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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - February 01, 2024

By Luca Marzo on 2024-04-04 18:18 in Board of Directors

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

Date: February 01, 2024
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 00 minutes

Attendees:

Crystal Dionysopoulos (President), Philip Walton (Vice President), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Louise Hawkins (Director).

Apologies:

Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Luca Marzo (Secretary)

Proxies:

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Discussion outline

Treasurer

  • The payment from CloudAccess has been duly processed.

  • eLTS Fee from January: € 709,20

  • Nadja worked on the reimbursement form.

  • Nadja shared the bank balances as of today.

Production Department

  • Joomla 5.1 Alpha 3 has been released successfully.

  • Production is helding a survey for Joomla 6, about the usage of different components and their potential removal for new installations.

  • Discussions about backend modules to reach Joomla admins.

Outreach Department

  • [Situation Analysis] Louise has made good progress on this in Looker Studio. It comprises an overview page of all websites, official social channels, which all links to a more detailed view. It gives us a good overview of who is visiting what and from where. The objective is to identify opportunities and guide in creating an overall digital marketing strategy. Aim is to complete the task within next week.

  • [Social Media] Priority to create new content, would like to introduce some themes of content, user tips, industry news, product highlights, partner spotlight, user polls, longer form content and carousels are just a few ideas.

  • [Social Media Influencers] The team is exploring the opportunity to involve influencers to increase awareness of Joomla.

  • [Migration to Joomla 4/5] Louise proposed to run some polls on social media to understand users’ biggest obstacles, so that workshops can be tailored accordingly.

  • [Holopin] Marketing are finalizing the first designs. A meeting with Louise, Sigrid and Tom will be held to move forward with this.

  • [Wikipedia] A new volunteer for the Marketing Team will take over this activity.

  • [Recruitment] Louise brought up the discussion on how to structure the campaign to recruit new volunteers and the workflow for newcomers.

Operations Department

  • No major updates.

Vice President

  • Philip is working on the Academy program. Held some meetings on proposed GSoC and looking to have a backup in place, should we not be accepted this year.

Secretary

President

  • [Sponsorships] Crystal to meet a current sponsor next week, looking to expand the current sponsorship.

  • [PBF Sponsorship] Tassos.gr confirmed as sponsor in February and August 2024.

  • [Cultural Improvement Project] Proposed to organize a meeting along JandBeyond. 

  • [JUGs] Crystal attended the JUG Leadership meeting arranged by Laura. It’s a common request to check whether JUG organizers can receive the right to vote within OSM. 

  • [FOSDEM] Trying to organize a social get together for CMS contributors or speakers in the dev room.

  • Open Website Alliance charter has been officially approved by Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3 and WordPress. Need a press release announcing it on or after Monday February 5th.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2024/004 - The President proposes to adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Crystal Dionysopoulos, seconded by Philip Walton
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Motions taken offline before this meeting

#2024/003 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Crystal Dionysopoulos.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.