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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - October 17, 2024

By Philip Walton on 2024-10-17 14:00 in Board of Directors

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

Date: October 17, 2024

Time: 17:00 UTC

Total time of meeting: 1 hour 20 minutes

Attendees:

Crystal Dionysopoulos (President), Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Carlos Camara (Director).

Apologies:

 Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Angelika Prox-Dampha (Director).

Proxies:

Luca Marzo served as proxy for Nadja Lamisch.

Carlos Camara served as proxy for Sigrid Gramlinger.

Discussion outline

Treasurer

  • Cloudflare subscription has been canceled due to a typo in the registration.

  • Nadja shared the up to date financial reports with the Board.

  • There have been some requests for events approval which took longer than expected. Philip confirmed that the pending events were processed.

  • Nadja reported that some contents on the OSM website are out of date. Resources updates have been stopped since there is a major upgrade ongoing on the website. 

  • Nadja suggested reinstating reports to update the community on the ongoing Board actions.

Production Department

  • Joomla 5.2.0 and 4.4.9 have been released successfully! Thanks to everybody involved!

  • Joomla 4.4 will only get security updates from now until October 2025.
    As the update from Joomla 4 to Joomla 5 is normally an easy update, according to the Security Team, there is no ELTS necessary.

  • The Bug Squad Team has a new team lead: Martin Kopp. Thank you Hannes Papenberg for your commitment.

  • The Documentation Team has team lead elections running. The results will be published next week.

Outreach Department

  • Angelika reported some difficulties accessing websites’ administration due to the 2FA authentication. Proposal is to use the vault as the second authentication factor whenever possible so that handover is easier.

  • Following the difficulties reported by the Brazil event organizer, Angelika suggested revising and eventually clarify the event organization materials and information to support event organizers.

  • Angelika started analyzing the Google Analytics data.

  • We can be very proud that Joomla is standing strong among competitors who all are having commercial support and funding. This is owed to the hard work of all the volunteers. So far marketing messages have been a lot about “how great we are”.  For the future Angelika would like to get all the makers and shakers to also have a look from the perspective of the end customer or company i.e. focus marketing messages on what problems are solved, what benefits provided and work on more interaction with the readers, especially on the Social Media Platforms.

Operations Department

  • Carlos proposed to charge a fee for the use of the Joomla name on domains and other areas. The Board discussed the proposal.

  • Carlos proposed to include Joomla Events sponsors in our events page.

Vice President

  • Written to all who pledged money at DACH, and paid my own Gold pledge to JandBeyond who are collecting the money in one place and will forward to OSM when requested

Secretary

  • [Trademark] Use of the trademark in the Philippines has been demonstrated. Next renewal is scheduled for 2028.

  • [Filings] Filing of CHAR500 - Annual Filing for Charitable Organizations was due on October 16, 2024. 

  • [Filings] Filing of Form 1120 - U.S. Corporation Income Tax was due on October 16, 2024

President

Motions taken during this meeting

#2024/035 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.

Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Philip Walton.

The motion passed with unanimous consent.