By Angie Radtke on 2026-01-11 17:15 in Board of Directors

Date: 08. January 2026
Time: 19:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 2 hour 15 minutes
Participants:Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor, Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu, Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger, Outreach DC - Richard Gosler, Secretary - Angie Radtke,
Apologies: President - vacant, Operations DC - vacant

Discussion outline

Treasurer:

• Handover has started, but it is not completed yet. The new treasurer will take over the duties of the previous treasurer and will continue to be supported by weekly meetings. Nadia Lamisch currently l assistant
• Access to the necessary systems is required to continue the ongoing transition process and will be initiated.
• The responsibilities and framework conditions of the accounts must be clarified.
• The treasurer reports on financial transactions

Production Department

• 2nd successful automated Update Releases for Joomla 5.4.2 and 6.0.2 (Security releases).
• Joomla 6.1 Alpha 2 released. Feature freeze is on Feb 17, 2026
• CloudAccess: they have solved some of the issues we asked them to change. (Launch.joomla.com)
• New CMS Release Team Lead is Stefan Wendhausen. Thank you, Benjamin Trenkle for the time and effort as team lead!
• Pizza, Bugs and Fun on Friday Jan. 30 AND Saturday Jan 31, 2026. The idea is to attract more agencies on Friday who can take part during work time. Reimbursement only with: form, photos of people eating pizza, proof of active participation. Security measures due to past abuse.
• Sponsoring: Need for an overview of sponsors, Proposed additional meeting early next week, Capital Team participation required.

Outreach Department

• Website project: Working group under the marketing team to be established.
• Re-organisation of social media to make it a subteam to marketing.

Operations Department

Nothing major to report.

Vice President

• Report on which projects the previous President initiated and which of these need to be continued: Review of pending tasks completed; no open tasks initiated by the previous President were found.
• Emmanuel Lemor will be attending Fossdem end of the month

Secretary

• Return to normal election cycle / February 1st start date for position announcements
  Incumbent intentions Sigrid Gramlinger: Running for another Production term
• We discussed the role of the Ombudsman and are reviewing how to address the resulting issues under law. The topic requires ongoing consideration and formal decisions in the future.
• The hourly rate for American lawyers is very high, so we will see if we can find a cheaper solution.
• We discussed if we should  fill all leadership positions with dual leadership? Due to the complex election process, we decided against it and refer to the assistant role instead

President 

vacant

Motions taken during this meeting

• #2026/001 Establish a working group for the new Joomla website. Proposed by Emmanuel Lemor. Seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.
• #2026/002 The social media team to become a sub-team to the marketing team. Proposed by Richard Gosler. Seconded by Emmanuel Lemor 
  The motion passed with unanimous consent
• #2026/003  The meeting was adjourned by unanimous consent.
  Proposed by Angie Radtke. Seconded by Emmanuel Lemor