Minutes for December 16, 2010
Minutes of the Plone Foundation Board of Directors
Housekeeping
Attendance
Attending: Matt, Geir, Steve, Jon, Mark
Absent: Calvin, Alex (both with regrets)
Approve Minutes for December 2nd, 2010 board meeting
http://plone.org/foundation/meetings/minutes/minutes-for-december-2-2010
Jon moved approval
Mark seconded
Unanimously aproved
Old business
Domain acquisition progress
Tabled in Calvin’s absence
plone.net
Matt and Jon have kicked off discussions on this with interested folks
Guidelines for hosting User Group websites on Plone.org
Mark is lead on this; Guidelines still in progress
Setting up two new landing pages on plone.org - one for user groups (/users), one for education (/education)
Mark introduced this via e-mail. The education link will basically be a list of links to existing resources.
No dissent
Plone roadmap
Plone 3.3.6 release date
Steve is checking on this
Plone 5 roadmap research
Geir has checked with Hanno; Geir working with Hanno on compiling a document on what we already know before moving further
Committers/contributor agreement auditing
(how can we make sure all committers have signed the agreement? Is our process solid enough?)
Jon working on this; will collaborate with Toby
Geir is working on patch policy with SFLC
New Business
Membership Committee
Jon has made a call to foundation membership
Discussion of various recent reports on CMS systems
Conference/Marketing Events Budget
Mark had sent to the list a tiered list of events that we might include in our event sponsorship program for the next year. Sum of items: $16,275 with estimated total$18,000.
Matt moved acceptance of the marketing events budget as a draft.
Geir seconded
Unanimously approved
Version Control Hosting
Alex and Wyn have been looking into improving the machine on which we run svn/trac; this machine is owned by us and hosted at OSU-OSL.
Geir raised strategic question of whether or not we want a big investment in hardware for several years when things may be going to cloud or things like github. But, OSU is an awesome deal if we’re going to own hardware.
Jon proposed a discussion with the core developer team about this. Should we continue self-hosting svn/trac for another three year cycle, or move to a distributed system. Also, bug tracking/ ticketing and integration.
Jon will follow up with Alex, Wyn. Noted what great work Alex and Wyn have done in moving this discussion forward. Geir will lead discussion with core developers.