Plone Foundation Board Minutes January 21, 2021
Meeting called to order at 19:00 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 Plone Foundation Board Minutes December 22, 2020
Erico moved to approve, Jens seconded
Unanimously Approved
Action Items
- x
Incoming Correspondence
FOSS - questionnaire to be answered
- Put into google doc and collaborate on answering it
- Review answers by Feb 5, 2021
New Business
Plone Conf committee
- Erico, Chrissy, Victor, Kim has been volunteered
- Philip yes!
Ask if Sally is interested
- Yes!
Tasks:
- Set conference goals
- Due dates/scheduling/deadlines
- Executive coordination - marketing
- Fiscal decisions - e.g ticket sales
- Sponsorships
- [Executive Session]
Steering Circle meeting
- Next in about a month, will need to notify community
How to submit items/questions
- community.plone.org postings to start discussions
- google form for anonymous questions
Continued Business
- x
Review Ongoing
GSOC - rumblings about the new format
- short projects
- we would have to change our process - can't really justify 2 mentors
hard to find short projects in Zope/Plone
- maybe volto requires less background knowledge to get started
- Paul will work with Victor and Timo to discuss
Marketing Committee report via William
- News Item tweaks for more intelligent image cropping via plone.app.imagecropping
Sally & Norbert Mini-sprint on how to improve plone.org site
- Board intention to mirror latest release was communicated
Roadmap for sprints happening in the coming year, any other major events that the marketing team can, well, market!
- Python web conf in march
- Installer, possible for Alpine city sprint, not planned yet due to covid
Plone Conf 2020 - all invoices have been paid! Thank you Python Foundation!
- Financially the 2020 Conf was pretty good - we can use this as a way to determine if we can do the virtual/in-person conf
- Swag for trainers - sourcing ethically sourced tshirts is ongoing
Video upload - maybe we should split amongst the board?
- Upload script may need modifications depending on the naming scheme employed for the videos
Potential security CVE for zope formlib
- Plone does NOT use this library
- Since Zope is part of Plone Foundation, we should make this visible/awareness
- Very legacy
- Jens will work with the security researcher who contacted him
Paul moved to adjourn, Andy seconded
Unanimously approved
Meeting adjourned at 19:53 UTC