraising person, it would be good to develop an acknowledgement process.
• Board Member willing to assemble event reports?
  • Frank willing to do this, but only for the larger events (not all DJG events)
• Elections
  • https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/
    • Frank to run full test on system before Nov 29
    • Opt-ins for test: Katie,
  • Action Frank: public blog post
  • Action Frank: ping all 2017 nominees
  • Anna/James: Are you running? You haven’t nominated yourselves yet
  • Nominations open until Nov 29
  • Voting from Nov 30 - Dec 7
  • Confirm with successful nominees
  • Email unsuccessful
  • Public announcement soon after
• Paid admin position ongoing (Catherine)?
  • assisting the treasurer, ensuring Django Fellows get paid
  • Hours from 2018: 272
  • Leaving for the Next Board™ 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)
  • DSF Members List - multiple threads
  • Give list 1 week for +1 nominations
  • ACTION: Daniele to consolidate list 1 week from meeting, and forward to Conduct Committee
  • View to have new members confirmed before voting period
• Member Form Meta
  • Expression Published https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/nov/04/individual-membership-system-cfp/
  • Some interest from some parties
• Corporate Memberships
  • • Domains (Rebecca) - no change in Oct. 
  • Possible: Dutch Django Association? Change to a djangcon.org with subdomains?
    • ACTION Daniele will find a DDA person to chat about this at DCEU
• Meeting Minute Backlog
  • Katie is terrible and will fix this soon(™)
• DjangoCons
  • DjangoCon Europe 2019
    • https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/oct/21/djangocon-europe-2019/
• Core Dissolving
  • James proposal on mailing list
  • Discussed on Panel™
  • “Order of the Pony”, “Equestrian Order of the Django Republic”
  • Fill with Inactive Core, then new appointments (like PSF Fellow)
  • and THEN still have the annual Malcolm Award
• State of the Django Panel - DjangoCon US
  • Happened
• Weblog summary of Carlton’s short talk
  • for twitter, blog
• Malcolm Award
  • ACTION FRANK: Announcement post, close on Dec 7

New Business

Sourced from DSF-board, DSF-members lists

• Tim Graham passing on baton