Plone Foundation Board Minutes September 29, 2022

Meeting called to order at 19:04 UTC

Housekeeping

Attendance

Present: William Fennie, Érico Andrei, Paul Roeland,  Andy Leeb, Víctor Fernández de Alba, Jens Klein, Kim Paulissen

Absent:

Approval of the minutes of September 15, 2022

Kim moved to approve, Andy seconded

Unanimously Approved

Action Items

  • Zope Domains

    • nothing new
    • domains will remain active until May 2023
  • Sponsorship

  • Renewal Cycle

    • Andy will provide background information for a message

Incoming Correspondence

  • PyCon Ghana
  • OpenSource Week funding request
  • [Executive Session]
  • Paul will get in touch with Tito

New Business

  • Event Funding Request

    • RedTurtle - OpenSource Week 2022
    • Marketing approved the funding request for this

  • Membership Committee Recommendations

    • Nilesh

      • Paul moves, Kim seconds 

    • Lucas

      • Andy moves, William seconds

    • Jorg

      • Kim moves, Victor seconds

    • Rafahela

      • Kim moves, Erico seconds
    • All unanimously approved! 

Continued Business

  • Renewal cycle

    • Tell your friends to renew their Plone Membership, its easy! Andy will continue to send emails reminding the community to do so.

  • Annual Meeting Prep

    • Paul and Erico will work on preparing the documents

  • Nominate yourself for the Plone Board of Directors!

    • discussion on the role of the board
    • this can be an open space at the conference

  • Plone Conference

    • everything is going according to plan!

      • schedule
      • registrations
      • french track

      • free online tickets for conference stream (youtube)

        • an email will be sent a week before the conference
      • training are well attended

  • Plone Foundation Census

    • responses are trickling in

  • Sponsorship Program

    • likely the discussion will continue at the conference
  • Thank you, Paul Roeland, our newest sponsor on GitHub!

  • Contributor Agreement Digitization

    • Andy will continue to work on it

  • Zope Foundation

    • William is continuing efforts

      • the best effort with documentation first and approaching the bank again
    • the Board is considering hiring a lawyer

Review Ongoing

  • Plone Brazil

    • Plone Symposium South America
    • Nov 8 in Brasilia
  • [Executive Session]

Kim moved to adjourn, Andy seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 20:14 UTC