By Luca Marzo on 2022-06-02 15:45 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: 55 minutes

Attendees:

Robert Deutz (President), Nicola Galgano (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Benjamin Trenkle (Director), Harald Leithner (Director), Philip Walton (Director).

Apologies:

Radek Suski (Treasurer)

Proxies:

Luca Marzo served as proxy for Radek Suski.

Discussion outline

Production Department

  • Nothing to report, teams are very busy with their work, seeing a high engagement everywhere.

Operation Department

  • Transition from 1Password to BitWarden has been completed.

  • Started the working group for the Joomla.org template.

  • Next operation meeting will be in 2 weeks.

  • Trademark rules review in progress.

Outreach Department

  • Meeting with the Social Media team and new Marketing Team Lead and myself to go through their retirement to other departments.

  • Looking into providing merchandising for JoomlaDay France and other events.

  • Members of the board are requested to be available Friday and Sunday for the OSM booth.

Vice President

  • Nicola chased the closure of an issue on the GitHub tracker.

  • Nicola received a couple of answers from the Advisory Board members. 

  • Nicola conducted the hearing about the recent code of conduct incident, trying to solve it in a friendly way.

Secretary

  • [Contracts] Mattermost still reviewing the agreement.

  • [Reports] Quarterly reports were due on April 06 (Group 2) and April 10 (Group 1).

  • [AdSense] Received payment from Google Adsense for USD 1959,08. Luca urged the relevant Departments to check the huge amount of invalid clicks collected every month in AdSense.

President

  • Updated the OSM Site Frontpage so that we promote an up to date Joomla Version.

  • Added a section for the quarterly reports.

  • Made budget sheets for the departments.

  • Planning a flight to NYC for getting access to the bank accounts. Would be 23/5 to NYC and back at 26/5, so I have two full days to figure out the Bank issue.

  • Still trying to get all information for a blog post about the budget’s

  • Updated the Federal Filings page CHAR500 and IRS990 were mixed together.

  • Robert invited the Board Members to review the role descriptions published on the OSM website.

  • Robert suggested replacing Adobe EchoSign because of the limitation of the current plan.

  • Board Members have been added to the GitHub organization dedicated to OSM management with their personal account in addition to their role-based accounts.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2022/038 - The Secretary proposes to adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Philip Walton.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Motions taken offline before this meeting

#2022/037 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Robert Deutz.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.