By Luca Marzo on 2024-04-04 18:25 in Board of Directors

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

Date: February 08, 2024
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 25 minutes

Attendees:

Crystal Dionysopoulos (President), Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Louise Hawkins (Director).

Apologies:

Sigrid Gramlinger (Director).

Proxies:

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Discussion outline

Treasurer

• The sponsorship payment from Tassos arrived via Paypal.

• Prepared statements for Karen. A meeting is planned for next week.

• The payment related to the eLTS arrived regularly.

Outreach Department

• [Situation Analysis] Louise shared the Looker Studio dashboard of the Situation Analysis with the Board.

• [Holopin] Alireza Javaherian supplied revised designs with the sunglasses removed, they are still numbered, he has made available the files so we can create a generic version to get us started. New designs are in the folder. The Board discussed the designs and made some additional proposals for the number and type of badges to be issued to volunteers.

• [Websites] Louise would like to include in the redesign process of Joomla.org also the SEO strategy, especially the long term one.

• [Migration to J4/5] Draft of survey to collect pain points and difficulties from people will be ready for the next week. 

Vice President

• Open Website Alliance newsletter sent.

• Philip wrote an article for the magazine encouraging people to fill in the missing languages as well as inviting more to step up and become local community liaisons.

Secretary

• [Elections] Ballots for President, Secretary and Production DC are running. Call for Manifesto for Operations DC is still open.

• [Voting Rights] Following the discussion raised by Crystal at the last Board meeting, Luca formulated a proposal on how to extend voting rights in OSM to volunteers of local communities. The proposal is open for comments and feedback at https://github.com/open-source-matters/contact-us/discussions/27 

President

• Crystal attended the Open Source Policy workshop and FOSDEM. She had the opportunity to talk to many people in the Open Source environment.

• Open Website Alliance launched and announced. Lots of interest in the initiative.

Philip Walton left at 18.00 UTC.

• Crystal started a discussion on the actualization of the sponsorship offering to get more attractive to potential sponsors.

• The Board discussed the opportunity to have a meeting along JandBeyond.

• JoomlaDay USA travel is being arranged.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2024/006 - Appoint Crystal Dionysopoulos as the Joomla representative for the Open Website Alliance.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Nadja Lamisch. 
The motion passed with unanimous consent and 1 abstention. Crystal Dionysopoulos abstained.

#2024/007 - The Secretary proposes to adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Crystal Dionysopoulos.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Motions taken offline before this meeting

#2024/005 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Crystal Dionysopoulos.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.