=============== Zope Foundation =============== Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Directors ============================================== Date and Time: Tuesday, March 11, 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 Quorum Present: Yes Martijn called the meeting to order at 14h03m UTC. The agenda is accepted as follows: 1. Status reports a. Old minutes update (Eric) b. Treasury update (Rob) c. Web site status (Jodok) d. By-laws status (Martijn) e. Non-profit status (Rob) 2. Trademark (Martijn, Jodok) 3. User groups a. status reusable design elements (Jens) b. User groups in Asia outreach (Tres) 4. Technical infrastructure a. New server (Jens) 5. Summer of Code (Martijn) 6. Freenode IRC Registration (Jodok) 7. Miscellaneous 8. Adjournment 1.a. Old Minutes update (Eric) -------------------------- The secretary has received (fragmentary) minutes preceding 2007, and will go through them and assembles something that can be put online. 1.b. Treasury (Rob) ------------------- The treasurer reports no changes in fincances. He needs to file tax returns. That will cost some accounting money. He has asked for an estimate. 1.c. Web site status (Jodok) ---------------------------- Philipp and some other people have volunteered to deliver content for the website. The beta site is up and running, and the technology side of things is 95% ready. Parallel to that, hosting alternatives are being evaluated. A basic frame is needed for the content. Philipp wrote one, and as soon as it is on the site, people can start contributing content. 1.d. By-laws status (Martijn) ----------------------------- Martijn has started looking at the PSF by-laws, and it looks as though they would not require a lot of rewriting to fit the ZF. Martijn will mail a version with some comments to the by-laws mailing list. It seems the only other document that needs updating is the assigment parts of the contributor's agreement, the other documents can be left behind. Rob will look into what is involved in making the actual change to the new by-laws. 1.e. Non-profit status (Rob) ---------------------------- No updates. It seems unlikely the change over to new by-laws will change anything with respect to this process. 2. Trademark (Martijn, Jodok) ----------------------------- The chairman has not heard from ZEA yet. He will send out a reminder. 3.a. ZF support fo formalize design/identity elements ----------------------------------------------------- Jens received the logos from Rob and is waiting for the new zope.org. 3.b. User group contact (Tres) ------------------------------ Tres is not in attendance. 4.a. Moving foundation/wiki/apidoc.zope.org to a new server (Jens) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jens has selected two reasonable options and mailed them to the zfbod mailing list for review. He adds that we will need more than one machine if everything under *.zope.org (i.e. including svn) is to be moved. It is agreed that the highest priority is to migrate everything off of the unmaintained Amaze server. Since it is desirable that Jens play a central role in initial set-up and maintenance of the machine, it is essential to have a choice of Linux distribution, which seems problematic in the case of Roché, so hosting at Hetzner with Roché as an intermediary is off the table. Jens will talk to Hetzner to see if they will offer CentOS and let Jens' company administer the server without an intermediary. He will then ask the zfbod mailing list for a vote. 5. Summer of Code ----------------- Martijn has volunteered to be mentor coordinator. Aroldo has filed the Zope Foundation Summer of Code request with Google. The Plone Foundation contacted Martijn and under the impression that the Zope Foundation would be driving and/or funding a SoC project to port Zope 2 to Python 2.5, and he told them that there was no such project planned. Depending on how many projects are awarded to them, the Plone Foundation will reserve a slot to work on this. It is also conceivable that the Zope Foundation would consider a separate funding effort in this area. 6. Freenode IRC Registration (Jodok) ------------------------------------ Jodok has filled in the necessary forms and is waiting for a reply from freenode. He will update Christian Theune on the status. 7. Miscellaneous ---------------- No miscellaneous topics are raised. 8. Adjournment -------------- The next ZF BoD meeting is scheduled for Monday, 2008-03-31 13:00 UTC The chairman adjourns the meeting at 14h50m 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.