By Luca Marzo on 2019-12-15 18:13 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.
Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting

Date: December 05, 2019
Time: 18:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 00 minutes

Attendees:

Rowan Hoskyns Abrahall (President), Daniel Dubois (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Brian Mitchell (Treasurer), Djamel Kherbi (Director), Harald Leithner (Director), Jaz Parkyn (Director), Eric Lamy (Director).

Apologies:

Jason Nickerson (Director), Hugh Douglas-Smith (Director).

Proxies:

Daniel Dubois served as proxy for Jason Nickerson.

Rowan Hoskyns Abrahall served as proxy for Hugh Douglas-Smith.

Invited guests:

Carrie Megginson.

Discussion outline

President

• Rowan introduced Carrie Megginson who introduced herself to the Board. Carrie will help finding new sponsors for Open Source Matters, as she has been appointed as an Agent. [Carrie left the meeting after 15 minutes].

• Rowan shared the text for the Community Members Motion to reform the Board Members Nomination process following the model proposed at the Semi-Annual Members Meeting.

• Invites for forum for the future will go out on Monday morning latest.

Treasurer

• Brian shared the bank balances as of today.

• Access to PayPal will be sorted out with Luca after the meeting.

• Marquette University report out on Corporate Comms sessions.

Production Department

• Joomla 3.10 Release Lead will be Tobias Zulauf.

• Production Department is still looking for a Release Lead for Joomla 4.1.

Legal & Finance Department

• Some adjustments are needed on the Ads Server to serve properly all the ads.

Marketing & Communications Department

• Daniel shared the report about the Marketing Leadership Sprint in Bordeaux. A report will be shortly published on the Volunteers Portal.

• The Board discussed some opportunities to promote domains.joomla.org 

Events Department

• A meeting is planned to work on CMS Africa.

Operations Department

• Hugh requested a final review of the Webmasters’ Handbooks, so the Board could approve it at the next meeting.

Programs Department

• Volunteers Engagement Team met last Thursday.

Secretary

• All OSM’s .org domains have been renewed for 10 years as per the motion approved at the last meeting. 

• OSM applied as organization to the “Save .ORG” initiative, as per the motion approved at the last meeting and has been listed at https://www.eff.org/pages/coalition-letter-internet-society 

• An invoice of Harbor Compliance is pending payment (USD 27.00). The invoice is related to “Filing Fee for Managed Annual Report Service” for the Joomla Foundation.

• Jason Nickerson sent a formal leave of absence notice. Daniel Dubois to serve as proxy for Jason until next election cycle.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2019/112 - The Secretary proposes to adjourn the meeting
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Djamel Kherbi.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Motions taken offline before this meeting

#2019/111 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Djamel Kherbi.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.