Plone Foundation Board Minutes June 10, 2021

Meeting called to order at 19:00 UTC

Housekeeping

Attendance

Present: Chrissy Wainwright, William Fennie, Erico Andrei, Paul Roeland,  Andy Leeb, Victor Fernandez de Alba, Jens Klein

Absent:

Approval of the minutes of May 13, 2021

William moved to approve, Chrissy seconded

Unanimously Approved

Approval of the minutes of May 27, 2021

Paul moved to approve, Erico seconded

Unanimously Approved

Action Items

  • Chrissy talked to Kim about testing hotfixes in the future, looks good!

Incoming Correspondence

  • n/a

New Business

  • Plone Conference 2021

    • updated Loudswarm contract

      • Chrissy will sign after changes are approved

    • we can lower the cost by handling Friday ourselves

      • LS is really great for the conference, not as much value for OpenSpaces

Continued Business

  • Marketing - Plone 6

    • Discussion surrounding naming of Plone 6 new front end

      • Volto is more of a "code name" - it recognizes the new functionality while providing meaning for the dev community

        • De-emphasize its use
      • Highlight our new shiny front end!
      • Keep Classic for people who require legacy UI

    • Translation services

      • Any non-developer centric service will be fine
      • Board will work with interested community members to affect any change to our translation service

Review Ongoing

  • Steering circle meeting next week

    • Chrissy will ping slack channel and ensure we have a working Zoom meeting

    • No response from @collective npm owner, we're going to have to move towards alternatives

      • Poll in community.plone.org maybe

  • itonboard.eu is now online!

    • initial interviews are posted, more on the way
    • marketing team requested a write up/News Item that could be posted on the plone.org website

Erico moved to adjourn, Andy seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 19:42 UTC