2021 Annual Meeting Minutes Thursday Oct 28, 2021

Meeting called to order at 16:40 UTC

Attendance

Plone Foundation Organizational report 2020-2021

  • Plone Foundation Board of Directors

    • Chrissy Wainwright - president
    • William Fennie
    • Erico Andrei - vice president
    • Paul Roeland
    • Jens Klein
    • Andy Leeb - secretary
    • Victor Fernandez de Alba

  • Liaisons:

    • Jens is Framework, Security liaison
    • Victor is Volto liaison
    • Erico is Marketing

  • Ambassadors:

    • Plone Ambassadors represent Plone in their region or market
      ● David Bain, Jamaica
      ● Leonardo Caballero, Venezuela
      ● Manabu Terada, Japan
      ● William Fennie, United States, Education
      ● Joël Lambillotte, Belgium, PloneGov
      ● Ramiro Batista, Brazil, PloneGov

  • Membership Committee:

    The Membership Committee reviews all applications for membership in the Foundation and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors.

    • Andy Leeb
    • Armin Stross-Radschinski
    • Asko Soukka
    • Chris Calloway
    • Érico Andrei, co-chair
    • Nejc Zupan
    • Peter Holzer
    • Philip Bauer
    • T. Kim Nguyen, co-chair
    • William Fennie

    • New Members

      The following new members have been approved. This year, we welcomed members of the Zope community. Welcome and thank you for your contributions to Plone and Zope! Below is the list of new members, which includes Zope Emeritus members who wished to become active Plone members:

      • Tiberiu Ichim
      • Nicola Zambello
      • Steve Piercy
      • Cleber Santos

  • New Contributors

    The following people signed contributor agreements this year. We are always excited to have new people contributing to the Plone codebase!

    1. Bittor Poza
    2. Cedrik Meis
    3. Christian Meier
    4. Christiane Mayer
    5. Daniela Mormocea
    6. Florian Danzmann
    7. Ibrahim Abdul Mujeeb
    8. Ion Lizarazu
    9. Jeff Heinrichs
    10. Joan Antoni Riera
    11. Jordan Vance
    12. Jordi Collell
    13. José Junior Oliveira
    14. Julien Cigar
    15. Kazuhiko SHIOZAKI
    16. Krisztina Elekes
    17. Laurent Lasudry
    18. Lur Ibargutxi
    19. Marcel Liebischer
    20. Martina Bustacchini
    21. Marwan Rabbâa
    22. Matteo Gamboz
    23. Maurizio Querzoli
    24. Michaël Launay
    25. Nagore Ruiz de Escudero
    26. Roger Boixader
    27. Rohit Kumar
    28. Sara Bianchi
    29. Thibaut Born
    30. Thijs Damsma
    31. Thomas Kastenholz
    32. Unai Etxaburu
    33. Valentin Dumitru
    34. Yuri Carrer


  • Plone Events

    • Sprints funded
      The Board helped fund the following strategic sprints:

      • Sorrento Fan Zone

  • Plone Conference 2021

    • The Plone Foundation took over the organization for the conference again this year and became the financial agent for the conference.

  • Evangelism & Outreach

    • Python Web Conf - March (Online)

      • We sponsored the event which included several Plone talks

    • CMS Garden

      • We continued our membership.

    • Various

      • Regular Plone 6 Early Adopters meetings
      • Apresentando o Plone 6 (PT-BR presentation showcasing Plone 6)
      • World Plone Day 2021

    • Sprints

      • Regular Plone Classic UI Sprints
      • Regular Zope Sprints
      • Plone 6 Micro-Sprints
      • Plone Relations Sprint
      • “Not-an-Alpine-City-Sprint” Sprint

    • Sponsorships
      Fulvio Casali is in charge of the sponsor management.

      This year’s sponsors follow.

      • Premium

        • Enfold
        • Jazkarta
        • Six Feet Up
        • Soliton
        • Starzel
        • Syslab
        • theVirtual

      • Standard

        • Affinitic
        • Agile.coach
        • Cloud19
        • DeSlotenwacht
        • Eau De Web
        • Kombinat Media Gestalter
        • Maid2Clean
        • Operun
        • RedTurtle
        • Unified Digital
        • Zopyx

      • Providers listed on Plone.com

        • Affinitic
        • Agile.coach
        • Agitator
        • Alteroo
        • BlueDynamics Alliance - Klein & Partner KG
        • Business Webbing Systems
        • cloud19 web solutions & services
        • CodeHutLabs
        • CodeSyntax SL
        • Eau De Web
        • Enfold Systems
        • Flying Circus Internet Operations
        • Jazkarta
        • Juizi.com
        • Kombinat Media Gestalter
        • Mooball Technologies
        • operun Digital Solutions
        • PythonUnited
        • RedTurtle
        • Six Feet Up, Inc.
        • Soliton Consulting
        • Starzel
        • Syslab.com
        • Tecnoteca srl
        • TheVirtual Limited
        • Thomas Schorr
        • Unified Digital
        • UWD
        • Zest Software BV
        • ZOPYX

      • Plone Foundation Heroes

        As always, a very special thanks also to our individual sponsors:

        • Correa Balier
        • Eric Steele
        • Franco Pellegrini
        • Ian Dotson
        • Lucas Aquino
        • Paul Roeland
        • T. Kim Nguyen

    • 2021 - 2022 Board
      We will have our first meeting later this month to determine roles for the next year.

      Jen Myers decided to step down as treasurer after this year. She will be replaced by Beth Smith from SixFeetUp. We give Jen many thanks for her willingness to serve as treasurer for the last several years.

      • Paul Roeland
      • Andy Leeb
      • Érico Andrei
      • Víctor Fernández de Alba
      • Jens Klein
      • William Fennie
      • Kim Paulissen
      • Treasurer: Beth Smith (non-voting)

Alexander moved to adjourn, pbauer seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 16:55 UTC