A regular meeting of the Django Software Foundation Board of Directors was held on Thursday, 10th May, 2018. Frank Wiles led the meeting.

Attendees

• Daniele
• Anna
• James
• Katie
• Rebecca

Apologies: - Frank (PyCon US Travel)

Treasurer’s Report

• Balance
  • $180K (just made last Channels payment)
  • 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

Recurring Business

• Sponsorship requests:
  • Amount for DjangoCon AU Keynote travel - 950USD
  • Approved: Wagtail US, DjangoCon AU Keynote Speaker, PyCon Ghana ($2,000USD),
  • How do we know a proposed PyCon is sanctioned by the PSF?
    • KM: Listing on pycon.org, or a domain from there, seems Official
  • plus numerous Django Girls events
    • Katsina, Harare, Delta, AfroDjango (1500), Varanasi India, HackWeakend
• New DSF Member Nominations
  • None
  • Frank discussing updating wording on dsf-members
  • New automatic form linked above
  • Added member voting to autoform, with counter votes
  • ACTION: Rebecca form improvements, resend to members who aren’t approved now
• Corporate Memberships
  • Cadre
  • JBS
• 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?
• DjangoCons
  • DjangoCon Europe 2018 end of month
    • Three DSF Directors in attendance
  • So you want to hold a Django conference is now live and listed in menus.
  • Daniele posted call for proposals for DjangoCon Europe 2019
  • Daniele invited Django Conference Korea organisers to submit application (nothing so far from them)
  • DjangoCongress Japan declined invitation of funds!
  • DEFNA contract - Frank to check length of contract, seeing if renewal required

New Business

Sourced from DSF-board, DSF-members lists

• Blog post for Membership form
  • Rebecca to do one - open for feedback
• PyCon Nigeria - board member attend
• Rebecca and Anna got in touch with Aisha, plan to attend.
• Djangocrew.com
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/85jjtq/psa_django_crew_is_scraping_and_rehosting_content/
  • ACTION: Frank to contact djangocrew to stop using trademark, CoC violations

Next Meeting

• 21 June 2018, 1600 EST (0600 AEST)

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