Monthly PyLadies Meeting Notes: Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 10PM UTC

[econchick]

PyLadies Global Meeting

• Date: April 9th, 2024
• Previous meeting issue link: Monthly PyLadies Meeting Notes: Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 10PM UTC #145
• Current meeting attendees: @BethanyG @JUpani @trallard @MmeMarieLouise @Sonacrystal @econchick

Agenda

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

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

Action Item	Owner	Relevant links	Completed

New Business

• Award pins ($280 for 50) & award plaques (?) - @econchick
• PyLadies badge ribbons for PyCon? ~$150-200 for 500 - @econchick
• FYI: PyCon expenses: t-shirts, stickers - @econchick
• FYI: confirmed we have a booth @ PyCon
• Heroku expenses (<$15 / month) - @econchick
  • some already use Netlify for static
  • Netlify and Fastly want to support FOSS - maybe free dynamic hosting?
• Organizer burnout - @econchick
  • meeting at PyCon about organizer burnout?
  • let's talk about offboarding as an organizer, volunteer at the global level
  • no one should be a single point of failure
  • let's have a BoF session for PyLadies organizers (and general PyLadies?)
  • 💡 collect feedback from organizers?
    • what are they frustrated about
    • what do they want from us
    • what are we able to do for them
• Ask: schedule tweets & linkedin posts re: PyLadiesCon videos from now to PyCon US - @econchick
  • revisit paying for Buffer or a Buffer-like service
  • free version of Buffer limits amount of services and how far in advanced we can
    • free is up to 3 channels, at least a week in advanced
  • also: post about pyladies award recipients (blog post + tweets) right after we hand them the awards at PyCon
• Ask: review new static site (port to Hugo) PR - @econchick
  • Related: higher protections for merging? more than one review?
• PyLadies sprint @ PyCon?
  • maybe use a sprint day to have a convo about our website? (e.g. Hopefully the final attempt to migrate the PyLadies static website pyladies#649)
  • maybe all meet and plan a hackathon later in the year?
  • maybe "PyLadies sprint on anything but together in the same room"?

Old Business: Follow up items from prior meeting:

• @econchick has not yet updated CoC on kit & site 🙈
• @econchick is nearly done with PyLadies t-shirts
• have we all reviewed @MmeMarieLouise 's micro funding proposal?
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Action Items and Assignees for Next Meeting

Action Item	Owner	Relevant links
Make mockups of ribbons	@econchick
Follow up on organizer burn out	@econchick
Async convo on what we want in a refreshed static website (branding, colors, etc)	everyone
Mastodon write up & dogs	@BethanyG

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