Hi everyone, The PSF board meeting minutes from 14th June are now available online at [1]. This was the first meeting of the newly elected board. At the beginning of the meeting, the new officers were elected. The positions and the names of the board members are given below. * Chair of Python Software Foundation -- Diana Clarke * Vice chairs of Python Software Foundation -- Van Lindberg, and Naomi Ceder * Communications Officers -- Lorena Mesa, and Kushal Das * Treasurer -- Kurt Kaiser * Secretary -- Ewa Jodlowska * Assistant Secretary -- Betsy Waliszewski * Conference Chair for PyCon 2017 -- Brandon Rohdes It was also agreed that PSF will aquire pythonineducation.org domain name, which will be used as an index site highlighting education related Python projects around the world. PSF will also extend the partnership agreement with the BBC, the Chair will sign the agreement on behalf of the PSF. The following grants were also approved, totaling $12330 USD * Mountain View Algorithm Design Meetup May 21, 2016 $300 * BBC micero:bit project UK's Blanc Ltd will do initial design for the new education site, will contain at least BBC micro:bit, Raspberry Pi Foundation, and annual Education tracks, and events in Python conferences. $8400 * Kumasi Tech Community 23rd July, 2016 Adum, Kumasi, Ghana http://hapaspace.com/category/kumasi-tech-community/ $500 * School of Computational Intelligence, Nigeria For a 6 months training program https://sci.ng/ $1500 * Django Girls Seattle June 24-25, 2016 Seattle https://djangogirls.org/seattle/ $630 * Electromagnetic Field Camp Honorarium to Paul Sokolovsky for MicroPython talk In EMF camp August, 2016 $1000 The Grants Working Group also granted the following two grants. * Grants WG: RESOLVED: that the Python Software Foundation’s Grants Working Group grant $750 USD for the Seoul-Django Girls Workshop that is happening on June 4, 2016. Approved 6-0-0 on May 13, 2016 * Grants WG: RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation’s Grants Working Group grant $2000 USD for the PyLadies Conference happening in February 2017 in southern California. Approved 7-0-0 on May 19, 2016 For more updates from the PSF, please visit our blog[2] and follow us on Twitter[3]. [1] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2016-06-14/ [2] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/ [3] https://twitter.com/ThePSF Kushal -- Fedora Cloud Engineer CPython Core Developer http://kushaldas.in