By Luca Marzo on 2022-06-02 15:44 in Board of Directors

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

Date: April 07, 2022
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 00 minutes

Attendees:

Robert Deutz (President), Nicola Galgano (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Radek Suski (Treasurer), Benjamin Trenkle (Director), David Opati Aswani (Director), Harald Leithner (Director), Philip Walton (Director).

Apologies:

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Proxies:

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Discussion outline

Treasurer

  • Radek shared the bank balances as of today.

    • Business Checking 1:  $ 18,389.55

    • Business Checking 2:  $ 19,878.39

    • Money Market:  $ 330,029.39

    • PayPal:  $ 26.67

  • Radek shared the Profit & Losses Report as of today.

  • Radek is retrieving the account statements on Citibank.

  • Downloaded reports from QuickBooks. Both contain all transactions beginning from January of 2016.

  • Resubscribed to QuickBooks using PayPal.

Production Department

  • 3.10.7 & 3.10.8, 4.1.1 & 4.1.2, 4.2.0 Alpha 1 released. Security fix was too restricted, so we re-released without this fix and will do a sprint to solve it this month.

  • GSoC contributor application period started.

  • JSST sprint planned for the 10th - 12th June: Signed Updated.

Marketing & Communications Department

  • First real meetings are happening again and Marc has requested help with JoomlaDay France.

  • Louise Hawkins has been elected Marketing Team Lead.

  • We need to find replacements in the Social Media Team, meeting with them planned for next week.

Events Department

  • OSM got the Platinum Sponsorship tier for JoomlaDay USA. OSM also has a booth in the Expo Hall.

Operations Department

  • Welcomed new Teams to Operations.

  • Talked about reported trademark definition issues with the TM Team lead.

  • On the way to finalizing the switch from 1Password to Bitwarden.

  • Searching for an organizer for the new Joomla.org template.

Secretary

  • [Elections] The election for the Outreach DC is completed. ADoodle.org 

  • [Contracts] The Partnership Agreement draft for the Communication Tool is in the review phase. 

  • [Contracts] The Amendment to the Partnership Agreement regarding launch.joomla.org has been shared with the vendor for review.

  • [Structure] With the election of the Outreach DC and the move of teams within the volunteers portal, the structure change voted by the members in December has been completed. 

President

  • Quarterly report finished.

  • Robert requested to cancel the AnswerAmerica account.

  • Robert is solving the issue with access to QuickBooks.

  • Robert started the discussion for the 2022/23 Budget, inviting Board members to start involving teams in the planning process.

Other Business

  • The Board discussed the Code of Conduct incident report regarding the Forum. The Vice President will conduct the hearings with the involved parties.

  • The Board would like to thank Philip Walton for his service as Marketing & Communications DC and David Aswani for his service as Events Department Coordinator. These Departments are now being merged into the new Outreach Department.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2022/036 - The Secretary proposes to adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Radek Suski.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Motions taken offline before this meeting

#2022/035 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Robert Deutz.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.