Agenda, Jan 31, 2008
- Finalize and approve proposed agenda
- Approve and publish 1/17/2008 meeting minutes
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Officer reports (President, Secretary, Treasure)
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Committee reports (below)
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Old business (below)
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New business (below)
- Review all new action items (who does what by when)
- Next scheduled meeting: Feb 14, 2008.
Committee, Project Committee, and Work Group Reports
Membership Committee (Darci)
- Action Items:
- Review membership application queue
- Report: status on membership approval process (Geir and Darci)
Trademark / IP Committee (Geir)
- What's
the status of the Trademark committee page/folder? (e.g. has necessary
content from this been incorporated into the Trademark/IP page/folder?)
- Report: status on potential trademark infringement from a commercial software company (legal advice on our options)
- Currently two possible infringements
- Minor infractions (content farming)
Marketing Committee (Nate)
- Brand audit update
- General status update
ACTION: Nate and Alex will consolidate and make sure the marketing mailing lists are operating the way we want
By-laws Work Group (Joel)
- Status update
Strategic Planning Work Group (Jon/Alex)
- Approve the allocation of funds to sponsor travel costs for deserving participants.
- Note: are the applications and distributions recorded online somewhere and/or with Toby?
- General status update
ACTION: Alex is securing a place to stay for the participants [done]
ACTION: Alex will send mail that he's managing the transportation needs and how to get to SF, etc [done]
Old Business
Discussion on Sponsorship Plan for plone.net (Jon)
- Getting feedback:
- Random choices from Plone.net (?) - reach beyond the core.
- Alex will help Jon to identify.
- Discuss proposed expense budget.
ACTION: Jon to contact companies for feedback
PloneGov (Jon)
- Was Xavier contacted regarding board's decision to approve use?
ACTION: Jon will contact Xavier regarding use.
Update on plone.org.mx and plone.com.mx transfer
- ACTION: Jon will contact Hector about making this happen
- ACTION: Joel will create a general recommendation for country-specific Plone sites
New Business
- Plone Conference 2008 Planning
- What process we want to use for selecting a conference venue (same as previous years or modified in some way)
- What if any guidance we want to offer to prospective hosts
- Most importantly, timeline. We should get an earlier jump on thingsif at all possible
- Help Wichert recruit more people to maintain plone.org
- Security Team presence at plone.org. Was this completed?
- Spanish PLONE (see 1/16 email, Subject: Spanish Plone)
- We kindly request your permission to translate plone manuals into Spanish. If granted, please could you indicate required copyright procedures.
- We would also like to request your organization’s backing for this project, which we feel is a must to make this job a success.
- Archiving #plone, #plone-dev
Deferred Until 2/14 Meeting
Content Policy Work Group (Steve)
- Status update
plone.org Visual Re-design Project (Alex)
- Status update
Allocating Foundation funds for Sprints (Nate)
- Discuss process and criteria draft by Nate (see 1/20 email Subject: Sprint sponsorship request procedure from Nate and Jon's followup)
Update on Zope 2 on Python 2.5 (Jon) [postponed]
Note: this item will become higher in priority after the Strategic Planning even in February. Next steps will include:
- Confirm Wichert's role
- Identify cost and scope (Jon, Wichert, and Martijn)
- Start fund raising using the bounty approach
- Go forth and implement!
Next meeting
- Next scheduled meeting: Feb 14, 2008.