Monthly PyLadies Meeting Notes: 3rd February 2022 @ 8pm UTC

[MmeMarieLouise]

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PyLadies Global Meeting

• Date: 3rd February 2022
• Previous meeting issue link:
• Current meeting attendees: @JUpani @julianafalves @econchick @BethanyG @Sonacrystal @MmeMarieLouise

Agenda

Please add items as needed. If you add a topic please make sure to attend the meeting.

• decide on outstanding votes !!
  - pyladies auction entry fee
  - was funded by PSF, but now they would like us to fund it - $18,000 . if we charged $5 it wouldn't be enough.
  - what should we increase the fee to ? If we raise it too high some people wouldn't be able to attend, but if it's too low it would cost us

• we didn't make our decision public about decision to skip election last year

• blockers, we might be able to get sponsors to help with costs

• how do we feel about a two tier cost ??

• @MmeMarieLouise YES

• @JUpani YES

• @julianafalves YES

• @Sonacrystal YES

• @BethanyG YES

• @econchick YES

• pycon, how should contribute ?????

- chapter budgeting system

• should we give out money before we have a better fundraising model ? How can we generate money outside of pyladies auction at pycon

• we could have a temp budget to give out while we're figuring out our fundraising stream

• could we have chapters request funds, instead of giving money (with a limit)?

• @MmeMarieLouise YES

• @julianafalves YES

• @econchick YES

• @Sonacrystal YES

• @JUpani YES

• @BethanyG YES

• How do we share funds to pyladies chapters

  • by event type?

  • by expense type?

  • by location and chapter ?

  • there may be circumstances that we cant predict, there are too many nuances. we could have a rough number like $40k i.e they divide it up ?

  • should it be a guideline to manage expectations of an ask ? be clear to everyone that we have a process.

  • Let's inform all chapters that they can request for grants (we can put it on the website)

  • @Sonacrystal YES

  • @BethanyG YES

  • @MmeMarieLouise YES

  • @econchick YES

  • @JUpani YES

  • @julianafalves YES

let's not give out a budget per chapter (put the budgeting system on hold) until we have a better fundraising set up,( we can learn about the chapter based on their requests)

• @econchick YES
• @BethanyG YES
• @JUpani YES
• @MmeMarieLouise YES
• @julianafalves YES
• @Sonacrystal YES

don't give limit to the requests?

-active pyladies chapters definition

Project Updates

1. Project Comms (Slack: #project-communication / Repo: https://github.com/pyladies/project-communications)

2. Project Admin & Logistics (Slack: #project-admin-logistics / Repo: https://github.com/pyladies/project-admin-logisitics )

3. Project Tech & Infra (Slack: #project-tech-infra / Repo: https://github.com/pyladies/pyladies )

Review Actions Items from Last Meeting

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Old Business: Follow up items from prior meeting:

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Action Items and Assignees for Next Meeting

Action Item	Owner	Relevant links

@pyladies/pyladies-global-contributors
@pyladies/pyladies-global-admin