Minutes of previous meeting Jan 21st 2021 posted at:
Attending: Rikupekka, Norbert, William, Fulvio, Sally, Erico
Agenda
- Current issues
- News and events
- Plone.org
- Other issues
Current issues
- Volto early adopters meeting last Friday
- Asked for events and help in plone.org renewal
- What’s the status of https://volto.plone.org/?
- Outdated content, ambivalence from Volto folks
- Decision: Keep it but hide outdated content
- Budget
- Revenues: Plone Foundation sponsors
- Marketing team could use some budget
- Marketing team could discuss on items/things that help/cost money -> use spreadsheet to record ideas and share with Board
- Main item on next meeting
- Reach out to Armin and ask for his ideas (Fulvio?)
- Expenses
- Revenues: Plone Foundation sponsors
- Sponsorships: how to thank returning ones?
- Decision: tweet thanks
- Fulv could ping Rikupekka in Slack to tweet? Need a better process for scheduling tweets about sponsorship renewals
- Decided to use a spreadsheet and put the messages there
- Plone shop?
- Continue working on it. Continue discussion next week.
News and events
- Ploneconf: advertise the videos and presentation slides
- When are the videos online?
- Asked at board meeting if they know of upcoming events
- Not a lot of information of potential sprints
- Questions for the steering Circle news item published: Questions for the Steering Circle?
- Sponsorship reminder news item
- Other news items
- 2021 - list of upcoming events. Ping the organizers to add events to plone.org. Status?
- Alpine sprint -> it will be online
- Plone Tagung -> not happening this year, using WPD to communicate with German community
- Bonn/Beethoven sprint -> ?
- Write news item about upcoming remote sprints
- Plone relations sprint happened last weekend -> Sally will write news item and create events for the finished and follow up sprints
- Erico, WPD -> next week
- PLOG (thinking about fall) -> Discuss soon with Paul and who else? (need to start lining up hotel dates)
- Plone.org sprint(s)
- Short term -> after marketing does a little more work we can schedule and advertise (News and Community) a short term fixes plone.org sprint
- Big renovation -> not ready yet to advertise, need more discussion
- Python web conf -> Event published
- Plone conference dates -> board discusses.
- Plone conf committee installed
Plone.org renewal
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Work done on weeks 1-3
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When and how to work on plone.org renewal?
- Sprints
- Marketing team meetings
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Plone.org sprint(s)
- Ongoing
- February-March to continue short-term marketing team work on current plone.org
- Discuss on Slack about a proper weekend/day(s).
- Decided on 20.-21 Feb 2021 at 10 am Boston 3pm UTC for the next one (will be after our next marketing meeting discussion)
- Decide on March data and whether just marketing or wider
- Migrate to 5.2 and Python 3. Authentication
- Jens: “I volunteer to work on authentication as I did already in Bukarest for the current plone.org.”
- Clean up addons before migration -> Created ticket
- Then (flesh this out next next meeting): Feb 18 2021
- Need a design (spring) - idea: use (mostly) vanilla volto?
- Idea to ask Board for budget to reimburse a designer
- Update to Volto (mosaic, form folders (9) are a problem, other archetypes) (summer)
- Tied to the discussion below about tracking Plone versions - need to define how to get from where we are to 6, and make the migration a community project
- Where to focus the efforts? Who are we trying to reach? The bigger picture?
- The content on plone.org is actually a valuable resource (for marketing and for the community
- Need a design (spring) - idea: use (mostly) vanilla volto?
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Short term Plone.org improvements
- Install p.a.imagecropping on plone.org -> use playbook
- Github version of plone.org.core was a shell
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Idea update plone.org with every new version of Plone
- Next plone.org needs to be Volto, Plone 6
- Group of people that consider it as a project
- Some kind of “sponsor thank you” for people who take time of company hours