Pylons Project Assimilation Team Minutes 2019-01-28

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Pylons Project Assimilation Team Minutes

Roll Call

Present

• Érico Andrei
• Paul Everitt
• Carol Ganz
• Alexander Loechel
• Steve Piercy
• Paul Roeland
• Matthew Wilkes

Minutes

Approved.

Pylons Project Assimilation Team

Meeting called to order at 19:01 UTC. Housekeeping Attendance Present: Érico Andrei Paul Everitt Carol Ganz Alexander Loechel Michael Merickel Steve Piercy Bert JW Regeer Paul Roeland Matthew Wilkes Nejc Zupan Introductions Attendees briefly introduced themselves and expressed their interest in the purpose of this team. The purpose of this team is to bring the Pylons Project under the Plone Foundation to establish legal and financial instruments to handle intellectual property, lice…

Revise statutes and regulatory docs

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• Articles of Incorporation
  • No changes needed.
• Bylaws
  • Up to us, what, if anything needs to change.
  • We must refile them with the State of Delaware if we change them.
  • No attorney needed.
• 501(c)(3) status
  • Possibly need to notify the IRS whether "related technologies" will include the Pylons Project.
  • Paul has made inquiries with OSI to obtain free legal advice, as well as other non-profits.
  • Paul Roeland would appreciate advice from contacts in the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and other organizations.
  • Carol will attempt to locate notes from when she served on the ASF board regarding this topic.
• Contributor Agreement
  • Needs legal advice.
  • Steve Piercy relayed an email from Matthew Wilkes in which he stated that the Zope integration project would benefit from having the contributor agreement process sorted.
  • Paul Roeland will place a draft of the CA in markdown format in the Pylons Project Assimiltion repo for review and comment.

Document all GitHub repos under Pylons organization

• See the GitHub issue Document all GitHub repos under Pylons organization #4 and the Google Sheet Pylons repositories, PyPI projects, and licensing.
• Steve will double check repos for actual licenses.
• Repos under no license assume the most strict license under German law. Not good.

Discuss whether to change software license to MIT for software and CC-BY-SA for documentation

• Every person who has ever made a "meaningful contribution to a work" must sign the current Plone CA for each project.
  • About the CA
  • PDF of CA to sign and return by email to agreements@plone.org
• We must make a "strong effort" to contact contributors in writing by email, US Mail, fax, IRC. That means at least 5 attempts using 2 different methods in writing, no phone or video calls, over a 3-month period.
• Plone Foundation Board makes the decision of whether to change the license for the repo.

Next steps

Please check the project board and issue tracker for open issues and prioritize as needed.

Next meeting

Monday, February 25
11:00 AM Pacific / 19:00 UTC
Fourth Monday of the month

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