Plone Foundation Board Minutes July 24, 2025

Call to Order

  • Meeting started at 20:05

Attendance

  • Present: Rafahela Bazzanella, Eric Brehault, Brian Davis, Mikel Larreategi, and Martin Peeters
  • Excused: João Henrique Gouveia, Guido Stevens, Steve Piercy (interim treasurer)

Approval of the minutes of

  • July 10, 2025: Eric motions to approve. Brian seconds. All in favor excepts Rafahela who abstains.

Action items

  • Martin didn't yet contact Paul about treasurer voting.

Incoming Correspondence

  • 9 pypi emails
  • 5 emails from Steve
  • Piero re: Axolote sprint funding request
  • Jacob re: Beethoven sprint funding request

New Business

  • None

Continued Business

  • Interim Treasuer Role
    • Beth out-of-office, didn't yet reply. Waiting to work through 2FA. Can we pay her as a freelancer?
      • Board okay with that, if needed.
    • It would be good to setup a Google Voice number for the Treasurer to have 2FA for accounts.
      • Would need to buy one for $10/mo through Google Workspace.
        • Is it usuable by someone outside of the U.S.?
      • Some accounts can be setup through an authenticator app and tied to 1pw.
    • Can treasurer@plone.org be a user account instead of a group?
      • Board okay with that.
  • Sponsorship management and levels
    • No news. Need to find someone to head this up ASAP. Please ask around.
  • Github security overhaul
    • No news.
  • Provider listing on plone.org: what to do as a company in the community, self-grading
    • New Marketing Team member Vitaliy has been taking initiative on this.
      • Started working on a Google Form and/or AI Agent Scraping to collect data from providers.
      • Planning to contact providers to fill in missing data and update their profiles.
    • Marketing Team was wondering how this data came to be in the first place?
      • Martin: Historically the revamped listing was hard to keep up-to-date, that's why it is only a link.
      • Martin: My suggestion would be to have an annual renewal campaign like Foundation Membership does, so that providers have the opportunity to look at/update their page at least once a year.
      • Brian: Good idea. I will suggest this to Marketing Team.
  • Sprint funding request
    • Alpine City Sprint: Brief contact. Still hoping to schedule a meeting.
  • GSoC
    • 1 student is hesitant to travel for PloneConf. Talked to mentor. Still asking, but probably wont have time to complete visa request.
    • Midterm evaluation has been done. Everyone is succeeding so far.
  • PloneConf
    • No news as Rikupekka was on holiday. Next meeting will be this coming Tuesday.
  • AI Policy
    • Mikel reported on this at the Volto Team meeting. They will review. Mikel will try to push again.
  • Zope Foundation Funds
    • No news. Martin will reach out again.

Review Ongoing

  • Brian: Enabled receipt on the event-sponsorship-request form.
  • Brian: Plone’s Github README update is now merged and live on https://github.com/plone
  • Mikel: Enabled receipt on the foundation-membership-application.
  • Rafaela: Will be keynote speaker at this year's Python Brazil.
    • Brian: Please send info to the Marketing Team and we will publish a news item about it.
  • Martin: Will present Executive Director position proposal to Steering Circle.
    • Goal is to write up a job description and have something for members to vote on.

Adjournment

  • Eric motions to adjourn. Mikel seconds. All in favor.
  • Adjourned at 20:55