Plone Foundation Board Minutes January 07, 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 December 22, 2020

Erico moved to approve, Jens seconded

Unanimously Approved

New Business

  • 2021 Budget

    • Chrissy and Erico will spearhead this effort

  • Google Summer of Code

    • Paul - will continue to work on this

  • [Executive Session]

  • Ambassadors

    • Maybe reorganize as an adjunct of the marketing team

    • Reporting to marketing team
    • Update list, William is no longer an ambassador

  • Plone installers

    • classic, Plone 6, Volto (npm), per platform installers, pip install plone, Digital Ocean button...

    • installing Plone in China is hard

    • we need to unify this story, Plone Board can offer strategic oversight/roadmapping


      • a number of issues with our current installer

        • a bit long in the tooth

        • windows does not really work well

        • current installer is a bunch of bash scripts, not workable for Plone 6

        • docker images/containerization for devops

        • buildout isn't needed for development as much as it was in the past

      • Jens - will organize a team to discuss

Continued Business

  • Plone Conference 2020

    • Chrissy has been working on the Python Foundation adminstrivia, will work with Jen for an invoice

    • Videos need to be uploaded to YouTube

      • some automation is required
      • Erico, Paul, MaryBeth will coordinate
  • Review Ongoing

Review Ongoing

  • new Plone Board page will be published

  • CloudFlare Plone Web firewall rules for Plone - community maintain rule set, and CF would get it

    • see if people are available to work on this, post on community.plone.org
    • AI team will also work on this

Paul moved to adjourn, William seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 19:59 UTC