By Philip Walton on 2025-03-20 15:17 in Board of Directors

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

Date: March 20, 2025

Time: 18:00 UTC

Total time of meeting:  70 minutes

Attendees:

• President - Maria Skampoura
• Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
• Treasurer - Nadja Lamisch
• Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
• Outreach DC - Angelika Prox Dampha
• Operations DC - Carlos Cámara
• Secretary - Phil Walton 

Apologies: None

Proxies: None

Discussion outline

Treasurer

• Meeting with Karen and Maria last week

• PBF reimbursements paid. - In the meeting we agreed that the wise would be paid in full and if by PayPal then costs are paid by the recipient

• Still try to authorize earth class mail

• Loan in the books. OSM loan some money for the setup cost of the foundation some years ago.

• How can we explain that the reimbursement should be with Wise?
  
  

Production Department

• Joomla 5.3.0-beta3 was released - Thanks for the work!

• First successful “Automatic Core Update” at the Joomlacamp. Thanks to everybody involved! We will have a motion in the PD about in which version we will include this feature - in 5.4 or 6.0.

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students are coming in. The teams and maintainers were overwhelmed with the requests for moderation and feedback. We are trying to improve with better communication.

Outreach Department

• On Joomla Camp Germany 2 people showed interest in volunteering in Data Analysis / Google Analytics, one already signed up with Mattermost

• Cloudfest: OVH might be interested in sponsoring a PBF, hope to get them on board with our 20 Years

• Cloudfest: Projects in Hackathon are “Sponsors only”. So the last Joomla project was 2 years back. Any appearance in the context with Cloudfest or Cloudfest mails must be paid for. Should we put this in next years budget? 

• Learnings from Cloudfest: Idea: intensify collaboration with Hosting Providers. 

• They could provide Data on how many installations use Joomla and which version. 

• I would like to try to get more Providers to offer Joomla Hosting packages. Also I have seen that some providers still have packages that offer old Joomla versions in autoinstall.

• There are providers of Hosting Management Software such as Plesk or CPanel. They could be contacted to put automatic Joomla packages in their product. 

• Plan: identify the key people at above companies and contact them (Mail)

• Joomla Hosting packages and auto install packages will give us more (free) visibility. 

• Please leave your comments.

• The joomla.org website content is being reworked. The Marketing Team has been on it for about a year now. We would need more people.

• Marketing & Social Media Team: Still nobody showed interest in participation or TL, 

• TL elections for Marketing are due. The current TL plans to resign.

Operations Department

• Mark Fleeson re-elected as JED Team Leader

 

Vice President

• Met with Carlos & Phil to get setup and transfer. (Thanks to both)

• Would like to understand OSM Finances situation.

• Shepherd (GT) update 

 

Secretary

Updates/Proposed Topics:

• Attended OFE CRA (Cyber Regulation Amelioration / EU FOSS Policy)

• Met with Carlos and Emmanuel to do hand overs. I will have to read through everything over the next few weeks to come up to speed.

• Met with Shivam in the week to liaise over the GSoC and J Academy student intake.

• Suggestion that we pay 500 Euro for the Offer for a baseline inventory report (overview) Typo 3 will pay 1000 and Drupal 1000

 

Motions:

• Agree to pay 500 Euros towards the cost of the OWA baseline report (2500 Euros total cost to OWA) on the EU standardisation Working groups that affect OWA.
  Proposed by Philip Walton seconded Maria Skampoura
  Motion passed unanimously

 

President

Updates/Proposed Topics:

• Handover details, President.

• Situation in Joomla, new narrative: leaders assume responsibility. 

• The purpose of the Board, how Joomla is organised, moving forward with account handover, financials,  check financials with the Treasurer and VP. 

• Need to post all previous minutes.

• The Outreach department needs fixing.

• Sponsorships. Reviving the Capital Team.

• Association management company (could this be an option?)

• Online Learning resources shared with the Board; soon to follow GDPR and accessibility training.

• OSI - Open source AI definition article.

• Agenda header link needs fixing  (Mattermost Board channel (2023.)) 

Other Business

Motions taken during this meeting 

#2025/007 - Agree to pay 500 Euros towards the cost of the OWA baseline report (2500 Euros total cost to OWA) on the EU standardisation Working groups that affect OWA.
Proposed by Philip Walton seconded Maria Skampoura
Motion passed unanimously 

#2025/008 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Phil Walton, Seconded by Nadja Lamisch 
The motion passed with unanimous consent.