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

  • Bank Balances:

    • Business Checking 1:  $ 33,615.09

    • Business Checking 2:  $ 11,205.99

    • Money Market:  $ 330,202.23

    • PayPal:  $ 94.52

  • No report as it contains no data.

  • The PayPal account needs to be fixed.

  • Radek will ensure the payment of the Harbor Compliance invoice as soon as possible.

Production Department

  • Joomla! 4.2.0 released, thank you to Roland & Franciska and all helpers.

  • Joomla! 3.10.11 released, thanks Tobias.

  • The UX team is in formation, when stabilized it will make a motion to become an official team.

  • Several motions regarding releases and deprecations are defined.

  • Also a better binding to tests (Cypress is done, now we need some experience) and documentation for PRs is planned.

  • Several sprints are planned for the next months: JSST, Maintenance Team. Nicola requested additional details about sprints’ goals.

  • Statement planned for the upcoming week regarding the releases of Joomla 5.x.

  • Looking for maintainers for the "old search".

Outreach Department

  • Press releases for 4.2 and the birthday sent.

  • Videos from Brian Teeman and the Marketing team made live on the Birthday.

  • The 17 reasons to love Joomla campaign finished with many entries.

  • Magazine out for Birthday with 17 websites featured.

  • Quarterly Outreach Teams meetings in planning.

Operations Department

  • Glip export is limited to admin accounts only.

  • Mattermost in progress.

  • AWS grant is pending.

Vice President

  • Nicola requested a post-mortem comment about the issues with the Joomla 4.2.0 release.

  • The blog post of 5.0 release date has worried the community https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/discussions/38407 

  • 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

  • [Elections] The elections results for Operations DC, Outreach DC and Vice President have been published: Joomla Group 1 Elections - Partial Results and Recommendations 

  • [Elections] The election for the Treasurer is still in progress. Results expected for August 31, 2022.

  • [Grants] Luca submitted the request for a new AWS grant.

President

  • 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.