Plone Foundation Board Minutes January 07, 2021

ableeb1 · January 21, 2021, 9:10pm

Meeting called to order at 19:03 UTC

Housekeeping

Present: Chrissy Wainwright, William Fennie, Erico Andrei, Paul Roeland, Jens Klein, Andy Leeb, Victor Fernandez de Alba

Absent:

Erico moved to approve, Jens seconded

Unanimously Approved

2021 Budget
- Chrissy and Erico will spearhead this effort
Google Summer of Code
- Paul - will continue to work on this
[Executive Session]
Ambassadors
- Maybe reorganize as an adjunct of the marketing team
- Reporting to marketing team
- Update list, William is no longer an ambassador
Plone installers
- classic, Plone 6, Volto (npm), per platform installers, pip install plone, Digital Ocean button...
- installing Plone in China is hard
- we need to unify this story, Plone Board can offer strategic oversight/roadmapping
  - a number of issues with our current installer
    - a bit long in the tooth
    - windows does not really work well
    - current installer is a bunch of bash scripts, not workable for Plone 6
    - docker images/containerization for devops
    - buildout isn't needed for development as much as it was in the past
  - Jens - will organize a team to discuss

Plone Conference 2020
- Chrissy has been working on the Python Foundation adminstrivia, will work with Jen for an invoice
- Videos need to be uploaded to YouTube
  - some automation is required
  - Erico, Paul, MaryBeth will coordinate
Review Ongoing

new Plone Board page will be published
CloudFlare Plone Web firewall rules for Plone - community maintain rule set, and CF would get it
- see if people are available to work on this, post on community.plone.org
- AI team will also work on this

Paul moved to adjourn, William seconded

Unanimously approved

Meeting adjourned at 19:59 UTC