Marketing Team meeting notes July 28, 2026 @ 15h UTC

Announcements Minutes of Teams and Foundation Board
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Attending: Guido, Astrid, Rikupekka, Brian, Ruben, Tania

Items from last meeting:

  • 2026 Sprint T-shirts: Dante confirmed - all on track. Interaktiv - Kim & Steve settling payment.

  • next.plone.org

    • Worked on many pages incl Ecosystem. Headless page, FAQ, Roadmap. Wording on industry sectors. Case studies: need SOP for this. Suggestions to have database that auto-unpublish on a yearly basis, then do a manually check - put reminder in Marketing calendar as a task. And send an email to each provider at the same time (once a year) to prompt for any updates, and confirm that they are still the provider. Add date of case study submission etc.
    • Content types - set up group to work on this. Focus is SSOT.
    • Add something related to the new website to the PloneConf goodie bag.
    • Discussed sending out a community post about the new website mid Aug - community can give their input, and give screenshots. Give reasoning of changed focus. Send: mid August.

  • Case studies on current plone.org - how to categorize? Looks manual. Updated the case study submission form. Added A multilingual Plone 6 relaunch for Amnesty International Switzerland and A large-scale Plone 6 headless deployment for a Swiss canton. Also add these:

  • PloneConf update:

    • Reviewing CfPs - will start confirming accepted talks next week, two confirmed Keynotes, teasers, social posts.
    • Buy your tickets
    • Suggestion: have some open slots/open spaces. With topics suggestions like talk about contribution recognition, and new plone.org, plone.edu.
    • Conference team AMA - on next TuneUp Day 21 Aug.

  • July Tune Up Day

New business:

  • Bufferapp:
    • cleanup suggestions
    • timezone issues
  • Discord Onboarding Suggestion: Add a locked and pinned welcome channel to the discord (we have currently only sprint there), not only explaining netiquette but a briefer more entry focused explaining overview of the main channels and topics (compared with” Browse Channels”). Example from Python Discord Community: Discord
  • Suggestion to update the wikipedia page for Plone

Meeting ends: 16h15 UTC

Next meeting: Aug 11, 2026 @ 15h UTC