OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - October 03, 2024
By Luca Marzo on 2024-10-03 18:26 in Board of Directors
Open Source Matters, Inc.
Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting
Date: October 03, 2024
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 30 minutes
Attendees:
Crystal Dionysopoulos (President), Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Director).
Apologies:
Carlos Camara (Director).
Proxies:
Sigrid Gramlinger served as proxy for Carlos Camara.
Discussion outline
Treasurer
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The 990 form is now ready and Danielle is starting the Char500 process.
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Nadja shared the income from the eLTS for September.
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Trademark registration renewal for the Philippines has been paid.
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Bookkeeper invoice paid.
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Nadja is chasing a sponsor for missing payments.
Angelika Prox-Dampha joined the meeting at 17.15 UTC.
Production Department
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Joomla 5.2.0-RC1 released, tests are needed.
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Joomla 5.3: as there are no Release Leaders yet for Joomla 5.3, the CMS Maintenance Team will take over the release management responsibilities for the 5.3 version.
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Joomla Help: We will move the Joomla help files from the Mediawiki to the CMS itself, host them on GitHub, have them as markdown, translating them with Crowdin, and automate screenshots.
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Docs: For other documentation like tutorials, the docs team will start at first with an analysis of the current structure, define target groups and have a new structure. Documentation will be developed in English-only mode at the beginning and the team is looking to work on automated translations through AI.
Outreach Department
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The Marketing Team is working on updating the content of the website. We tried to change links going to Documentation 3.x to 5.x.
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The Marketing Team has held some update sprints and plans more, next on wednesday.
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Angelika is looking into implementing a CMP for the cookie compliance for the joomla.org websites.
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Angelika proposed to send some Joomla representatives to CloudFest to promote the project and find new potential sponsors.
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Angelika urged to restart the Digital Public Good application process.
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The Board discussed some extensions developers that are dropping out of the Joomla market. A solution would be to support crowdfunding campaigns to let them stay relevant in the ecosystem.
Operations Department
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Lots of issues with mod_security after infrastructure change. All reported issues were solved. Mostly we had to request IP from our affected volunteers to remove the block
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Updated documentation for onboarding process for the Password vault
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Created sandbox/staging area for OSM site update
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Updated our Privacy Policy with what I could remember:
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Updated date
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Included 5.joomla.org
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Replaced our CDN provider with CloudFlare
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Vice President
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Meeting with Codort to find a potential sponsorship.
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Philip found multiple potential sponsors for the Joomla Academy project.
Secretary
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[Elections] As of today, we’ve received no nominations/manifestos for the Vice President role. The call for manifestos is still open.
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[Grants] A 9000 USD grant has been applied to our AWS account through the AWS Credit for Open Source initiative.
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[Sponsors] We’ve received an inquiry from a potential sponsor. Forwarded all the details to the President, Vice President and Treasurer to proceed with the deal.
President
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No major updates.
Other business
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The new joomla.org redesign is progressing well. Updates will be provided periodically. The Austria Community is proudly providing help with the initiative.
Motions taken during this meeting
#2024/034 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Nadja Lamisch.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.