Plone Foundation Board Minutes March 19, 2026

Meeting started at 20:01 GMT.

Attendance

Present: Rafahela Bazzanella, João Henrique Gouveia, Gildardo Bautista Garcia Cano, Brian Davis, Martin Peeters, Rikupekka Oksanen, Steve Piercy, and Eric Brehault
Excused: none

Gouveia moves to approve the minutes, Eric seconds. All in favor.

Domain list still in process.

Eric contacted Johannes about the Buschenschanksprint, no answer so far.

Martin could not contact Guido.

We have received a GDPR request about removing some personal information from zope.dev (and it is not spam or phishing). The Plone Foundation manages this domain but not its content. Eric will contact the requester to obtain more details about the pages that need to be cleaned up.
Plone Conference 2026: no recent news, Rikupekka will contact the team.
Community recognition program: Martin had a meeting with the team, they will submit a new version of their proposal in 2 weeks.
Plone domains: still on-going
Eau de Web submitted a sprint funding request for 1500 euros budget. Eric moves to approve the budget, Rikupekka seconds. All in favor. The budget is approved, Martin will let them know.
Executive session about possible Code of Conduct possible violation.
Treasury topics:
- Tech Soup Association Code for QuickBooks online discount.
- Payoneer letter.
- Zope Foundation: the letter is ready, defining the next step.
- Application for a grant from Sovereign Tech Fund: this organization is European, it might be difficult to apply as a US foundation, but we will ask. If not, a consortium of European Plone companies could apply, with the support of the foundation.
- Brian moves to add Eric Steele as authorized representative to the bank account, Martin seconds, all in favor.

Call tomorrow at 10:00 CET: follow up with Jon Cherry on the Stellenbosch sprint.
A group of volunteers is currently renewing the plone.org content, the objective is to release it on June 15 (any help is appreciated).