=============== Zope Foundation =============== Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Directors ============================================== Date and Time: Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 14:00 UTC Location: IRC meeting, irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Directors Present: Martijn Faassen Rob Page Eric Casteleijn Jens Vagelpohl Tres Seaver Quorum Present: Yes Martijn called the meeting to order at 14h04m UTC. The agenda is accepted as follows: 1. Status reports a. Minutes status (Eric) b. Treasury (Rob) c. Web site status (Jodok) d. By-laws status (Martijn) e. Non-profit status (Rob) 2. Trademark (Martijn, Jodok) 3. User groups a. ZF support fo formalize design/identity elements for reuse by community groups (Jens) b. User group contact (Tres) c. domain names (Rob) 4. Technical infrastructure a. Moving foundation/wiki/apidoc.zope.org to a new server (Jens) 5. Miscellaneous 6. Adjournment 1.a. Minutes status (Eric) -------------------------- The secretary reports that all the minutes are approved and online. As for the old minutes, he has asked the previous chairman and secretary for anything they might have and is still waiting for a reply. The chairman asks the secretary to remind the previous chairman. 1.b. Treasury (Rob) ------------------- The treasurer reports no changes in fincances. The chairman suggests that the treasurer's report be formalized as follows, from now on: a) Financial reports sent each quarter (@ quarter's end) with open discussion on the board meeting next following the distribution of the complete financialstatements. b) brief written updates from the treasurer on any material transactions and goings on at all other board meetings. This procedure is adopted unanimously. 1.c. Web site status (Jodok) ---------------------------- Jodok is not present, Martijn reports in his stead that there is still steady movement on the mailing list about it, and servers are being arranged and buildouts written. 1.d. By-laws status (Martijn) ----------------------------- Martijn did not yet get to copying the PSF's by-laws yet, but will do so soon. 1.e. Non-profit status (Rob) ---------------------------- This point was not discussed. 2. Trademark (Martijn, Jodok) ----------------------------- Xavier of ZEA has asked that the chairman of the ZFBoD be present at all future trademark discussions. The board has no objections to this. Xavier also promised a final reply to the ZF offer in early march. Martijn also asked Xavier whether ZEA objected to the ZF taking over the Brazilian trademark, but hasn't heard back on that topic. 3.a. ZF support fo formalize design/identity elements ----------------------------------------------------- Jens has a list of "elements", mostly web design elements, that can be used to document the design guide, when the new site is done. He still needs vector based logos and a place to publish the guidelines and these files. Rob has eps and ttf files. He will send them to Jens. Everything can initially be published on foundation.zope.org and moved to the new site later. 3.b. User group contact (Tres) ------------------------------ The only recent zug-sig activity is discussion of federating events calendar, targeting the new zope.org /community section. The blockers right now are technical: For instance, how to get the feeds generated cleanly from all the local sites Tres and Chris have spoken to a number of the US user groups recently, telling them about the new new zope.org and to contact Martin Aspelli if they want to help out, and it appears there are a number other active groups. 3.c. domain names (Rob) ----------------------- It appears a notorious domain parker has applied for various asian zope domains. These are expensive (around US$3500 for a ten year registry, with no shorter periods available.) The board decides to pass on trying to acquire these registrations. The Zope Foundation should try to find out about user groups in Asia and reach out to them and at least make them aware of its existence. 4.a. Moving foundation/wiki/apidoc.zope.org to a new server (Jens) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jens has asked for quotes from more than half a dozen providers. In essence, European providers are cost-prohibitive due to higher bandwidth cost. He will send mail to the board list summarizing the data and making suggestions that can be voted on. Another possibility is moving svn.zope.org onto the new server. This too will be discussed further on the mailing list. 5. Miscellaneous ---------------- Nothing miscellaneous. 6. Adjournment -------------- The next ZF BoD meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 2008-03-11 14:00 UTC The chairman adjourns the meeting at 14h48m 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 ___________ The Chairman bid the Secretary keep these minutes on file.