5.1   Communication Status

D. Hellmann, Communication Officer, reported continued activities from last month, by saying:

1. Paulo Nuin is working on a post about the PyPI mirroring project.
2. Engelbert Gruber is working on interview questions for a post about the new PyCon web site.

As far as new activities for the month are concerned, he reported:

1. Jobs Board Maintainer change post by Mike Driscoll

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/12/python-jobs-board-maintainer-changing.html

2. SciPy India grant post by Paulo Nuin

   http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2010/12/psf-supports-2010-scipy-india.html

For items planned for next month and ongoing projects, D. Hellmann reported respectively:

1. Post linking to the news article about Vern Ceder's Python programming class for high school students.

Facebook stats, as of 13 Dec.

5.2   Core Development Tasks

B. Cannon, Core Development Tasks Project, will begin working on this 2-month project in January 2011. B. Cannon said, "My goal is to have the dev docs finished by the end of January with hopes of having a very solid (with hopes of substantial) start on the Python 2 to 3 porting HOWTO."

5.3   HAM WebPages/Links

P. Campbell, Honorary Associate Membership (HAM) WebPages Start-up Project, reported continued activities from last month, by saying "Andrew Kuchling of Matrix Maxx and Kurt Kaiser our PSF treasurer are now working together with MatrixMaxx, a CMS program and PayFlow Pro, an accounting program to make the new Honorary Associate Membership a reality.

With the use of the MatrixMaxx program our expectations are for full automation of the HAM membership signup, fee payment, annual renewals, etc. without the need for manual intervention."

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "Happy to see that we may soon have some movement on being able to sign up HAMs. That's been stalled for too long now."

5.4   Infrastructure Committee

S. Reifschneider, Infrastructure Committee Chair, reported the following work initiated for the month:

1. Martin set up DNS for the Polish Python Coders group.They were losing access to their previous domain at www.python.org.pl because the domain owner wanted to commercialize it. COMPLETED.

5.5   Marketing Material

M.A.Lemburg, Marketing Material Project Manager, presented a marketing material proposal to the board that was discussed and voted on (see topic below for vote results -- Pre-Finance & Underwrite Python Brochure).

5.6   Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront

The project leader, M.A. Lemburg, Moving PyPI to Amazon CloudFront, provided a purpose for his project by saying, "The project is intended to improve the availability, uptime and performance of PyPI for use by automatic package installation tools.

The main idea is to make all PyPI static content available via Amazon Cloudfront, a content delivery network maintained by Amazon."

MAL hopes to get his project started by early 2011. He would also like to start recruiting for volunteers to help implement the startup facets of the project.

5.7   PyCon US Website

D. Napoleone, PyCon US Website Project, reported continued activities from last month, by saying:

1. Registration Launched

   Registration is now live, and after a minor problem with donation notifications, has worked with no problems. We have record registrations for this period.

2. Talk, Tutorial, and Poster reviews are progressing

   There were some minor complications with the software for reviewing submitted materials, but they have all been resolved.

For items planned for next month and ongoing projects, D. Napoleone reported respectively:

1. New schedule system from Eldarion
2. Bug fixes and feature requests.
3. Archival of old PyCon websites.

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "I'd like to be sure the PyCon website is supporting financial assistance properly - jnoller, any idea on that?"

10. Noller: "FA (Financial Aid) is accepting applications."

19. Holden: "Fine, thanks."

5.8   Sprint Committee

J. Noller, Sprint Committee Chair, reported continued activities from last month, by saying he was "shifting gears to accept applications for funding from all python projects."

Board Discussion:

S. Holden: "Glad sprints have widened their scope and look forward to seeing the new documentation."

5.9   Trademarks Committee

D. Mertz, Trademarks Committee Chair, reported continued activities from last month by saying the committee "received several requests for use of logo and/or wordmark. In all cases during the last two months, the requested use was purely nominative and no additional discussion by the committee was required.The chair or a member provided clarification to requester in each case."

9.1   Indebtedness to D. Goodger

The board discussed the need to move forward on several time-sensitive payments to be made to PSF member D. Goodger for services rendered to the organization.

9.2   Message of Seasonal Cheer!

Towards the end of the meeting the chairman (S. Holden) thanked everyone for their hard work and wished everyone "the best for the holidays."

20. Peters: "Cheers!"

19. Holden: "Have a great time, relax, come back refreshed next month!"

16. Campbell:"Happy Holidays"

M.A. Lemburg: Cheers, Happy Holidays!"

7. Willadsen: "Have a great holiday!

10. Rush: "Happy Holidays to all!
11. Kaiser: "Merry Xmas!"