Hi folks:
The PSF board meeting minutes from March 9th, 2016 are now available online:
https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2016-03-09/
We are also pleased to announce that we've added another blog post
writer to the team: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. Welcome to the team, Jesse!
And a huge thanks to Mary Ann Sushinsky who has written over 60 blog
posts for the PSF – we're looking forward to her 100th post!
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/
https://emptysqua.re/blog/two-articles-for-psf/
Jesse's first two blog posts highlight the first quarter 2016
Community Service Award recipients, Jacqueline Kazil & Damien George.
Congratulations and thank you, Jackie & Damien!
https://www.python.org/community/awards/psf-awards/#march-2016
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2016/04/auctioneer-jackie-kazil.html
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2016/03/genuinely-nice-chap-damien-george.html
In my last email to you all, we announced that we hired an IT Manager.
Meet Mark Mangoba & learn more about what he'll be working on here:
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-psf-has-hired-it-manager.html
On the PSF blog, you will also find a guest post by Nicholas Tollervey
about the BBC micro:bit launch with MicroPython: One Million Children!
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-million-children.html
The PSF provides grants for development, conferences, workshops, and
user groups.
https://www.python.org/psf/grants/
The following grants were approved since the last board meeting,
totalling $16,325 USD.
- PyLadies Toronto
http://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-Toronto/
Meetup.com fees
Amount: $180 USD
- PyLadies Sao Paulo
http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSP/
Meetup.com fees
Amount: $30 USD
- PyLadies SF
http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/
Meetup.com fees
Amount: $90 USD
- Helsinki PyLadies Sprint
http://www.meetup.com/Helsinki-PyLadies/events/228703144/
Match 2016
Amount: $250 USD
- Django Girls Harare Worksphop
https://djangogirls.org/harare/
Harare, Zimbabwe
April 9, 2016
Amount: $750 USD
- DjangoGirls OAU
https://djangogirls.org/oau/
Obafemi Awolowo Univeristy, Ile Ife, Nigeria
April 15-16, 2016
Amount: $800 USD
- SciPy Latin America
http://conf.scipyla.org/scipyla2016/
Florianópolis, Brazil
May 16-20, 2016
Amount: $2000 USD
- Nashville Technology Council Python Camp
http://technologycouncil.com/
Nashville, USA
June 2016
Amount: $2500 USD
- PyCamp Argentina
February 19-20, 2016
Amount: $600 USD
- CS@SC Summer Camp
http://summercamps.usc.edu/
University of Southern California, USA
June 2016
Amount: $3125 USD
- Afro-Django Initiative
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
April & May, 2016
Amount: $1000 USD
- DjangoCon US
https://2016.djangocon.us/
Philadelphia, USA
July 17-22, 2016
Amount: $5000 USD
For more updates from the PSF, please visit our blog and follow us on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/ThePSF
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/
Cheers,
--diana
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