Plone Foundation Board Minutes September 01, 2022

Meeting called to order at 20:05 UTC

Housekeeping

Attendance

Present: Érico Andre, Paul Roeland, Victor Fernandez de Alba, Andy Leeb, Kim Paulissen, William Fennie, Jens Klein

Absent:

Approval of the minutes of Aug 18, 2022

Kim moved to approve, Erico seconded

Unanimously Approved

Action Items

• Zope domains - stakeholders are on holiday, they will return shortly

  • we will get the needed information after they return

• Sponsorship

  • we are working on getting a replacement from within the community
• Marketing team is working on a News Item announcement for new members
• Google ads see new business

Incoming Correspondence

• None

New Business

• Google Ads

  • basic setup
  • 3 geographic regions for now
  • eventually this will transition over to Marketing Team

• Membership renewal

  • Time to send out reminder to members to renew

    • add in a reminder to complete the census

  • proposal to move existing membership email list to google groups

    • less chance of spam flagging
    • google group has limit of 80 new members/day, so existing will be added in batches of < 80

Continued Business

• Plone Conf 2022

  • new sponsors
  • everything is going according to our plan

• Plone Foundation Census

  • News Item is ready
  • we welcome more responses

• Sponsorship Program

  • continuity discussion

• Contributor Agreement

  • same state

• Zope Foundation Money

  • still in progress
  • Thank you Matthew Wilkes for your continued efforts!
  • Thank you William for your continued efforts!

Review Ongoing

• Brazilian Plone Community

  • weekly 1 hr live stream
  • technical alternated with human interest

• Google Summer of Code

  • winding down
  • we will follow up with Mentors for final recommendations
• Marketing team has created a Plone 6 FAQ and linked to it from plone.org

Andy moved to adjourn, Paul seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 20:43 UTC