Plone Foundation Board Minutes August 8, 2024

Meeting started at 20:04 UTC.

Attendance

Present: Martin Peeters, Brian Davis, Mikel Larreategi, Paul Roeland, and Guido Stevens
Excused: Kim Paulissen and Eric Brehault

Approval of the minutes of July 25th

Mikel motions to approve the minutes. Paul seconds. All in favor. Guido obstains. Minutes are approved.

Action items

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Incoming Correspondence

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New Business

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Continued Business

Follow up on Sponsorship Proposal

  • Guido = Can we convert the pdf to odt and put in Quaive?
  • Paul = Need to take a deeper look at the points system. It is good, but needs refinement.
  • Guido = Seems good for PR and encouraging involvement, but doesn't raise sponsorship.
  • Martin = It is good to reward those who contribute. And it may raise sponsorship as more listings can spur other companies to contribute.
  • Guido = Yes, but bringing in more money also promotes more involvement. Can organize more sprints/activities.
  • Paul = Need to look at additional funding sources, like EU. Some European companies would be a good lead on that.
  • Guido = Document leads to questions of who, how, and when will this be accomplished? Who will do the work? Guido wants to get involved, but it has been hard to get a meeting with Sponsorhip Committee, and is feeling demotivated.
  • Brian = Discussed Sponsorhip proposal with Marketing team. Started getting news item planning on agenda for Oct 1st-ish. Marketing focused on reviewing level refinements, such as:
    • Need bigger differences between premium/standard (proposal only differs in frontpage listing and % discount)
    • Improved level names... example "preferred" might be more welcoming than "standard"
    • Maybe bigger gaps in $ levels.
  • Brian = Will contact Erico to setup a meeting with Marketing Team.

Framework Team

  • Brian discussed it for a 2nd time at Steering Circle. More people were there this time. Timo says Framework team is basically Maik and Timo and release managers. David Glick wants to rejoin the team. David will post on community.plone to encourage new recruits.

GSoc

  • Paul's student is doing well. Most of the students are still okay. We need to resolve who is going to Mentor's Summit, currently waiting for Eric Brehault to return.

Ploneconf

  • Mikel says yesterday's meeting didn't happen. Nothing new to report. There was a request from Indian Plonistas to have invitation letters. Letters were to be sent yesterday. Mikel will double check with Nilesh.
  • Paul told Nilesh there will be financial support from PSF, so get on with booking a ticket. However, still expensive from India and 30-hour flight, unfortunately.

Membership

  • Paul and Kim to meet. Will provide update next meeting.

Zope Funds

  • Eric Steele replied. He will try contacting people. Mikel mentioned an Alex Clark sighting. Could maybe get some contacts through him?

Review Ongoing

  • Paul = Recording update on last meeting's Sponsorship Proposal... Video didn't record to the cloud, did record to local directory on Martin's computer. Martin found it!
  • Brian = Newsletter subscriptions increased from 34 to 48. Paul asked about mailerlite archiving. Brian believes there might be a plan for that, will ask in Marketing Meeting.
  • Paul = Membership renewal cycle coming up, new board election cycle, put in agenda for next meeting.

Adjournment

Paul motions. Martin seconds. All in favor. Adjourned at 21:03 UTC.