Plone Foundation Board Minutes April 09, 2020

Meeting called to order at 19:07 UTC

Housekeeping

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

Absent:

Erico moved to approve, Paul seconded

Unanimously Approved

ITOnboard - multi-step program to get students into IT related job market (EU), internships
- Letter of Intent - does not commit PF to anything, but shows interest in the program
  - Board is happy to sign

GitHub sponsor status
- continuing to complete paperwork
  - Paul will check in with team to get/provide needed info
  - should be ready soon
Plone Conference
- preliminary site is being set up
- we are maintaining positivity that it will be a conventional in-person conf!
- will add branding, color scheme to show that work is being done
Marketing Team discussed
- PF statement about COVID-19
  - message of hope, and support for the community
  - possible online meetup for all community members
  - General discussion on how to encourage people to create contents about Plone
  - "What connects you with Plone?"
- Maybe a hashtag instead?
  - Market that we are still active, and provide ways to participate in online events, sprints etc, other online activities.
New project with accessibility firmWe4Authors - Kitconcept will handle most of it, but the real win is solid accessibility testing of Volto, which will allow Gov't adoption.

Zope Domains
- continuing the efforts!
US PyCon Cancelled
- general sadness
Euro Python
- general sadness
- it will be totally online, details TBD.
- sponsorship stuff is still unknown, we will find out more as information becomes available.

Erico moved to adjourn, Fulv seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 19:40 UTC