By Philip Walton on 2025-07-11 19:34 in Board of Directors

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

Date: July 10, 2025 at 17:00:00 UTC

Location: Online

Scheduled length: 1 hour

Actual length: 1 hour

Participants

• Vice President — Emmanuel Lemor
• Treasurer — Nadja Lamisch (Proxy: Nadja Lamisch for Sigrid)
• Outreach DC — Angelika Prox Dampha (joined at 19:10)
• Operations DC — Carlos Cámara
• Secretary — Phil Walton

Apologies

• President — Maria Skampoura
• Production DC — Sigrid Gramlinger

Proxies

• Philip Walton for Maria Skampoura
• Nadja Lamisch for Sigrid Gramlinger

Discussion Outline

Treasurer

Updates / Proposed Topics

1. Still problems to log into Wise. Still in contact with the support.
2. Earth Class Mail: emails are transferred to Google Drive. Discussion held regarding deleting old stored files to allow for a change in package and reduced fees.
3. Harbor: status of the problem with Harbor discussed.
4. Request for help in checking all payments against the budget plan, reviewing current usage, identifying areas for change, and categorizing expenses.
5. No payment from CloudAccess in June noted.
6. Meeting with Karen.
7. Bank details included in Brians Shop.
8. Budget article published on the leadership blog.

Talk Topic

1. Harbor: The annual report is overdue. Danielle suggested to do the report.

Outreach DC

Updates / Proposed Topics

1. The T-Shirts and shop discussion is ongoing and causing fatigue.
2. Website for “20 Years Joomla” is in the making (past, schedule of events, future, swag).

Talk Topic

1. Permission requested to contact Rochen to discuss participation in the 20-year activity.
2. Discussion regarding other potential sponsors, and authorized offerings (Link, Visual, Article, short Video, Session of 45 min).
3. Consideration of setting up a new shop ASAP due to concerns about high costs of the current shop.

Motions

1. Adopt the Fourthwall shop built by Cyril for the period of the 20th Joomla Anniversary — unanimously passed. Proposed by Vice President and seconded by Secretary.

Operations DC

Updates / Proposed Topics

1. Seeking high-skilled web maintainers to work on the identity portal with Roland.
2. Seeking a developer to work on the volunteer portal with Roland.
3. Magazine site finally in Joomla! 5.

Vice President

Talk Topic

1. Mini-Orange and the conflicting licensing issue.
2. Commission amount for Joomla Shop (15% agreed).

Secretary

Updates / Proposed Topics

1. All reports published to date, registry updated, and Semi-Annual Meeting published.
2. Election process started — Call for Manifestos (Group 1 Elections 2025).
3. Nadja asked to stay for one more term and suggestion made to advertise heavily for an assistant to facilitate knowledge transfer.

Motions

1. Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting. Proposed by Phil Walton, Seconded by Nadja Lamisch.

Motions Taken During This Meeting

#2025/18 — Vice President proposed to adopt the Fourthwall shop built by Cyril for the period of the 20th Joomla Anniversary.
Proposed by Emmanuel Lemor. Seconded by Philip Walton.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

#2025/19 — The Secretary proposes to adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Phil Walton. Seconded by Nadja Lamisch.
The motion passed with unanimous consent.