Plone Foundation Board Minutes February 20, 2025
Call to Order
- Meeting started at 20:05 UTC
Attendance
- Present: Eric Brehault, Brian Davis, João Henrique Gouveia, Mikel Larreategi, Martin Peeters, and Guido Stevens
- Excused: Rafahela Bazzanella
Approval of the minutes of
- February 6, 2025: Eric motions to approve. Martin seconds. All in favor except Guido, who abstains.
Action items
- Martin made a first budget. Available for review on Quaive.
- Brian wrote Board Priorities article. Will publish and share on socials during Tune-Up Day.
- Martin will contact Erico tomorrow.
- Mikel contacted Eric.
Incoming Correspondence
- TKim re: New US policy for non profit organization and open-source projects
- Steve re: copyright
- Paul re: trademark. There is 4. Only 1 will expire in 2026. Rest are 2029. (Discuss next meeting)
New Business
- New US policy for non profit organization and open-source projects
- OSS cannot allow contribution from sanctioned countries.
- Not just financial, but also for code.
- Do we have anyone in the community from those countries? We don't think so. Not key members, at least.
- Nothing that we are aware of the new rules and will monitor going forward.
- Sprint funding for this year
- Guido doesn't have any news other than what we have. Still need to contact Jens to see what financial expectation are.
- Review budget that Martin prepared
- Marketing
- Marketing rarely spends on conference/events sponsorships. Unused funds are returned at the end of the year.
- Perhaps we should change that line item? If they need it, can request it.
- Brian will prompt Marketing for budget discussion and delivery.
- Sprints
- Difficult to assess sprint expenses, because we are not sure of the size of all the sprints.
- With the new way of doing it, this should help us in the future to know in advance what will be needed.
- However, we know in general we will have x number of sprints, so generally we are within range.
- Asssiged folks to contact sprint leaders and find out expectations.
Continued Business
- Conference
- Proposal from Erico to link sponsorship of conference to sponsorship of Foundation
- Should Foundation handle collecting funds? Not a good idea because of bank fees.
- Who takes the risk on income profit/loss? It's the conference organizer's risk.
- Discount seems logical, but its not our place to enact discount. However, we can help increase conference sponsors.
- Involving Foundation is too expensive. If from EU, can provide gateway. If outside of EU, then Foundation could process.
- New Treasurer
- Martin talked to Beth re: treasurer duties.
- Martin sharing requirements with new candidate for consideration.
- AI Policy
- Martin replied to Steve.
- It is our understanding policy will come from dev community, not from Board.
- Yes, Board owns the copyright. Still, the policy should come from devs to the board, not the other way around.
- Martin to contact Victor.
- Zope funds
- Esteele replied. No news.
Review Ongoing
- Brian: Contacted Steve re: Grants Team. Delayed while considering treasurer candidates.
- Brian: Marketing Team inquired about WPD participation from the Board. Martin indicated we could at least do a Town Hall.
Adjournment
- Eric motions to adjourn. Martin seconds. All in favor.
- Adjourned at 21:30 UTC