Hi everyone, The PSF board meeting minutes from 29th June are now available online at [1]. This was the second meeting of the new board. There were 5 directors present, and 2 sent in proxy vote. The board approved of a new PSF Sponsor working group[2]. This group will help in reviewing sponsorship applications. PSF board also approved the Community Service Award winners, Ned Batchelder, and Stéphane Wirtel. Thank you for your valuable contribution to the community, and PSF. We now also have PSF General Counsel Officer post, Van Lindberg is appointed to the post for 2016/2027 term. The following grants were also approved from our last meeting, totaling $51719. * PyCode Carrots Ostrava June 24-26, 2016 $650 * Django Girls Ahmedabad August 27, 2016, Ahmedabad, India $300 * Pycon-Pydata Colombia 2016 February 10th to 11th of 2017 $3000 * Python class Nepal Lumbini Engineering College, Nepal $270 * Django Under the Hood 2016 November 3-6, 2016 Amsterdam $2773 * Django Girls PyCon UK September 15, 2016 in Cardiff, UK $365 * Django Girls Taipei July 9, 2016. Taipei $750 * PyCon-fr 2016 October 13-16 2016. Rennes, France $3000 * PyCon APAC 2016 13-15th August, Gangnam-gu, Seoul $10000 * Python Brazil 2016 13-18th October, 2016. Brazil $6000 * Techtonica Training Program San Francisco $2000 * Python Core Dev Sprint 2016 Menlo Park, CA in September 5-9, 2016 $12000 * FUTA Code Camp 2016 August 4-6, 2016 at the FUTA campus in Nigeria $1250 * FrogLabs Event 2016 August 19-21, 2016, Sankt Augustin, Germany $1111 * PyBay 2016 Conference August 19-21, 2016 in San Francisco $3000 * Digital Cotton Python programming camp July through August 2016 in Egypt $5250 For more updates from the PSF, please visit our blog[3] and follow us on Twitter[4]. [1] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2016-06-29/ [2] https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2016-06-29/#python-software... [3] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/ [4] https://twitter.com/ThePSF Kushal -- Director, Python Software Foundation Fedora Cloud Engineer CPython Core Developer http://kushaldas.in