[pydotorg-www] Board Resolutions from April through June 2011 Board Meetings

Wed Aug 10 01:17:33 CEST 2011

Hi pydotorg team:

Could you please add the following board resolutions from

the April through June 2011 board meeting to this web page:

http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/resolutions/

Please see list of board resolutions to be added below:

**RESOLVED**, that Jesse Noller is appointed the office of PyCon chair

 for the years 2012 and 2013.

Approved 10-0-1 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PyCon 2012/13 chair, Jesse Noller, is authorized

to sign the hotel contract for 2013 with the conference hotel as referenced
in

his email to the board on March 30.

Approved 9-0-1 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the following people be appointed as officers until the

next Board election (or their resignation).

   * **President**: Guido van Rossum

   * **Chairman**: Steve Holden

   * **Secretary**: Pat Campbell

   * **Treasurer**: Kurt Kaiser

   * **Communications**: Doug Hellmann

Approved 11-0-0 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF Board of Directors may adopt binding

resolutions between regularly scheduled full-board meetings by

email, subject to the following procedures:

 (1) Any Director may make a motion to the Board, using the published

Board mailing list address.

 (2) For a motion to pass, a "super-quorum" of 3/4 of the Directors MUST

participate in the email vote by stating 'Aye',  'Nay' or 'Abstain' to a
proposed

motion, with the vote appended  to a quoted version of the exact motion

proposed. In the case of a Board of 13 Directors, this will require 10
directors

to vote by email.

(3) For a motion to pass, an absolute majority of the whole Board MUST vote

'Aye'. In the case of a Board of 13 Directors, this will require 7 Aye
votes.

(4) Amended to: The proposing Director SHALL set a specific date and time

for expiration of a vote. The expiration date/time typically should be at
least

72 hours after the motion is proposed and shall not be less than 24 hours
after the

 motion is proposed, and may not extend past the next scheduled Board
meeting.

Votes are completed once all directors have voted even if this occurs before
the

expiration of the vote.

(5) The result of any vote conducted by email SHALL be included in the
minutes

of the next regularly scheduled Board meeting.

Approved 10-0-0 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that Laura Creighton and Tarek Ziade' be awarded the 2011 -

2nd Quarter PSF Community Service Award.

Approved 10-0-1 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.

 **RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide a grant of $1,000 US to sponsor the

 2011 Summer pyGames python based programming competition.

Approved 10-0-0 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.

 **RESOLVED**, that the PSF a single server for up to USD 4000 for the

speed.python.org project. The PSF will additionally try to raise funds to be

used for additional projects/hardware via a call for sponsors.

Approved 7-0-3 by IRC vote, 18 April 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide funding of $3,000 in discretionary

spending to allow Van Lindberg to provide the monies for the final
PyCon-related expenses.

Approved 7-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide a grant of $2,000 to sponsor the SciPy
2011

Conference to be held in Austin, Texas on July 11 through the 16th.

Approved 8-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide funding of $1,500 to the GNOME Foundation

for the 2011 Libre Graphics Meeting to be held in Montreal.

Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide funding of $1,500 USD to sponsor the

PyArgentina Conference (requested by Juan Rodríguez Monti).

Approved 6-0-2 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that David Mertz be appointed chairman of the Trademarks

Committee for 2011/2012.

Approved 8-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that Sean Reifschneider be appointed chairman of the

Infrastructure Committee for 2011/2012.

Approved 9-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that Jesse Noller be appointed chairman of the Sprints

Committee for 2011/2012.

Approved 8-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the reappointment of the individual members of the

Trademarks Committee, the Infrastructure Committee and the Sprints Committee

for the term 2010/2011 be delegated to the Chairman of the Board based on
the

proposals by the chairmen of the respective committees in accordance with
section

6.4 of the bylaws.

Approved 8-0-0 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the 2011 Frank Willison Award be awarded to Georg

Brandl. The award was initially announced at the 2011 EuroPython Conference.

Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 16 May 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF provide a USD $1,220 grant to PyLadies to support

the growth of this community, as outlined in Audrey Roy's grant proposal
PDF:

(
http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/psf-board/attachments/20110604/e982d484/attachment-0001.pdf)

Approved 10-0-0 by email vote, 5 June 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PyCon 2011 Chair is authorized to enter agreements,

sign contracts on behalf of the PSF and incur expenses up to a total of
$50,000 for

a specific conference, subject to prompt reporting to the Board. The limit
is waived

as soon as the budget for the specific conference has been approved by the
Board

of Directors. Thereafter the PyCon Chair is directed to inform the Board of
actual or

expected variances from the budget of $5,000 or more.

Approved 9-0-1 by email vote, 19 June 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the PSF form an official "Outreach and Education" project

management committee with the goals of identifying key initiatives, programs
and

subjects in this domain that the PSF can assist, fund or help guide. This
committee

will make recommendations to the membership, the board and its committees
and

act as a guiding hand for the PSF in this domain. The committee will be
chaired by

David Mertz (PSF Director). The initial membership will be the following
individuals:

Gloria Jacobs (PSF Director), Jessica McKellar, Daniel Greenfeld, Audrey
Roy, Ned

Batchelder, Asheesh Laroia, Simon Law and Yannick Gingras.

Approved 7-0-1 by IRC vote, 27 June 2011.

**RESOLVED**, that the Board recognizes the efforts expended by its
Administrator,

Pat Campbell, in furthering the development of the organization and the
mission of

the Foundation.

Approved 8-0-0 by IRC vote, 27 June 2011.

Thanks in advance for posting the above resolutions online. If you have any

questions, please let me know.

Pat

-- 
Pat Campbell
PSF Administrator/Secretary
patcam at python.org
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