By Philip Walton on 2025-02-20 14:59 in Board of Directors

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

Date: February 20, 2025

Time: 18:00 UTC

Total time of meeting:  60 minutes

 

Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Sigrid Gramlinger (Production DC), Carlos Cámara (Operations DC), Angelika Prox Dampha (Outreach DC)

Apologies: Nadja Lamisch

Proxies: Sigrid Gramlinger for Nadja

 

 Discussion outline

Treasurer

• Transferred some money from citi checked account to citi IMMA. I transferred $20000.-

• We got $2,316.60 from  FORENING JOOMLA I NORGE because they were closing down Joomla Norge

• Reimbursement for Joomladay USA is paid

• Sponsor Skynet Technologies. Luca forwarded an email that they are interested in being a partner and sponsoring. They are providing a tool for accessibility. Option to be checked: community sponsor package would be great.
  To be discussed further with Accessability

• Quickbooks: Quickbooks is our tool for books. We have the highest plan at the moment and Danielle mentioned that they will increase the fee and we will pay ~ $1000.-. She suggested to step down from the plan. I discussed this with Karen last week in our meeting. The reason why we need the highest plan is the “classes”. Karen mentioned that she had this discussion with the former treasurer too. But the board always decided that we need the classes. So if we still want to use the classes we have to pay the new, high fee.
  To be discussed further 

• Earthclass mail: Luca increased my user level. But I am not the manager of the two “users” that need re-authorisation, so I cannot do it. If we can change the owner I can try to re-authorisate it.  

• PBF contracts: I still  have no rights to copy and change the Banner Sponsor contracts.

 

Production Department

• The Joomla security releases 5.2.4 and 4.4.11 were successfully released.

• Joomla 5.3.0-beta1 was released, this means feature freeze

• Joomla 5.4 Release Managers were onboarded. Joomla 6 planning is going forward. 

• Pizza, Bugs and Fun on Feb 22, 2025 - very well organised

Outreach Department

• Updates/Proposed Topics:

• Pizza, Bugs and Fun for Feb.22, 2025 - very well organized

• JCM is out, very well and independently organized

• Formation of a joint Team for 20 years Joomla? Who should be in there?

• Reworking the website - we need to build a team across various departments

• Social Media - Alison left
  The PW and account for FB was handed over, she logged out of Adobe (to clarify about subscription)
  The board acknowledged her huge contribution to Joomla.

• There is still no Team Lead in Social Media

• Facebook and Mastodon need a Volunteer (currently Outreacch-DC has to cover for these activities)

• Access to the relevant info “what to post” is still confusing for me. Workflow concept?

• Searching for “who has access” or is responsible or “where is a specific file” so far a major time waste factor has improved

• Idea: can we issue something like a “Certificate of Appreciation" and or a document like a “detailed employment reference” that people could use if seeking employment

• A new volunteer for Wikipedia editing is coming

• Team Leader for various teams - I am checking who is and who is not active, who can be remotivated. Details by the end of the month.

 

Vice President

• Progress with the J Academy mentors has meant we are moving towards making the registration public. We have decided to NOT use mattermost for the majority of the students but instead use GitHub which will allow a more integrated approach to the coding needed, although a steep learning curve for some of us.

• Represented OWA at the CRA and EU legislation meeting that is every Tuesday 16:00 UTC

• Interesting to see how the discussion is going.

 

Motions taken during this meeting

 

 

#2025/004 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.

Proposed by Philip Walton Seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger

The motion passed with unanimous consent.