By Philip Walton on 2025-05-29 08:41 in Board of Directors

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

Date: May 29, 2025

Time: 17:00 UTC

Total time of meeting:  65 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

 Updates/Proposed Topics:

• Informed D&O to change the address. Waiting for the answer
• From cloudaccess $273.09 arrived
• Harbor fee is paid. We should be able to continue with the form

Production Department

Updates/Proposed Topics:

• Joomla! 5.3.1 released
• Joomla! 5.4.0 Alpha 1 released - with automated updates
• Joomla! 6.0.0 Alpha 1 released
• A big, big thank you to everybody involved and specially to Benjamin who gave extended release training/support. Up to 20 people joined the release party!

Talk Topic:

Budget almost finished - still everybody planning a budget for a sprint. Or do we discuss at the next meeting with just the budget?

Outreach Department

Updates/Proposed Topics:

• Working on the 20 years
• New Social Media Team structure in the making

Operations Department

• Working on the procedure to create Sandbox sites respecting privacy and in the easiest way possible.
• Discussing how we could push forward JED4
• I feel the Community Websites group is coming to shape and I need a leader for the team. Almost every member is a team leader so I need to look for people outside the team.

Vice President

Talk Topic:

• Alexandre has quit Mattermost, Telegram etc due to bullying.
• Official request for consideration by Daniel (TemplateJoomla)
• Businesses around Joomla newsletter / effort —> discuss with Outreach Dept.

Secretary

Talk Topic:

This was brought up in the leadership channel by Viviana
https://unite.un.org/news/osi-first-endorse-united-nations-open-source-principles
https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/the-drupal-association-endorses-the-united-nations-open-source-principles
And the question raise as to whether we should write an endorsement.

Motions:

That OSM formally endorses the UN Open Source Principles and signs up
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/GvF3q-LsyL-OZgX4G0r2pQS8Ju3erZ-zmmkCWgAkiDc/ 
Proposed Philip Walton Seconded Emmanuel Lemor

Motion passed 

President

Updates/Proposed Topics: 

• Met with Venable, discussed Indemnification, Company’s Good Standing, and an Idea about the OSM Advisory Board to include past Presidents. 
• The Capital Team has been revived. 
• Financial review & reports.
• Sponsors (Scala, Google, and more.) 

 

Talk Topic: 

• Legal and Compliance department in Joomla, revive it? 
• Reverse Joomla’s decline, anyone can help.
• We need an Ombudsman.

Other Business

Carlos has submitted a session to JoomlaDay ES about: Opening Keynote community-focused talk about the present and future of Joomla! Exploring the software’s new features, as well as new ways to get involved in the community.

[President] Joomla is in the process of officially becoming a member of the Eclipse Foundation Open Regulatory Compliance group. Need to sign the documents.

Motions: 
Motions taken during this meeting
#2025/014 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Phil Walton, Seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

#2025/015 -That OSM formally endorses the UN Open Source Principles and signs up
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/GvF3q-LsyL-OZgX4G0r2pQS8Ju3erZ-zmmkCWgAkiDc/
Proposed by Philip Walton, Seconded by Emmanuel Lemor
The motion passed with unanimous consent.