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 _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community