Plone Foundation Board Minutes May 07, 2020

Meeting called to order at 19:00 UTC

Housekeeping

Attendance

Present: Chrissy Wainwright, Fulvio Casali, Erico Andrei, Paul Roeland, Andy Leeb, Victor Fernandez de Alba

Absent: Jens Klein

Approval of the minutes of April 23, 2020

Victor moved to approve, Erico seconded

Unanimously Approved

Action Items

• x

Incoming Correspondence

• we had a request to see if we wanted to take over a domain that has "plone" in it

  • Chrissy will respond

New Business

• Sponsorships

  • Kim Nguyen

    • recurring meeting with Chrissy

    • sponsorship db on plone [dot] org slash sponsors

      • logos displayed via a Sponsorship ContentType
      • level is controlled via a field in the CT
      • in depth description of how the sponsorship database works
      • will continue to work on sponsorship
    • some internals on processing sponsor payment 

  • is plone (field) still worthwhile? maybe we can have a way to auto populate the plone, less maintenance
    

    • could be a gatsby site

Continued Business

• Plone Conf 2020

• Zope Domains

• GitHub Sponsors Status

• review ongoing

Review Ongoing

• Plone Conf 2020

  • will need to follow up on the virtual part of the conference
  • plone branded facemasks
  • would be hard to push back to 2021

  • we need to wait to assess closer to the date
    

    • make it entirely a virtual conf if we cancel the physical one
  • what is the bar for deciding to cancel the conference?

  • deadline for decision is June 4

    • invite conference organizers

• Zope Domains

  • no new responses
  • there is some runway before expiration

• GitHub sponsor

  • coordinate within communication team to publicize

• Review Ongoing

  • funka [dot] com, EU funded program to improve accessibility for content creators

    • project is starting up, Paul is involved
    • focusing on Plone 6, Volto editor
    • currently at TOR (terms of reference) phase

    • this is a research project so ideas are welcome

      • for example, AI image inspection
  • password manager finalization

  • Rikupekka Oksanen is now team lead for communication and marketing!

    • Thank you Kim for your service executing this role and successfully passing the crown!
• [Executive Session]

Erico moved to adjourn, Paul seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 19:59 UTC