By Angie Radtke on 2026-03-10 10:59 in Board of Directors

Date: 05 March 2026  
Time: 20:00 UTC  
Total time of meeting: 1 hours 52 minutes

Attendees:

Vice President Emmanuel Lemor, Treasurer Ufuk Avcu, Production DC Sigrid Gramlinger, Outreach DC Richard Gosler, Operations DC Carlos Camera , Secretary Angie Radtke
Guest: New Secretary Bruce Scherzinger

Treasurer

• There are still outstanding payments to the lawyers; we are waiting for the corrected invoice.
•  Emmanuel Lemor will be registered as a user with Relay Financial. Relay Financial is a financial platform that enables companies and organizations to conduct online banking, payment processing, and financial management.
•  We have planned a meeting that will focus solely on our financial situation. 
• JWC Contract was signed by Emmanuel Lemor

Production Department

•  Martin Kopp and Charvi Merha were elected as release managers for Joomla 6.2. Thank you for your commitment and dedication. 
• There was a post-release process meeting due to an emergency release because of the Firefox bug. It was decided to stay with the normal release cycle.
•  The feature list from the J8 sprint is now public: https://developer.joomla.org/news/1021-joomla-8-sprint-the-feature-list.html
•  New GitHub issue templates and feature request workflow on GitHub have been introduced. Improvements are being evaluated. https://developer.joomla.org/news/1023-a-new-sustainable-workflow-for-managing-feature-requests-in-joomla.html

Outreach Department

•  Unfortunately, contact with a sponsor was unsuccessful.

Operations Department

• The community would like to have the translation in Google Meet—unfortunately, this is not possible with our non-profit account from Google.
•  Carlos should start his role immediately
  #2026/009 Motion Proposed by Sigrid Gramlinger, seconded by Emmanuel Lemor
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Secretary

• The board should review the current guidelines on unauthorized use of the Joomla!”trademark in third-party domain names and consider how we should deal with this in the future.
• Bruce Scherzinger and Emmanuel Lemor want to finalize the community guidelines and then present them to the community.
• Bruce Scherzinger will take over all of Angie Radtkes' secretarial duties as soon as possible. 
• The Full Board will immediately review the Articles of Association with regard to the eligibility requirements for Executive Board members. The idea: 9 months of membership or 10 recommendations
•  Due to the lack of response from the presidential candidate after multiple attempts, the board decided to restart the election cycle for the presidency. The candidate may reapply if they wish.
  #2026/010 Motion Proposed by Richard Gosler, seconded Sigrid Gramlinger
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.*

Joomla World Conference

• Tickets must also be purchased for board members
• In the past, we had an event travel program for active members. Visa invitation letters available through German association
• The production teams are starting to plan sprints: The costs should be covered by the team budgets for 2025/26 and 2026/27 (at least for travel and part of the hotel costs).
• We could offer discounts to active members. The JWC will create discount codes and vouchers that could be used. The costs for the vouchers must be covered by OSM.

Motions taken during this meeting

• #2026/009 Carlos should start his role immediately.
  Motion Proposed by Sigrid Gramlinger, seconded by Emmanuel Lemor
  The motion passed with unanimous consent
  
  
• #2026/010 Due to the lack of response from the presidential candidate after multiple attempts, the board decided to restart the election cycle for the presidency. The candidate may reapply if they wish.
  Motion Proposed by Richard Gosler, seconded Sigrid Gramlinger
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.
  
  
• 2026/011 The Board Meeting is adjourned at 21:52 CET.
  Proposed by Emmanuel Lemor. Seconded by: Richard Gosler.
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.