=============== Zope Foundation =============== Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Directors ============================================== Date and Time: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 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 14h03m UTC. The agenda is accepted as follows: 1. Procedural a. Meeting notice waivers from Jens and Eric b. Publication of minutes last meetings 2. Treasurer's report (Rob) 3. Committee reports a. Web committee (Jodok) b. By-laws committee (Jim) 4. Local user groups (Tres) 5. Trademark discussion status a. Notification for ZEA for Jodok 6. Collector review (Tres) 7. Miscellaneous 8. Adjournment 1.a. Meeting notice waivers from new members Jens and Eric -------------------------------------------------------- These were already received and filed by last meeting. 1.b. Minutes last meeting ------------------------ The secretary has not yet published the minutes of the last two meetings on the website, and promises to do so this week. 2. Treasurer's report --------------------- The treasurer reports having submitted his report for approval through email. The secretary will include the report as an addendum to the minutes. 3.a. Web committee report ------------------------- Jodok reports that due to some miscommunication people were waiting on eachother. The blocks have been unblocked, and things are moving once more. 3.b. By-laws committee report ----------------------------- Martijn reports that Jim has sent a lot of mail to the committee mailing list recently, and that the hope is that people will respond soon. 4. Local user groups -------------------- Tres reported by mail that: - [He's] gotten about twenty new folks signed up on the list since the mid-October meeting, mostly from groups in the U.S, as provided by Chris Calloway, the organizer of the Triangle ZPUG in Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill, North Carolina. - Several list members volunteered to help maintain the user groups page on www.zope.org, which has now been updated to be more current: http://www.zope.org/Resources/UserGroups/ - List participants are interested in sharing event announcements, presentation materials, etc., and are amenable to coordinating regional speaker tours. 5.a. Notification for ZEA for Jodok ----------------------------------- The secretary has mailed Aroldo and received previous correspondence with ZEA. He will send a draft of a new letter to send to ZEA to the chairman this week. 6. Collector review ------------------- The issue for wet signatures on the waiver can be resolved, and thus is. 7. Miscellaneous ---------------- Martijn wants to give the Zope Foundation a voice on the web, through a semi-regular "message from the foundation", or possibly "... from the chairman" to be published online and maybe to zope-announce. He asks whether the board thinks this is a good idea, and what the contents of such messages should be. He would like it to be somewhat opinionated, the better to engage the rest of the zope community, so more visions on the future of Zope, than news from the Zope Foundation. An aggregation of selected blog articles is decided upon as a good start. Martijn and Eric will look at SilvaNews, to see whether it is the right tool for this job. Martijn asks everyone to think up visionary topics to write about, and promises to continue exploring this topic on the board mailing list. 8. Adjournment -------------- The next ZF BoD meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 2008-01-15 14:00 UTC The chairman adjourns the meeting at 14h39m UTC, and wishes everyone happy holidays. 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 15, 2008. The Chairman bid the Secretary keep these minutes on file. APPENDIX: Treasurer's report ---------------------------- Directors: Below is the Zope Foundation's Treasurer's report in anticipation of our meeting coming up on Wed, 19 Dec at 14h00m UTC. o There has been no change to the Foundation's financials since the last report. o We are still waiting on the GSoC fees from Google. o We are expecting one final invoice from Stephanie Kugele for her administrative work to date. o We expect an invoice from the accounting firm that assisted in the preparation of the non-profit filing this month. The invoice will be below the $3k we budgeted.