Plone Foundation Board 2025 Priorities
What a year it has been!
This past year saw new Plone releases, new Volto releases, amazing efforts in cookieplone and Plone as a Headless CMS, the relaunch of the Plone Newsletter, overwhelming participation in World Plone Day, another successful GSoC, super-duper fun Plone Tune-Up Days, and a magnificent Plone Conference in Brasilia, Brazil!
It truly has been a wonderful time with great friends.
How the Plone Foundation Board serves
The mission of Plone Foundation is to protect and promote Plone. The role of Plone Foundation Board is to oversee and assist the Plone project and community.
The Board does not to manage Plone directly, but rather assists technical teams in working together, and nurtures new participation and leadership within the community. Having as wide a representation and a variety of points of view as possible on the Board makes it easier for the Board to address the overall needs of the diverse Plone community and project.
New year, new goals!
The year ahead in 2025 is already packed with Plone events and we couldn't be more excited!
Reflecting upon the mission from 2024, The Plone Foundation Board has set their sights on carrying that momentum into 2025! The Board has been looking ahead to the new year to identify priorities and overarching goals that can further promote the software that we all love and enhance the community we call home.
These are the 2025 priorities for the Board:
Stengthen the Plone Foundation
- Push for more diversity in the community
- Lower our carbon footprint as a community
- Have a straightforward sponsorship program (Providers, Foundation Sponsors, Conference Sponsors, Individual Sponsors, GitHub sponsors, ...) managed by a Team
- Improve the process to reduce administrative work
- Have a written list of requirements to organize Conferences/Sprints/...
- Find new funding sources for the Plone Foundation
- Having new Plone Foundation members and increasing their participation in the life of the Plone Foundation.
- Better define benefits/duties of Foundation Membership
- Align sprint planning with sponsorship commitments and product roadmap
- Ensure financial operations & treasury transfer resulting in a workable and future-proof treasury
Empower the Plone Community
- More in-person events (sprints of course, but not only)
- Make sure the events are successful & energizing & diverse
- Training : Think of ways to better train newcomers
- Have a clear and community-adopted Roadmap, shared between Classic & Volto Teams
- Renew/revamp sub-communities like PloneGov, PloneEdu
- Start new teams like plone.org Dev Team and Grants/Fundraising Team
- Make sure the conference is a success
Promote and Market Plone
- Promote the latest advancements in Plone/Volto (Distributions/Headless/Real-time web) and Promote Plone to frontend communities.
- Improve plone.org SEO and metadata (google search console, web crawls, backlinks)
- Encourage participation in community events (tune-up days, sprints, WPD, PloneConf)
- Assess/contribute Plone reviews/information around the internet (CMS Comparisons, outdated Wikipedia page, etc)
- Promote having better and clearer documentation and entrypoints for newcomers
- Reach of posts
- Increase reposts by Board and Foundation members
- Look for regular community events (PloneGov-BR, Python, etc.)
Feedback
The new 2025 Board looks forward to setting these priorities in motion, and we would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions! Please reach out to us at board@plone.org.