Plone Foundation Board Minutes February 18, 2021
Meeting called to order at 19:03 UTC
Housekeeping
Attendance
Present: Chrissy Wainwright, William Fennie, Erico Andrei, Paul Roeland, Jens Klein, Andy Leeb, Victor Fernandez de Alba
Absent:
Approval of the minutes of February 04, 2021
Erico moved to approve, Jens seconded
Unanimously Approved
Action Items
- Chrissy renewed Google Voice Number
- FOSS Questionnaire responses returned
Incoming Correspondence
- OSI Elections - open for nominations now, can wait for voting
New Business
Python Web Conference Sponsorship
- email sent outlining
- $2500 USD
- Erico motioned to approve, Andy seconded
- Sponsorship Unanimously Approved!
- Logo will be added to the conference site
2021 Budget
- Erico sent a link to board via email
- expected 26K sponsorship revenue - thank you to all our sponsors!
- conf ~$3K, mix of virtual and in person, all virtual may go up
expenses - transferred from last year
- bank charges, hosting domains, etc not a big change
IP fees
Trademark watch - will check with legal on status
- automated service can be set up instead of paying lawyer
- Crissy will check with our lawyer
Marketing -
14K for sponsoring events that are not sprints. e.g. Python Web Conference
- publicize our own events like World Plone Day
- professional services money for plone.org - could be in-kind with a company in our community, or paid as needed
- promotional materials - 11K
- Conference costs - 15K for online transmission
- Travel stipends for Release Managers
- Sprint monies!
- Paul motions, Victor seconds Unanimously Approved - Budget 2021 Passes!
Plone Conference 2021
- Meeting yesterday with conf organizers
- Preparations are being made
- Oct 20 - 22, 2021
- go/no go deadline in June
- we will need some conference champions to tell everyone they are going!
- wheels in are in motion
- [Executive Session]
Foundation will pay for virtual conf software
- will ask for local camera team
Continued Business
Review Ongoing
Erico & Paul have selected a tshirt shop
- meets Paul's ethical criteria
- basic shop set up, upgraded to Pro shop (free as we are non-profit)
based in UK, shipping is cheap worldwide
- ~$7 US
- ~$5 EU
- should be available before world plone day
- is just for marketing, no profits, very high quality merch
- [Executive Session]
GSOC
- still hard with the new format
- no mentors have volunteered
- maybe focus on Erasmus project for now, look for next year
- Victor may ask around a bit more
Alpine City Sprint
- successful
- Barcelonetta worked on
- ~ 9 online
installer meeting, Jens will post to community.plone.org
- Victor will add js installer story
- Windows is always the 90% effort
Paul moved to adjourn, Erico seconded
Unanimously approved
Meeting adjourned at 19:54 UTC