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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - November 14, 2024

By Luca Marzo on 2024-11-14 19:19 in Board of Directors

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

Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 18:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 20 minutes

Attendees:

Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Director), Carlos Camara (Director).

Apologies:

Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer).

Proxies:

Luca Marzo served as proxy for Nadja Lamisch.

Discussion outline

Treasurer

  • Donation from Web-eau $296.53

  • Reports are in the folder.

  • JoomlaDay Brazil has been paid.

  • Nadja shared the ELTS revenue with the Board.

  • CSC Annual Renewal is done

  • Meeting with Karen yesterday was very short. Everything is fine and she had no questions

Production Department

  • Joomla 5.2.1 successfully released. It was only a security release, not changes. The next regular release is on Nov 26.

  • Manual.joomla.org is not very well ranked in search engines. We need to check some SEO parameters to make it more visible.

Outreach Department

  • Angelika will get in touch with the ads provider to finetune the ads served on joomla.org websites.

Operations Department

  • New list of domains added to internal.joomla.org

  • Carlos proposed to buy some domain names to protect current initiatives.

  • Carlos proposed to update and review the Board Policy regarding organization tools.

  • The Operations DC will take over the responsibility over user onboarding.

Vice President

  • There is a possibility to certify the Joomla TUF for compliance. The initiative might be cofunded. 

  • George Wilson asked to decide whether to keep or remove certain websites of the Joomla.org galaxy of websites. The Board discussed the matter. 

  • Philip shared some ideas on how to restart the Capital Team.

Philip Walton left the meeting 19.05 UTC

Secretary

  • [Elections] President Elections are scheduled to start in January as part of Group 2 Elections. In the meantime, we need to cover the responsibilities of the resigning president.

  • The next Semi-Annual Members Meeting will be held on December 12, 2024.

President

  • Crystal stepped down as president of Open Source Matters. In the interim, Philip Walton stepped up to fill the main responsibilities, including managing the President’s correspondence.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2024/037 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger
The motion passed with unanimous consent.