Plone Foundation Board Minutes August 17, 2023
Meeting called to order at 19:02 UTC
Attendance
Present: Erico Andrei, William Fennie, T. Kim Nguyen, Kim Paulissen, Martin Peeters, Paul Roeland
Absent: Jens Klein
Housekeeping
Minutes from meeting of 3 August 2023
The minutes were reviewed and corrected. Kim Paulissen moved to accept the minutes as revised, and Martin Peeters seconded.
Passed unanimously.
Action Items
Reviewing Plone domains - Continued business
Sponsorship drive - Continued business
Review of Python Software Foundation Bylaws - Continued business
Incoming correspondence
16 August 2023 - formal proposal to organize next year's Plone conference - New business
New Business
Plone Conference 2024
[Executive Session]
We received a proposal for hosting next year's event; details are expected before the next meeting.
Continued Business
Plone Foundation Bylaws changes - Proposed changes to the Bylaws with regard to the composition and election of the board are currently being voted on by the Plone Foundation membership.
[Executive Session]
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) - International travel restrictions are posing challenges to our process for providing conference support to GSoC winners. The board is examining options for assisting the students.
Plone Conference 2023 - The preliminary training schedule has been posted and the conference planning committee is continuing to finalize details.
We are looking for conference sponsors! Every Plone service provider and company should be :) Many thanks to those who are already sponsors, and to CodeSyntax, the hard working organizers of this event. https://2023.ploneconf.org/sponsors
Sponsorship
[ Executive Session ]
We are making adjustments to the front page of plone.org to display all our sponsors. T. Kim Nguyen is drafting the fall sponsorship drive.
Contributor Agreement Digitization
Paul Roeland continues to work on the finding the right platform, including hosted or self-hosted options. We have found a workable solution : it needs configuration.
Zope Foundation funds
[Executive Session]
Review Ongoing
First in a new iteration of Plone Tune-up events took place on 18 August with good attendance and good follow-on viewership.
Adjourn
Kim Paullisen moved and T.Kim Nguyen seconded that the meeting be adjourned.
Unanimously approved.
Meeting adjourned at 19:48 UTC