Plone Foundation Board Minutes October 22, 2020

Meeting called to order at 19:00 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 8, 2020

Paul moved to approve, Erico seconded

Unanimously Approved

Action Items

  • x

Incoming Correspondence

  • x

New Business

  • Membership approval

    • New member application unanimously approved for Mikel Larreategi

    • Andy will send welcome email, Paul will add him to the mailing list

    • News Item will be posted after notification

  • Funding request

    • Red Turtle requesting $600 USD for marketing, Paul motions to approve, Jens seconds, unanimously approved

Continued Business

  • Plone Conference 2020

    • 34 talk proposals, Guillotina, Volto included but no Zope or Pyramid yet

    • Panel proposal for editing content Barcelonetta vs Volto

    • We need to get more talk proposals!

    • Python Foundation grant submission deadline looms, we will need a schedule of talks as part of the application

    • Sponsorship page is up

    • [Executive Session]

  • Renewal cycle

    • Renewal team will begin efforts on this in the upcoming weeks

  • Zope Domain

    • Lawyers are working on it

    • A key actor has been identified as still among the living, and contact has been initiated, waiting on response

    • legacy buildouts may be impacted if the domain becomes unregistered

  • review ongoing

Review Ongoing

  • sponsorship request and logo is being sorted

  • AI Team - new member, merge with testing team is complete

    • jenkins needs some attention, transitioning is an on-going process
  • contributor agreement discussion
  • legacy server too expensive and specs are a few years out of date

    • 2 accounts with Hetzner:

      • Zope
      • Jenkins
    • these should likely be combined, AI team will work on this in the next calendar year
  • 2005 picture anyone have one?

Paul moved to adjourn, Erico seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 19:59 UTC