It’s official. Lovely Systems is Strategic Developer in the Zope Foundation. I’m proud to serve in the board of directors. A warm welcome to my board fellows and the new (second) committer-member representative: Tres Seaver.

Yesterday evening we had our second board meeting at the 8. Dzug-Tagung in Potsdam. It was good and productive to meet in Real Life.

You might ask - why is Lovely Systems paying money to do unpayed community work? Well. The story is easy: Lovely Systems has strategic interest in promoting and improving Zope :)

My personal goals:

• relaunch the zope.org website: That’s a hard topic :) We need a sexy representation for a sexy product, library, platform to target developers, customers, decision makers,… Me an Martijn Faassen are leading the zope.org Website committee and trying to solve the topic. Watch the Keynote of Tres Seaver at DZUG Tagung (should be published sooner or later here) and understand what Door #3 is.
• gardening the Zope Foundation Bylaws and accompany the transfer of the intellectual property from Zope Corporation to the Zope Foundation. What’s the story behind that? Well. Read the Bylaws :) That’s a hard job we’d like to move forward during the next months.
• find a solution for the outstanding issue with the Zope Trademark. It’s important for the Zope Foundation to clear the situation. More on this topic soon.

I’m looking forward to start the conversation with the Plone Foundation as we share the common vision of evangelizing the world.

Let me know what the Zope Foundation should do for you!