OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - August 25, 2022
By Luca Marzo on 2022-10-01 14:31 in Board of Directors
Open Source Matters, Inc.
Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting
Date: August 25, 2022
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour minutes
Attendees:
Robert Deutz (President), Radek Suski (Treasurer), Nicola Galgano (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Philip Walton (Director), Harald Leithner (Director).
Apologies:
Benjamin Trenkle (Director) for the first part of the meeting
Proxies:
Harald Leithner served as proxy for Benjamin Trenkle.
Discussion outline
Treasurer
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Bank Balances:
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Business Checking 1: $ 33,615.09
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Business Checking 2: $ 11,205.99
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Money Market: $ 330,202.23
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PayPal: $ 94.52
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No report as it contains no data.
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The PayPal account needs to be fixed.
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Radek will ensure the payment of the Harbor Compliance invoice as soon as possible.
Production Department
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Joomla! 4.2.0 released, thank you to Roland & Franciska and all helpers.
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Joomla! 3.10.11 released, thanks Tobias.
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The UX team is in formation, when stabilized it will make a motion to become an official team.
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Several motions regarding releases and deprecations are defined.
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Also a better binding to tests (Cypress is done, now we need some experience) and documentation for PRs is planned.
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Several sprints are planned for the next months: JSST, Maintenance Team. Nicola requested additional details about sprints’ goals.
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Statement planned for the upcoming week regarding the releases of Joomla 5.x.
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Looking for maintainers for the "old search".
Outreach Department
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Press releases for 4.2 and the birthday sent.
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Videos from Brian Teeman and the Marketing team made live on the Birthday.
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The 17 reasons to love Joomla campaign finished with many entries.
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Magazine out for Birthday with 17 websites featured.
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Quarterly Outreach Teams meetings in planning.
Operations Department
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Glip export is limited to admin accounts only.
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Mattermost in progress.
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AWS grant is pending.
Vice President
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Nicola requested a post-mortem comment about the issues with the Joomla 4.2.0 release.
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The blog post of 5.0 release date has worried the community https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/discussions/38407
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Nicola proposed to discuss at the next Semi-Annual Members Meeting the Joomla release cycle.
Benjamin Trenkle joined the call at 17.45 UTC.
Secretary
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[Elections] The elections results for Operations DC, Outreach DC and Vice President have been published: Joomla Group 1 Elections - Partial Results and Recommendations
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[Elections] The election for the Treasurer is still in progress. Results expected for August 31, 2022.
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[Grants] Luca submitted the request for a new AWS grant.
President
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No updates from the ongoing legal cases.
Motions taken during this meeting
#2022/064 - 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
#2022/063 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Robert Deutz.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.