Plone Foundation Board Minutes August 4, 2022
Meeting called to order at 19:06 UTC
Housekeeping
Attendance
Present: Erico Andre, Paul Roland, Andy Leeb, William Fennie, Victor Fernandez de Alba, Jens Klein
Absent: Kim Paulissen (excused)
Action Items
- Paul: zope.de, zodb.org, wsgi.org - folks are on holiday, so we have to wait
- Sponsorship - Erico reached out to Sally and TKim
- Erico - will reach out about sponsorships
- Victor - share release no change yet
- Marketing - new members News Items in progress
Incoming Correspondence
- GitHub - Erico responded, Paul will contact Beth for W9 tax forms, people are on holiday this week
New Business
- N/A
Continued Business
- Plone Conference 2022
- Registration is open
- Sponsors
- Confirmed trainings
- [Executive Session]
- More talks! Tell your friends!
- Plone Foundation Census
- Response ratio is a bit low
- Membership mailing list emails are being flagged as spam
- gmail warns of phishing
- we will need to determine how to ensure that these aren't flagged
- gmail warns of phishing
- We'll push for more responses before sending out more messages
- Board will think about how to make renewal frictionless
- Sponsorship program
- You don't need to be a member, but sponsorship counts as merit towards membership
- Board will come up with a solution
- Contributor Agreement digitization
- EU version of agreement will be prioritized, US/UK elements to follow
- Zope Foundation Funds
- William has been working on this
- We need help walking through legal hurdles to release funds
- William to follow up with appropriate persons
- William has been working on this
- Review Ongoing
Review Ongoing
- AI Team - linode data-center outages caused some issues, blocking Plone installs (dist.plone.org, conf sites)
- team will discuss contingency plans
- Nonprofit version of Google
- shared drive, lets start to plan the move to the shared folders
Andy moved to adjourn, Erico seconded
Unanimously approved
Meeting adjourned at 19:46 UTC