Plone Foundation Board Minutes March 5, 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
Approval of the minutes
Eric moves to approve the minutes, Gouveia seconds. All in favor.
Action items
Martin will talk with Guido about the usage of Quaive.
Incoming Correspondence
2 messages about code of conduct violations
Message from PyPI
Message from Docusign subscription
Message from Steve about domains
Message from Steve about the treasurer-related topics to discuss today
Message from Johannes about sprint budget
Message from Mikel about the Community recognition program
Message from Rafa about membership committee
New Business
The Membership committee recommends 9 new people:
Rafa moves to accept Julien Chandelle as new Plone foundation member. Eric seconds. Martin abstains, the rest are in favor.
Rafa moves accept the following people as new Plone foundation members:
Johan Beyers
Christophe Boulanger
Elisabeth Donnay
Jussi Talaskivi
Lincoln Ferreira de Araujo
Rémi Dubois
Roland Fasching
Wagner Trezub
Martin seconds. All in favor.
Mikel submitted the Community recognition program proposal. It is still in progress.
Domains: we need to keep track on who are the owners for all the domains related to the Plone brand.
Buschenschanksprint funding request: we could consider increasing the budget to cover the expenses of key people needed to work on specific PLIPs aligned with the roadmap. Eric will contact Johannes to get details about it.
Treasurer topics:
Planned closure of Chase business checking account in March.
Planned final sweep of contents from the USPS PO Box in Indiana with Beth in April.
Executive session about a community issue.
Continued Business
Zope Foundation funds: no news
Adjournment
- Gouveia motions to adjourn, Rikuppeka seconds. All in favor.
- Meeting adjourned at 21:53 GMT