Plone Foundation Board Minutes October 31, 2024

Call to Order

  • Meeting started at 20:05 UTC

Attendance

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

Approval of the minutes of October 17th

Eric moves to approve the minutes, Martin seconds. Unanimously approved.

Action items

Membership renewal: Paul and Kim managed it.

Annual meeting preparation: we will work on the document during the meeting.

Incoming Correspondence

  • Email asking for Plone developers in Belgium: we will direct them to the providers page on plone.org.
  • Email from T.Kim Nguyen about sponsorship and bona fide sponsors. To be discussed during a the next meeting.
  • Email from T.Kim Nguyen about membership committee recommendations. See New Business.

New Business

Membership committee

8 new persons have been recommended to become members of the Plone Foundation. The Board voted for each of them:

  • Jakob Kalh: all in favor
  • Benoît Sutor: all in favor
  • Gildardo Bautista García Cano: all in favor
  • Laurent Dany: all in favor
  • Paul Grunewald: all in favor
  • Laurent Lasudry: all in favor
  • Astrid Beyers: all in favor
  • Peter Mathis: all in favor

Link to Zope Corporation in the Python license documentation

A GitHub issue in the CPython repository was opened to mention a wrong link to Zope Corporation (zope.org). Zope is now under the Plone Foundation umbrella, the board will ask to change the link to zope.dev.

Continued Business

  • Annual Meeting Preparation: the board worked on a shared document to prepare the annual meeting.
  • Board Election: no updates.
  • Membership Renewal: so far, 64 approved, 38 pending
  • New Sponsorship Program: no updates.
  • Framework team: no updates.
  • Google Summer of Code 2024: one student is still waiting for his visa.
  • Plone Conference 2024: no updates.
  • Plone Conference 2025: the board is still discussing with candidates.
  • Membership Committee renewal: done.
  • Zope Foundation Funds: We are still trying to contact people.

Review Ongoing

No updates.

Adjournment

Guido moves to adjourn, Eric seconds. Unanimously approved.

Meeting adjourned at 21:26 UTC.