=============== Zope Foundation =============== Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Directors ============================================== Date and Time: Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 14:00 UTC Location: IRC meeting, irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Directors Present: Martijn Faassen Rob Page Eric Casteleijn Jens Vagelpohl Jodok Batlogg Tres Seaver Quorum Present: Yes Martijn called the meeting to order at 14h00m UTC. The agenda is accepted as follows: 1. Procedural a. Publication of minutes of last meetings (Eric) b. Publication of general meeting minutes (Eric) 2. Treasurer's report (Rob) 3. Committee reports a. Web committee (Jodok) b. By-laws committee (Martijn) 4. Trademark discussion: Martijn's meeting with Xavier (Martijn) 5. Miscellaneous 6. Adjournment 1.a. Publication of minutes of last meetings (Eric) --------------------------------------------------- The chairman asks the status of publication of the minutes of meetings past. The secretary says all but the last board meeting minutes since the annual meeting are on-line. He will nag the last stragglers into approving the 12/18 meetings, so those too can be published. Tres indicates that the minutes for July 2007 have also not yet been posted. The secretary will do so. The chairman asks about the status of the minutes of meetings before 2007. The secretary will get in touch with Aroldo and Rob to get them, and post them (possibly in summarized form.) 1.b. Publication of general meeting minutes (Eric) -------------------------------------------------- The minutes of the general meeting are on-line. 2. Treasurer's report --------------------- The treasurer reports receiving money from Google, paying Stefanie's final invoice, and no reply on the application for non-profit status as of yet. 3.a. Web committee report ------------------------- Jodok reports that the development site is on-line at: http://new.zope.org It is not finished yet, but enough that people can work on it. The layout needs some more work. There are people volunteering to add content, so that needs to be organized. 3.b. By-laws committee report ----------------------------- Martijn reports no activity, and expresses intent to work on adapting the Python Software Foundation by-laws during the coming snow sprint. Rob volunteers to help, and Eric volunteers to give feedback. 4. Trademark discussion: Martijn's meeting with Xavier (Martijn) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Martijn spoke with Xavier when they met for unrelated business, and his conclusion is that a resolution to the trademark issue is not likely in the near future. Martijn hopes that switching the by-laws and transferring copyrights will begin to build some more trust between the parties. Jodok proposes to try to get a binding offer from ZEA for transferal of the trademark first, and then decide what to do. The secretary will draft a letter for the chairman to sign and send, stating that Jodok acts as an official envoy of the board, referring to the published minutes: http://foundation.zope.org/minutes/zfbod-minutes-20071112.txt 5. Miscellaneous ---------------- Jens raises two miscellaneous points: * The free server at Amaze is continuing to be problematic. It's underpowered (presumably because wiki.zope.org is very resource-hungry), and repeated attempts to improve the situation have not had the desired effect. Jens moves that the foundation consider spending money to rent a real server somewhere which we can control and specify better. He is prepared to do some research and suggest solutions. Tres seconds the motion, and it is carried unanimously. * The German Zope User Group, DZUG e.V., is asking the foundation to take the web design work for the new zope.org site one step further and produce collateral that can be used for marketing purposes, such as logos, presentation templates, etc. The goal is to have one unified "corporate identity" for community activities like user groups, which can be used by those groups. The question is, is the designer working on the new zope.org design willing to do so? Or is the foundation willing to spend some extra money to produce this kind of collateral material based on zope.org designs? Jens will get a list of desired marketing assets from DZUG, and post them to the foundation board mailing list. This will be discussed further in the next board meeting. 6. Adjournment -------------- The next ZF BoD meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 2008-02-12 14:00 UTC The chairman adjourns the meeting at 16h03m UTC. These minutes were written by the secretary, Eric, according to the notes taken during the meeting. These minutes were posted to the foundation-board@zope.org mailing list and approved by all directors on January 17, 2008 The Chairman bid the Secretary keep these minutes on file.