DSF Board monthly meeting, May 14, 2020

The meeting was led by Frank Wiles.

Board members in attendance were:

• Frank Wiles
• Anna Makarudze
• Will Vincent
• Sayantika Banik
• Kátia Nakamura
• Aaron Bassett

Also in attendance were:

• Catherine Holmes (Assistant to Treasurer)

Finances

Balance

USD $177,081.00

Ongoing business

Django survey

Need to re-work to include 2020 usage, etc.

Summer of Code 2020

Occurring again with 2 students and mentors, JSONField cross-db support from 2019 part of Django 3.1 in alpha.

Technical Board election

Frank has a draft voter-registration form.

New business

Fundraising page

Will added PR, need to add official merchandise and Github Sponsors to top. Revisit Amazon and Benevity links.

Google Season of Docs 2020

Django was accepted, more to come, but funding for part-time technical writer to improve the Contribution section of the Django docs.

Trademark rules

Revisit guidelines and advice to people asking about this.

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