Plone Foundation Board Minutes September 3, 2026

Call to Order

  • Meeting started at 18:02 UTC.

Attendance

  • Present: Brian Davis, Rikupekka Oksanen, Martin Peeters, João Henrique Gouveia, Steve Piercy, and Eric Brehault.
  • Excused: Rafahela Bazzanella, Gildardo Bautista Garcia Cano.

Approval of the minutes of

  • August 20, 2026: Gouveia motions to approve. Eric seconds. All in favor.

Action items

  • Martin did not contact KitConcept about pastanaga.io, but the issue was handled.

Incoming Correspondence

  • emails about sprint funding request.
  • email from pypi.
  • email from Victor about travel stipends.

New Business

  • Axolote sprint funding request: the sprint was already budgetted with 1,650 USD. Dante estimates the budget to be 1,600 USD higher. Eric moves to set the budget of the Axolote sprint to 3,250 USD, Gouveia seconds. All in favor. Budget approved. Eric will inform Dante
  • Sprint funding request for the Cerrado Sprint in Brazilia: Eric moves to set the budget to 3,000 USD, Rikupekka seconds. All in favor but Gouveia who abstains. Budget approved. Gouveia will inform Érico.
  • Increase of the travel stipend for Victor as release manager from 4,000 USD to 9,000 USD. Rikupekka moves to set the budget of Victor's travel stipend to 9,000 USD, Eric seconds. All in favor. Approved.
  • Victor also requests for being reimbursed for items as he incurs in the expenses instead of after the event is completed before expense. Gouveia moves to approve, Martin seconds. All in favor. Approved. Eric will inform Victor.
  • Annual meeting report preparation:
    • Financial report: it will be based on the financial statement prepared by Steve.
    • Board priorities have been updated in the priorities document.

Continued Business

  • Zope Foundation Github admin: no news.
  • Security reports: the message to request help fron the community to help the security team due to the increase of security reports has been approved by the security team, Rikupekka will post it on community.plone.org.
  • Finding a new treasurer: no news.
  • Plone.org renewal: unfortunately it will probably not be ready for the conference. It will be one of the conference sprint topics.
  • Treasurer requested items: nothing to review.
  • Improve Board processes: Gouveia started working on moving the documents to Google Drive.
  • Zope Foundation Funds: no news.

Review Ongoing

  • Discussions about restarting the accessibility team.

Adjournment

  • Eric moves to adjourn, Brian seconds, all in favor.
  • Meeting adjourned at 19:22 GMT