By Sigrid Gramlinger on 2025-11-11 17:34 in Board of Directors

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

Date: August 21, 2025

Time: 17:00 UTC
Scheduled length: 1 hour

Attendees:

President - Maria Skampoura

Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor

Treasurer - Nadja Lamisch

Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger

Outreach DC - Angelika Prox Dampha
Secretary - Phil Walton

 

Apologies:

Operations DC - Carlos Cámara

Discussion outline

Treasurer

• Danielle is ready with the tax documents and will send the documents for signing the next days

• Nadja will prepare an article to search an assistant for treasurer and secretary to get into the role step by step

Production Department

• Joomla Versions 5.3.3 (bug fixes), 5.4.0 Beta1, 6.0.0 Beta1 successfully released - Thanks to everybody involved!!!

• In the release notes, we have a new section “Test contributions” (thanks to Martina Scholz) where we now also show testers and therefore show them appreciation.

Outreach Department

• A big thank you for all who helped to make the 20 years Joomla celebration a success.

• Remark: Having three releases the same day is not ideal for marketing / social media. It would be better to spread it to have more reactions over time than one super reaction on one day. The releases are always a highlight in comments and forwarding. 

Vice President

• Joomla Academy’s next cycle/future… 

• When are we, if we are, closing the Foundation?

• When are we, if we are, moving OSM from NY to UK or other European location?

Secretary

• Likewise from Nadja, article for assistance

• Elections for VP and Treasurer finished and both elected, congratulations

• Will be doing the elections for the Outreach Departments over the weekend to run for a week

President

Updates:
Digital Public Good application submitted 19 August 2025.
Indonesia trademarks renewed until 27 August 2035. Canada and Australia renewals pending.

Talk Topics:
President requested approval to attend the Open Source Congress 2025  (16–17 September).
President to submit Sovereign Tech Fund application and requested archived information from OSM.
Sponsors contacted and Capital Team revival in process.
Law firm costs market research initiated per Board request.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2025/022 - Approve the Meeting Minutes and adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Phil Walton, Seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger
The motion passed with unanimous consent.

 

Minutes prepared by: Sigrid Gramlinger (Production DC, November 8th, 2025)