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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - March 07, 2024

By Luca Marzo on 2024-04-04 18:28 in Board of Directors

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

Date: March 07, 2024
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 55 minutes

Attendees:

Crystal Dionysopoulos (President), Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Louise Hawkins (Director), Carlos Camara (Elected Director).

Apologies:

Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer).

Proxies:

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Discussion outline

Treasurer

  • Nadja is still in touch with the Citibank account manager to check the accesses.

  • Nadja shared the bank balances as of today.

  • Nadja needs to receive access to GitHub Sponsors and other services in use.

  • Pizza, Bugs and Fun reimbursements have been duly processed and paid.

Production Department

  • [Release Managers] Martina Scholz and Benjamin Trenkle are the Joomla 5.1 Release Leaders, as Luca Racchetti offered his position. First 5.1 Beta with TUF was released. Generally 5.1 is now in the feature freeze state. With TUF we will have signed releases from now on.

  • [Greetings] Sigrid proposed to prepare a thank you message or a small recognition to Release Leaders and Team Leads at the end of their terms.

  • [Zapier] Received a request on GitHub to sponsor the Zapier app for Joomla.

  • [GAAD] Sigrid suggested participating in the Global Accessibility Awareness Day - accessibility.day. 

  • [Teams] Some topics are overlapping between the Accessibility and Experience Teams. Furthermore the Accessibility Team is without a Team Leader for months. The Department is considering the opportunity to combine the two teams. The Board discussed the matter and decided to keep the two teams as independent as of now, while looking for a new Team Leader for the Accessibility Team.

  • [JX Team] Jonathan is working on a summary and RFC to integrate userback into Joomla.

Outreach Department

  • [Holopin] Following our discussions last week, Louise has amended the designs and shared them with the Board.

  • [Marketing Team] The team is keen to update joomla.org and the newest member Alexander presented a fabulous design at the last meeting, he is currently working to progress this. We also have a possible new member Angelika who contacted Louise directly via Mattermost, she also has social media management experience so she may want to help there as well.

  • [CMS Critic Awards] Joomla won two awards! Louise contacted the organizers to claim our official badges as per their email. There is also the opportunity for some additional promotion on their website. Louise has forwarded the information to Tom who will discuss who's doing what at the next marketing meeting. Also added badges to the folder if anyone wants to use them.

  • [Social Media] Currently working on new and revised content with a view to getting a few weeks scheduled in advance. This includes promoting Mattermost as Louise plans to try and recruit internally.

  • [Teams] Louise to plan regular meetings with team leaders to let them work more together.

  • [Polls] No progress has been made on the survey for those blocked on Joomla 3.

  • [Situation Analysis] Work is in progress.

Operations Department

  • Carlos to take over the role from Harald.

Vice President

  • Guide article for helping new users will be ready for the next meeting.

  • Academy walk-through with Luca tomorrow.

  • Important lessons on website handover will be condensed into a magazine article.

Secretary

President

  • Joomla has been invited to attend a collaborative session at DrupalCon Portland.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2024/012 - Allow Carlos Camara, elected Director, to take over the role of Operations Department Coordinator with immediate effect. 
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Sigrid Grimlinger
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

#2024/013 - 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

#2024/011 - Approve and publish the Board Meeting Minutes.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Crystal Dionysopoulos.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.