​Greetings PSF Community,

On July 24th 2018 the PSF Board voted on and approved meeting minutes from​ the PSF Board's May 31 2018 meeting. The entirety of the meeting minutes can be found at - https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2018-05-31/.

Below are the high level details from the May 2018 meeting.

The following members of the Board of Directors (11 of 13) were present at the April meeting: Lorena Mesa, Naomi Ceder, Paul Hildebrandt, Thomas Wouters, Trey Hunner, Eric Holscher, Kenneth Reitz, Paola Katherine Pacheco, Jackie Kazil, Ewa Jodlowska, and Van Lindberg.

The PSF Sponsor Work Group approved the following sponsors: Yo Bits (Iron Level), MotorHome Republic (Iron Level), StickerYou (Copper Level).

The PSF Board approved the hire of Ernest W. Durbin as Director of Infrastructure for the PSF. Additionally the following new members were added to the PSF Code of Conduct Work Group: Anwesha Das, Brett Cannon, Jeff Triplett, Kenneth Reitz, Maricela Sanchez Miranda, Philip James, Rami Chowdhury, Sasha Romijn, Thomas Wouters

Approved 11-0-0

The following grants were also approved from our last meeting by the PSF Grants Work Group, totaling $16,102.75 USD :

 * $2500 USD to the PyConWeb conference happening in Munich, Germany June 30, 2018

* $300 USD to the PyLadies meet up event happening in Eket, Nigeria June 9, 2018

* $280 USD to the Python Meet Up event happening in Minna, Nigeria May 26, 2018

* $3000 USD to the Python Cerrado conference happening August 18, 2018

* $570 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Gliwice, Poland June 9, 2018

* $5,416.75 USD (~R$ 19.470,00) to the Python Brasil conference happening on October 17, 2018, in Natal, Brasil.

* $388 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines June 30, 2018

* $438 USD to the Python Study Group Meetup that is happen throughout 2018 in Felton, California

* $480 USD to the PyCode Carrots event happening in Szczecin, Poland May 11, 2018

* $750 USD to the Django Girls event happening in Oyo, Nigeria May 26, 2018

* $1980 USD to sponsor PyLondium  happening June 8, 2018 in London UK.

The following grants were denied: 

* $2200 USD to the LetsPY 18 BootCamp happening in Nagpur, India June 8, 2018​

Approved at the PyCon 2018 board meeting, the board approved that the 2018 recipients of the Frank Willison Award be Audrey Roy Greenfeld and Daniel Roy Greenfeld.

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Thanks all!
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Lorena Mesa
Co-Organizer, PyLadies Chicago
Director, Python Software Foundation

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