Minutes for September 20, 2012

Meeting of the Board of Directors

meeting starts at 22:03 CET

attendance:
Matt, Carol, Sjoerd, Érico, Maurizio, Geir, Paul
Approval of the Minutes of September 6, 2012:
Érico moves to approve, Carol seconds. Unanimous approval.

UI Sprint funding request:
Work in progress, tabled for further discussion.
Recommendations for Membership
The Board has received recommendations to let four new Members into the Plone Foundation. As is usual, we make separate motions on them.
Nejc Zupan: Paul moves to approve, Érico seconds. Unanimous
Sjoerd van Elferen: Érico moves to approve, Carol seconds. Sjoerd abstains, for obvious reasons. Motion carries.
Jean Ferri: Sjoerd moves to approve, Carol seconds. Unanimous approval.
Nathan Van Gheem: Carol moves to approve, Sjoerd seconds. Unanimous approval.
Welcome to Nejc, Sjoerd, Jean and Nathan !
Plone Awards
Guido Stevens has pulled off a lot of work, and a beautiful site, at http://ploneawards.com/
The Board welcomes this initiative, and will help it where possible.
PyCon USA
The deadline for submissions for PyCon 2013 is already looming, at the 28th of september, they run a very early schedule.
Matt will let the Membership know, to try to get more Plone and Plone-related talks in.

Plone Conference 2013 Call for Proposals
The call has gone out, the schedule is set, let the proposals come in!
Plone Conference 2012 update
There will be a Plone Boat, which we hope many people will enjoy.
The Internet is up and running. The speed-tests were off the scales...
The conference will be designated a Fair Trade Conference!
There were some issues with the payment provider, a workaround has been widely communicated.
All other preparations are going well.
plone.com progress
There is a fair amount of activity, although it is also a juggling act to keep moving forward at steady speed without rushing.
Potential trademark violation
Matt needs to get in touch with the legal people.
Plone Foundation annual meeting
The preparations are taking place on the reporting, that should be ready by our next meeting.
60th Plone Tune-Up
Around 30 people have pledged to contribute, it looks set to be a very good Tune-Up.

Carol moves to adjourn, Sjoerd seconds, unanimous

meeting closes at 23:31