Plone Foundation Board Minutes January 20, 2022
Meeting called to order at 20:04 UTC UTC
Housekeeping
Attendance
Present: Érico Andrei, William Fennie, Victor Férnandez de Alba, Jens Klein, Andy Leeb, Kim Paulissen, Paul Roeland
Absent: Andy Leeb, excused
Approval of the minutes of January 6, 2022
William moved the minutes be accepted; Kim seconded
Unanimously Approved
Action Items
- The Marketing budget is complete. The marketing budget will include support of non-sprint activites.
- A news item about the Plone Foundation priorities for 2022 needs to be written (william)
Incoming Correspondence
- Question about sponsorship
- AWS Invoice
- Needs less than $1.00 payment for something
- This relates to a Known Good Set (Plone 3) on AWS that nobody can access; it can be ignored.
- Or perhaps Erico can get credentials back ?
- Should the board acquire the domain worldploneday.ch
New Business
- GSOC
- Eric Bréhault will manage the process
- Coming week need to suggest a move to concrete proposals (3-5)
- not super formal but detailed in terms of who, what, etc.
- mid-February-ish
- Feb. 7 open for forms submission - Paul has details and will manage it
- Mid-Feb need to have a page somewhere
- On the website or a Google doc
- Stronger proposals come when sensible ideas are identified
- 18-years or older, but not required to be a university student
- Two actions items
GSoC news item
Fill form by Feb. 7
The board thanks Eric Bréhault for volunteering
Continued Business
- Priorities
- News item - after this is written, post to:
- Community.plone.org
- Ping Fred & Philip in Newsroom
- [Executive Session]
- Budget
- [Executive Session]
- Marketing team worked on budget
- Best estimate because of COVID restrictions
- Foundation is not organizing Plone conference this year
- Plone store - expecting small income for the year, on the order of US$400
- Advertising
- Perhaps a bit high ? - that not used will be used elsewhere
- Looking for companies that know how to do it
- Marketing is looking for support from Red Turtle or others
- Need to find someone who can manage ad placements
- Sprints
- Jens or Victor write about the sprint designations:
- Mega, large, small, community
- Community sprints aren't really happening
- Mega, large, small are more productive
- Update by cutting down on number of community sprints (hasn't caught on)
- Community sprints a possible asset in Brasil - qualifies as small sprint
- Sprint budget for this year is best case scenario.
- William moved to accept the budget; Kim seconded; motion carried.
- World Plone Day
- Need institutional content from the Plone Foundation
- Can use video to introduce the Foundation
- Avoid last year's situation of few people doing many things
- Make something edible / drinkable with the Plone logo
Review Ongoing
- Ongoing
- There has been a flurry of activity on Plone Docs
- Steve very active; also Katja
- Soon we should have something presentable
- Represents genuine forward motion
- Lots of discussion to integrate current Volto docs
- Hosting - If don't get open source discount we should move to our own servers.
- Working well so don't stop the movement
- Steve - placement of dev documentation for the Volto site ?
- Value to having documentation side-by-side with the code
- otherwise docs get lost
- Docs need to live in one place, otherwise people won't find them
- Value to having documentation side-by-side with the code
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Plone.org - sprint
- content
- organization
- Victor mini-sprint with Philip on Blocks conversion tool
- fixing things in RestAPI / Plone-volto
- Plone 6 Alpha 3 will release with Plone Volto
- Plone 6 classic - lots of fixes, losing requireJS dependencies
- hope it's ready for Alpha 3
Paul moved that the meeting be adjourned; Victor seconded; motion unanimously approved.
Meeting adjourned at 21:00 UTC