Community Discussion Team

Manages Plone community discussion services, including Discord and Discourse

Responsibilities

The Plone Community Discussion Team is the steward of all Plone community discussion services, including the Discord chat server and the Discourse forum and any future services, software, and/or systems used to provide and support intra-community discussion.

  • Members of the Community Discussion Team will be periodically appointed from trusted Plone community members who maintain a long term view of the community’s needs.

  • The Community Discussion Team will develop and publish guidelines on the use of the supported discussion services.

  • The Community Discussion Team will develop and publish its internal decision making process.

  • The Community Discussion Team will have an identified team lead who will have certain responsibilities, including the following:

    • calling team meetings

    • recording discussion and decisions

    • reporting to and communicating decisions (if any) to the wider Plone community

    • periodically updating the team membership so it is comprised of actively engaged members

For additional background information about the need for the Community Discussion Team, see the governance proposal document.

Members

The Community Discussion Team members for 2022-2023 include:

  • Steve Piercy (team lead)
  • Paul Roeland
  • Rikupekka Oksanen
  • Jens Klein
  • T. Kim Nguyen

Contact details

The preferred channel of communication with the team is the Community Discussion Team mailing list: discussion@plone.org.