Plone Foundation Annual General Meeting

Main goals the past year:

• Strengthen the Plone Foundation. Push for more diversity in the community. We are a bit too much European, male, and white. And old? Google Summer of Code helps here. Some people travelled here by train, which is better for our carbon footprint. Have a straightforward sponsorship program. A document was drafted with a written list of requirements to organize a Plone conference or sprint. We try to find new funding sources. We are looking to establish an EU entity to reduce costs associated with financial transactions. We have better defined benefits and duties of Foundation membership. Align sprint funding with sponsorship commitments and the product roadmap, so the roadmap was aligned with the funding of sprints. A sprint should move the roadmap forward, but it is also important that it builds community. Ensure financial operations and transfer of the treasury, making the work of the treasurer future proof. Steve Piercy has stepped up for this, doing a lot of work figuring out the situation, making it clearer, make sure the treasurer has access to accounts where needed.
• Empower the Plone community. More in-person events, like sprints. Thinking of ways to better train newcomers. have a clear and community-adopted roadmap, shared between Classic and Volto Teams. The PloneEdu Team was revamped. plone.org Dev Team and Content Team, relaunch planned for next year. Helped conference organizers with regular meetings. If you know some organisation that wants to throw money at an open source, Python, Javascript project, contact Steve and he will help you write a grant application.
• Promote and market Plone. We had 8 new releases of Plone since last conference. We publish every sprint report. Improve plone.org SEO and metadata. Encouraging participation in community events: TuneUp days, sprints, World Plone Day, PloneConf. PloneGov-BR will organize a Plone Symposium in November.

We have new Foundation members. Currently 96 active members from 21 countries. 215 emeritus members. 3 pending.

• Community and code. Every month meeting of the Steering Circle, led by Eric Steele. 21 active new contributors, and 4 for Zope. GSOC: 3 students joined, supported by 6 mentors. Thank you! We had 5 strategic sprints this year. Also Plone Tune-Ups each third Friday of the month. World Plone Day with 48 videos. We supported the Plone Conference 2025 organization.
• Evangelism and outreach. CMS Garden. Plone Tagung. Some podcasts/videos. Sponsors: 6 premium, 4 standard, and a one-time 1000 dollar donation from the Frappe organisation. Plus individual sponsors via GitHub, which amounts to about 500 euro per month.

Board of Directors. We had four candidates for three seats on the next board. Elected have been Rikupekka Oksanen, Eric Brehault, and Gildardo Bautista. Thank you Mikel and Guido for their service on the board, they are stepping out now.

Alexander now "pulls a Sjoerd". That points to an old board member who always tried to end the meeting as soon as possible. Meeting adjourned.