Minutes, Aug 25 2005
Roll Call
Attending: Joel, Geoff, Mark (proxy for Alan), Robert, Marcel,
Jodok, Alex, Norm
Not-attending: Christian, Alan
Observing: Paul
Minutes
Approved minutes from previous call. Approved by acclamation.
Officer Reports
President
Joel and Paul went to OSCON. Went well in the booth and kept our
name in play. 2 Plone specific presentations, 2 BoFs, one Zope
presentation. Two large companies came by with interest.
Vice-President
None.
Secretary
Tracking down the State of Delaware stuff. Marcel tracked down
the correct contact in CA. Might have to file taxes if unfiled.
Mark mentioned the details and that we wouldn't likely have a
penalty if we had no income.
Treasurer
Nothing new to report. No new income, LinuxWorld expense to Joel
per last meeting was paid.
Committee Reports
Membership Committee
Geoff and Joel at the Plone Symposium went through all the pending
members, approved 3 and handled the rest. Most were relatively
new.
IP Committee
Joel will be talking about licensing at the Plone Conference.
Goal is to learn more about about what are the issues and what
people want.
Trademark Committee
Xavier said we have passed the milestone needed to do the
transfer. He's back from vacation so presumably we can get the
trademark specialist to hand things over. There will be some more
expenses to make this happen.
Marketing Committee
New Orleans brought in some fresh voices and got a brochure done.
Need to channel energy better. Discussion about
directory.plone.org and plone.net. Joel mentioned that, if we
don't get booths, we don't win awards. Mambo won because they had
a booth and got a lot of public spin.
Old Business
None, general amnesty given for action items.
New Business
The first few items are highest priority, since Robert isn't
available next week. We have some specific things to do related to
the PF at the Plone Conf.
1) Schedule member meeting. Meeting is scheduled for the end of the
day on Tuesday. We will have a short meeting of the new board
after the member meeting.
Mark mentioned that members must renew each year according to the
bylaws. We don't have a renewal process so many of the members
are in an emeritus status. Alex asked whether it matters to have
emeritus status. We had a roll call to get opinions. Around
half felt we should have some kind of process.
Joel proposed that we send something to announce list saying
people have to renew by a workflow state change or some simple
process.
2) Get nominations for new board. Joel emailed the board list with
some proposed dates. Handle the same as last year, people make
nomination objects on plone.org for their candidacy. People vote
by emailing Paul. They can revote. Have everyone vote before
the membership meeting.
This was accepted. Joel encouraged the current board to consider
other candidates and actively encourage more participation.
3) Plan elections.
4) Proper notices and Mark's point about membership renewal. (Our
bylaws require everyone to renew membership annually or go on
emeritus status.)
5) Meeting scheduled for newly-elected board.
Other agenda items as time is available. Let's be careful not to
make this a long call.
6) (Limi) LinguaPlone donation to PF. PSol wants to transfer
LinguaPlone to the foundation and have the contributor agreement
cover it, etc. Alex will get the LinguaPlone devs to sign a
contrib agreement with "LinguaPlone" as NAME OF PROGRAM and move
it into the SVN where CMFPlone is.
7) (Limi) Trademark committee reorganization and policies. Alex
plans to step down and let someone else help out. Alex has a
trademark lawyer in mind to run the committee.
8) (Limi) Membership approvals. Discussed previously.
9) (Limi) Packt Publishing royalties. Mark and Alex will handle
this.
10) (Norm) Plone IP turnover. Joel has signature authority.
11) (Limi) Hosting situation. People hosting python.org have
volunteered to host and sysadmin.
Next Meeting
Mark suggested another board call before Vienna.
Action Items
1) (Joel) Make a list of active approved members.
2) (Paul) Ensure we can claim trademark victory in Vienna.
3) (Joel) Add a "renew" transition.