Plone Foundation Board Minutes November 05, 2020
Meeting called to order at 19:02 UTC
Housekeeping
Attendance
Present: Chrissy Wainwright, Fulvio Casali, Erico Andrei, Paul Roeland, Jens Klein, Andy Leeb, Victor Fernandez de Alba
Absent:
Approval of the minutes of October 20, 2020
Erico moved to approve, Paul seconded
Unanimously Approved
Action Items
New member added to mailing list
- Secretary sent notification
- News Item pending
Incoming Correspondence
- x
New Business
Prep for annual meeting
- Chrissy will work on this in the upcoming weeks
- Paul/Andy will get you a list of new contributor agreements
- Add a section about doing the plone conf virtual
- Zope members
- Other topics that should be included - let us know!
Continued Business
Plone Conference 2020
Schedule looks great! Its going to be an awesome conference
Sponsors are shaping up
creation of a new 'Diamond' level
Finances are looking good for us
Python Foundation inquired about diversity
free tix for the French track
- Dorneles Treméa Scholarship Fund
List of trainings
- touch base with trainers
- need a schedule
- would be great to have Zoom rooms for the trainings
Renewal cycle
see above Prep for annual meeting
Zope Domain
we have a contingency plan with zope.dev, but may break existing setups
trademark is still in effect
review ongoing
Review Ongoing
- Membership renewal is going as expected, some issues nothing too big
- Sponsorships - Fulvio will take that on
- Erico mentioned Plone at a PythonBrasil conference, maybe we'll see some conference attendees
Plone 6
- bootstrap is pretty much prod ready
current documentation is outdated, it will need to be rewritten
- WSGI, Zope4/5 - really technical docs
Volto
- will need to have a meeting to figure out integration
- how to install with Plone 6, installer, cli, tooling
- need tooling champion - plone conf sprint could be ideal place for planning
- Plone Steering Committee should be used for this
Open Spaces:
- Scheduled for Friday (of the conference)
- Plone 6/Volto integration
We have a Travis CI issue
- plone core is fine
- add-on infrastructure will need to be moved
- should probably be moved to github actions
- Google Summer of Code
- project times are shortened
- projects will need to be smaller, achievable in ~1.5 months
- is it worth it - different projects, different mentoring
- types of projects submitted/accepted could change, maybe younger students will be interested
Internship
- second round of submission
World Plone Day
- plan on a virtual one
Erico moved to adjourn, Paul seconded
Unanimously approved
Meeting adjourned at 19:53 UTC