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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - March 06, 2025

By Philip Walton on 2025-03-06 15:10 in Board of Directors

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

Date: March 06, 2025

Time: 18:00 UTC ended 19:09 UTC

Total time of meeting:  70 minutes

Attendees: Philip Walton (Secretary), Carlos Cámara (Director), Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Sigrid Gramlinger (PD Coordinator), Maria Skampoura (President)

Discussion outline

Treasurer

  • Wise: we need to re-autorisate. And we have to change the ownership to Maria

  • Skype, renewal end of march

  • Contracts PBF Setup the three contracts 

  • Inquiry Regarding Joomla Partnership. - Production is going to check

  • Again for 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. 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. 

  • Earthclassmail: check if re-authorisation is done.

  • Shared folder for  budget plan 2024/2025 and Reports

  • ScalaHosting in our homepage in the Our Sponsors & Partners section, They have not renewed so remove them

  • PBF reimbursements:  almost all are paid

 

Production Department

  • Joomla 5.3.0-beta2 successful released

  • PBF -  there is a recap on Thursday just before the board meeting. Thanks to everybody involved!

  • Security release will be on March 11.
    https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5921-upcoming-security-release-on-march-11th.html 

  • GSoC is for 2025 for Joomla approved. So after three years, we are back! We are waiting for details to come in.

  • We have currently only 1000 users for Mattermost. We will check, if and how we can increase the number. 

  • Templatejoomla.com we discussed an integration in the PD meeting. Collecting Pros and Cons.

 

Outreach Department


As JD USA sponsor - OSM has 6 virtual and 2 in-person tickets - we are going to share them.

  • The Outreach Department is heavily understaffed. Calls for Volunteers in JCM and Social Media have not solved the problem. Further issues: 

  • What should happen with inactive teams? Delete or maintain and keep searching volunteers?
    - Certification Team
    - SEO Team
    - Educational Outreach
    - Global Events Fund Working Group (Luca is the only member)
    - Joomla Translation Program Team (JTP)

 

Operations Department

  • Opened nominations for JED Team leader

  • First meeting for Community Sites Team

  • Opened nominations for Community Sites Team leader

  • What’s the status of the Advisory Board

 

Secretary

  • Secretary results posted

  • Vice President election ballots sent out

  • Education added to J.org, GSoC and J Academy as dropdowns

 

Carlos Camara left at 18:50

Any other business

Motions taken during this meeting

#2025/006 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.

Proposed by Philip Walton Seconded by Nadja Lamisch

The motion passed with unanimous consent.