2026 Plone Foundation Board Priorities
What a year it has been!
This past year saw new Plone releases, many new Volto releases, amazing efforts in cookieplone, updates to the roadmap, increasing subscriptions to 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 Finland!
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 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 2026 is already packed with Plone events and we couldn't be more excited!
Reflecting upon the mission from 2025, The Plone Foundation Board has set their sights on carrying that momentum into 2026! 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 2026 priorities for the Board:
Foundation
- Promote more initiatives about reducing our environmental impact
- Announce and promote the initiative
- Promote more diversity and inclusion in the community
- Improve Plone Foundation and Treasurer processes
- Centralize documentation
- Find new funding sources for the Plone Foundation
- Having new Plone Foundation members and increasing their participation in the life of the Plone Foundation
- Create an EU entity
- Support Sponsorship team to create a relationship with Plone Providers
Empower the Plone Community
- Facilitate improved communications between Admins, Board, and Marketing
- Establish team calendars for internal recurring tasks
- Improve user management and team onboarding
- Define and document the newly created Admin Team Liaison role
- PloneEdu
- Re-establish a PloneEdu section on plone.org
- Enhance communication between the PloneEdu team and Marketing
- Bringing universities closer to the Plone universe
- Support “Zero to Hero” training tracks
Marketing and Plone promotion
- Plone.org update
- Support plone.org upgrade with the Website Dev team
- Support plone.org Information Architecture reboot with the Website Content Team
- Support plone.org SEO and metadata improvements with both website teams
- Improve AI Policy / Strategy
Feedback
The new 2026 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.