Hi folks: The PSF board meeting minutes from April 12th, 2016 are now available online: https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2016-04-12/ There are also a few new posts on the PSF blog since my last email to you all. Thanks Mary Ann & Jesse! https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2016/05/brett-cannon-wins-frank-willison-award.... https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2016/05/cubaconf-day-1.html https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2016/05/python-and-open-source-alive-and-well.h... And today at OSCON, Brett Cannon was awarded this year's Frank Willison Memorial Award for more than a decade of CPython contributions as a core developer. He's also one of the kindest people I know :) Thanks Brett! https://www.python.org/community/awards/frank-willison/#brett-cannon-2016 https://twitter.com/oscon/status/733300837842194437 The PSF provides grants for development, conferences, workshops, and user groups. https://www.python.org/psf/grants/ The following grants were approved since my last report to you, totalling $5,460 USD. - WatPy, Waterloo Region Python Group http://www.meetup.com/WatPyMeetup/ Meetup.com fees Amount: $90 USD - Champaign-Urbana Python User’s Group http://www.meetup.com/Python-CU/ Meetup.com fees Amount: $120 USD - Django Girls Bilbao https://djangogirls.org/europython2016/ Bilbao, Spain July 17, 2016 Amount: $750 USD - PyCon Cameroon Workshops http://pyconcameroon.org/ Amount: $2000 USD - Kiwi PyCon 2016 https://nzpug.org/ Dunedin, New Zealand Sept 9-13, 2016 Amount: $2500 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