Plone Foundation Board Minutes June 12, 2025

Call to Order

  • Meeting started at 20:03

Attendance

  • Present: Brian Davis, João Henrique Gouveia, Mikel Larreategi, and Martin Peeters
  • Excused: Rafahela Bazzanella, Eric Brehault, and Guido Stevens

Approval of the minutes of

  • May 29, 2025: Brian motions to approve. Gouveia seconds. All in favor.

Action items

  • Mikel emailed Eric and David
  • Mikel worked on AI policy
  • Martin sent email to Beth and Steve (Steve may join us today or next meeting?)

Incoming Correspondence

  • Event sponsorship request
  • Plone LinkedIn account
  • Thank you to the new sponsor on GitHub!

New Business

  • Plone Tagung sponsorship
    • Need a request from Marketing or event organizer (Maik)
    • Which budget does this come out of?
      • Events go to Marketing, Sprints go to board.
    • What about the post-event sprint?
      • The sprint wasn't coordinated for strategic purposes. To be a strategic sprint, they would need to work on roadmap PLIPs.
    • Better if the entire sponsorship cost all comes out of marketing. If Marketing needs a budget increase, Marketing can submit a formal request for that.
    • Brian to contact Astrid.
  • LinkedIn Plone Foundation to Plone CMS name change
    • Makes sense. If Marketing thinks it will help, sounds good to the Board.
    • Brian to contact Astrid.

Continued Business

  • Sponsorship levels
    • Martin: What is the next step, wait for proposal?
    • Mikel: They will propose listing criteria, but not sponsorship levels. We should do that.
  • Github security overhaul: In planning
  • Provider listing on plone.org: what to do as a company in the community, self-grading
    • Proposal not finalized yet. Let's wait until a next meeting
  • Alpine City Sprint funding request: No news
  • Plone Trademark Renewal
    • Received email that says it was processed. Contact email changed to board@plone.org
  • GSOC 2025
    • Waiting to speak to Eric. There is a payment deadline from Google before 1st of July.
  • Plone Conference 2025
    • Received talk proposals, discussing whether to do online presentations.
    • Also received some sponsorship requests and requests for financial assistance.
    • More to be discussed next week.
  • New Treasurer
    • No word from Steve or interim treasurer. But Martin just emailed today. Maybe next meeting.
  • AI Policy: We reviewed the AI-generated AI policy draft.
    • Martin: In general, seems like a good first draft.
    • Brian: It may be a good launching point, but we should customize it for the Plone community.
    • Good that it gives suggestions rather than penalties. That is the tone we were aiming for.
    • Let's share it in a public Google doc and ask Steering Circle.
    • Mikel to put it on agenda for July 10 Steering Circle.
  • Zope Foundation Funds
    • No new news.

Review Ongoing

  • Good news! imio looking to send alot of people to PloneConf25!
  • Plone Github readme: Brian asked Board to please review

Adjournment

  • Mikel motions to adjourn. Gouveia seconds. All in favor.
  • Adjourned at 20:52.