Plone Foundation Board Minutes January 20, 2022
Meeting called to order at 20:04 UTC UTC
Housekeeping
Attendance
Present: Érico Andrei, William Fennie, Victor Férnandez de Alba, Jens Klein, Andy Leeb, Kim Paulissen, Paul Roeland
Absent: Andy Leeb, excused
Approval of the minutes of January 6, 2022
William moved the minutes be accepted; Kim seconded
Unanimously Approved
Action Items
- The Marketing budget is complete. The marketing budget will include support of non-sprint activites.
- A news item about the Plone Foundation priorities for 2022 needs to be written (william)
Incoming Correspondence
- Question about sponsorship
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AWS Invoice
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Needs less than $1.00 payment for something
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This relates to a Known Good Set (Plone 3) on AWS that nobody can access; it can be ignored.
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Or perhaps Erico can get credentials back ?
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Should the board acquire the domain worldploneday.ch
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Let it expire; times have changed
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Jens Klein raised the question of the zope.de and zodb.org domains
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Plone Foundation would like to assume responsibility for those domains
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Ownership at the foundation and access granted to whomever
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The AI team has a role to play
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New Business
- GSOC
- Eric Bréhault will manage the process
- Coming week need to suggest a move to concrete proposals (3-5)
- not super formal but detailed in terms of who, what, etc.
- mid-February-ish
- Feb. 7 open for forms submission - Paul has details and will manage it
- Mid-Feb need to have a page somewhere
- On the website or a Google doc
- Stronger proposals come when sensible ideas are identified
- 18-years or older, but not required to be a university student
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Two actions items
GSoC news item
Fill form by Feb. 7
The board thanks Eric Bréhault for volunteering
Continued Business
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Priorities
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News item - after this is written, post to:
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Community.plone.org
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Twitter
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Ping Fred & Philip in Newsroom
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[Executive Session]
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Budget
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[Executive Session]
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Marketing team worked on budget
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Best estimate because of COVID restrictions
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Foundation is not organizing Plone conference this year
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Plone store - expecting small income for the year, on the order of US$400
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Advertising
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Perhaps a bit high ? - that not used will be used elsewhere
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Looking for companies that know how to do it
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Marketing is looking for support from Red Turtle or others
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Need to find someone who can manage ad placements
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Sprints
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Jens or Victor write about the sprint designations:
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Mega, large, small, community
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Community sprints aren't really happening
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Mega, large, small are more productive
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Update by cutting down on number of community sprints (hasn't caught on)
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Community sprints a possible asset in Brasil - qualifies as small sprint
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Sprint budget for this year is best case scenario.
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William moved to accept the budget; Kim seconded; motion carried.
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World Plone Day
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Need institutional content from the Plone Foundation
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Can use video to introduce the Foundation
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Avoid last year's situation of few people doing many things
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Make something edible / drinkable with the Plone logo
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Review Ongoing
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Ongoing
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There has been a flurry of activity on Plone Docs
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Steve very active; also Katja
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Soon we should have something presentable
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Represents genuine forward motion
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Lots of discussion to integrate current Volto docs
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Hosting - If don't get open source discount we should move to our own servers.
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Working well so don't stop the movement
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Steve - placement of dev documentation for the Volto site ?
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Value to having documentation side-by-side with the code
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otherwise docs get lost
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Docs need to live in one place, otherwise people won't find them
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Plone.org - sprint
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content
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organization
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Victor mini-sprint with Philip on Blocks conversion tool
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fixing things in RestAPI / Plone-volto
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Plone 6 Alpha 3 will release with Plone Volto
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Plone 6 classic - lots of fixes, losing requireJS dependencies
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hope it's ready for Alpha 3
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Paul moved that the meeting be adjourned; Victor seconded; motion unanimously approved.
Meeting adjourned at 21:00 UTC