• Members Meeting Agenda July 2016

PSF Members Meeting Agenda for July 20, 2016

Meeting time: 18:00-19:00 GMT+2/CEST (Other timezones); EuroPython 2016, Bilbao, Spain.

Meeting venue: Eskalduna Conference Center, Meeting room: Room A2

Slides

Agenda Sections:

• PSF Members Meeting Agenda for July 20, 2016

  • New board

  • PSF Officers

  • Demystifying the Membership Model

  • Work groups

  • Mailing lists

  • Closing FYI

Slides here (PDF)

New board

Want to know more about them? Check out their blurb from the nominations!

1. Chair: Diana Clarke
2. Vice Chair: Naomi Ceder
3. Vice Chair: Van Lindburg
4. Carrie Ann Philbin
5. Carol Willing
6. Lorena Mesa*
7. Annapoornima Koppad*
8. Jackie Kazil*
9. Trey Hunner*
10. Kushal Das*
11. Younggun Kim*

PSF Officers

1. President: Guido VR
2. Chair: Diana Clarke
3. Treasurer: Kurt Kaiser
4. Communications: Lorena Mesa, Kushal Das

5. PyCon Chair: Brandon Rhodes

6. Director Operations: Ewa Jodlowska
7. Event Coordinator: Betsy Waliszewski
8. Vice Chair: Naomi Ceder
9. Vice Chair: Van Lindberg
10. Chief Counsel: Van Lindberg

Demystifying the Membership Model

Check out the awesome flow chart I made in 5 minutes

TL;DR of model:

• Basic Member: Anybody who wants to show their support for Python. No voting rights.
• Supporting Member: Gives an annual donation. Has voting rights.
• Sponsoring Member: Organizations that give annually ($ suggested based on size). Approved by vote of PSF members. Delegate of the org can vote.
• Managing Member: Gives ≥ 5hrs to PSF working group(s). Has voting rights.
• Contributing Member: Gives ≥ 5hrs to Python OSS. Has voting rights.
• Fellows: Nominated by the member community. Has voting rights.

More information can be found here.

Work groups

• What it is: active management of a project that benefits PSF

• Current examples:

  • Education
  • Grants
  • Sponsorship
  • More here

• More information on WG's is on the wiki (accessible only if a voting member)

• Can create your own - but we’re still smoothing out the process

Mailing lists

• Just join psf-member-announce; info here

• Hang tight, will announce once we settle on what to do with -members

Closing FYI

PSF will reimburse you Meetup fees! See python.org/psf/grants for details. (And you can create up to 3 meetup groups with one account!)