Plone Foundation Board Minutes September 29, 2022

Meeting called to order at 19:04 UTC

Housekeeping

Attendance

Present: William Fennie, Érico Andrei, Paul Roeland,  Andy Leeb, Víctor Fernández de Alba, Jens Klein, Kim Paulissen

Absent:

Approval of the minutes of September 15, 2022

Kim moved to approve, Andy seconded

Unanimously Approved

Action Items

  • Zope Domains
    • nothing new
    • domains will remain active until May 2023
  • Sponsorship
  • Renewal Cycle
    • Andy will provide background information for a message

Incoming Correspondence

  • PyCon Ghana
  • OpenSource Week funding request
  • [Executive Session]
  • Paul will get in touch with Tito

New Business

  • Event Funding Request
    • RedTurtle - OpenSource Week 2022
    • Marketing approved the funding request for this
  • Membership Committee Recommendations
    • Nilesh
      • Paul moves, Kim seconds 
    • Lucas
      • Andy moves, William seconds
    • Jorg
      • Kim moves, Victor seconds
    • Rafahela
      • Kim moves, Erico seconds
    • All unanimously approved! 

Continued Business

  • Renewal cycle
    • Tell your friends to renew their Plone Membership, its easy! Andy will continue to send emails reminding the community to do so.
  • Annual Meeting Prep
    • Paul and Erico will work on preparing the documents
  • Nominate yourself for the Plone Board of Directors!
    • discussion on the role of the board
    • this can be an open space at the conference
  • Plone Conference
    • everything is going according to plan!
      • schedule
      • registrations
      • french track
      • free online tickets for conference stream (youtube)
        • an email will be sent a week before the conference
      • training are well attended
  • Plone Foundation Census
    • responses are trickling in
  • Sponsorship Program
    • likely the discussion will continue at the conference
  • Thank you, Paul Roeland, our newest sponsor on GitHub!
  • Contributor Agreement Digitization
    • Andy will continue to work on it
  • Zope Foundation
    • William is continuing efforts
      • the best effort with documentation first and approaching the bank again
    • the Board is considering hiring a lawyer

Review Ongoing

  • Plone Brazil
    • Plone Symposium South America
    • Nov 8 in Brasilia
  • [Executive Session]

Kim moved to adjourn, Andy seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 20:14 UTC