By Luca Marzo on 2022-06-02 15:53 in Board of Directors

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

Date: May 19, 2022
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 10 minutes

Attendees:

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

Apologies:

Robert Deutz (President), Radek Suski (Treasurer).

Proxies:

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Discussion outline

Production Department

• Preparation for a GSoD sprint is in progress.

• Joomla! 4.1.4 is released earlier (Tuesday, 24th May) as there were some annoying bugs
  4.1.5 will then be in the regular schedule and the last of the 4.1.x series

• Automated testing made huge progress in terms of moving from Jenkins to drone. Still a lot of manpower needed.

• Result of the security discussion regarding “binded login methods” is now a big change in the login process to be more flexible with Multi-factor Authentication. Thanks to Nicholas Dionysopoulos (and others) starting implementing it already.

• Joomla! 5.0 branch will be created very soon, just waiting for the code style PR to be merged.

• Docker images were updated (thanks to Llewellyn)

• GSoC received 5 slots this year, also OSPP is ongoing.

Outreach Department

• Magazine articles ready and loaded for May. 

• Anja is going for team lead in Magazine

• SD is going for team lead in Events 

• All merchandise delivered to JDay France. (Wall and Stickers) Need to get Tom's invoice paid. QR code needs to point to the landing page

• Marketing ready for J4.1.4 release.

 

Harald Leithner joined the meeting at 17:20 UTC.

Operations Department

• No major updates.

Vice President

• No major updates.

Secretary

• [Harbor Compliance] There are some overdue invoices related to the Compliance services that we already approved.

• [Correspondence] Received a document from Citibank related to the continuous KYC process. Urgent action is necessary prior to May 20th. 

• [Agreements] Since there were no comments in the past two weeks regarding the Partnership Agreement with Mattermost, we could proceed with the approval of the amendments and move forward with the partnership.

• [Agreements] Since there were no comments or objections during the past two weeks regarding the Cooperation Agreement with the Joomla Foundation, we can move forward.

• [Elections] No manifestos have been submitted for the Replacement Election of the Treasurer within the deadline. The Call has been therefore extended by 2 additional weeks.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2022/044 - Approve the amended version of the Partnership Agreement with Mattermost and move to the signature phase.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Philip Walton.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

#2022/045 - Approve the Cooperation Agreement with the Joomla Foundation and authorize the Vice President to proceed with the signature.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Philip Walton.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

#2022/046 - 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

#2022/043 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Robert Deutz.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.