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OSM Inc. Board Meeting October 30, 2025

By Bruce Scherzinger on 2025-11-30 00:00 in Board of Directors

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

Date: October 30, 2025         Time started at: 18:20 UTC

Total time of meeting: 100 minutes

Attendees:

Maria Skampoura (President), Emmanuel Lemor (Vice President), Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Sigrid Gramlinger (Production DC), Richard Gosler (Outreach DC), Carlos Cámara (Operations DC)

Discussion outline

Treasurer

  • The President initiated the transfer of the Wise Business account’s primary administrative role to the Treasurer. The transfer is pending due to technical difficulties; the Treasurer will solve with the support; the President will assist if needed.

  • Canceling Harbor is in progress. Secretary wrote an email because there was no closure button in the account. She already confirmed the cancellation via email.

  • New Lawyer: We have to compare it with Venable. 

  • Still the problem in Relay. Secretary asked Accountant for help.

  • Created a new folder for the documents from Harbor for the Joomla foundation.

  • The Treasurer asked for President assistance with PayPal account Administrative setup. The update is in progress.

  • We discussed that the team of Joomladay DACH offered to organise a World Conference.

  • Discussion about closing the CITI accounts? There were no transactions for a long time. (see motion)

  • Semi-annual meeting: planned for November 27, 2025.

Production Department

  • We already have 23 language packs for 6.0, and 54 languages for 5.4.

  • Joomla 6.0 and 5.4 are very stable, we have only small bug fixes.

  • First features merged into Joomla 6.1.

  • First talks about 6.2 release managers.

  • We discussed voting procedures especially for email motions. Sigrid offered to create a draft for a policy to clarify the procedure, but not changing the bylaws.

Outreach Department

  • Propose a workshop for officers, team leaders and other key stakeholders to discuss the branding and positioning of Joomla along with a wider remit of team building to improve leadership and communications between departments and individuals within the project so we can all be more effective. This could be incorporated as part of the proposed Outreach Sprint or a standalone activity.

Operations Department

  • Operations DC requested that the President resign. The Board discussed the request; no motion was made and no action was taken.

Operations DC left the meeting 19.45 UTC due to a family issue.

Vice President

  • The 20 years of Joomla Anniversary shop needs to be sunset soon but for that we need a replacement for the current ‘old’ shop. We need to make an RFP for a replacement to our  ‘old’ shop as per our By-Laws.

President

  • The President transferred administrative access of the Wise account to the Treasurer. Due to technical reasons the Treasurer currently cannot accept the transfer. The President offered assistance.

  • Joomla is a Digital Public Good, Joomla to be displayed at the DPG registry https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/joomla-joomla-content-management-system.

  • The President applied at the Sovereign Tech Fund for $500,000 to improve Joomla’s accessibility. 

Motions taken during this meeting

#2025/028 - The Joomladay DACH is allowed to organise a world conference in combination with the Joomladay DACH next year in Berlin.
Proposed by Nadja Lamisch seconded by Carlos Cámara
Sigrid and Nadja abstain because of a conflict of interest.
Motion passed unanimously 

#2025/029 - A survey from the Joomladay DACH team to check in advance whether enough people are interested in a world conference is agreed by the board and can be sent out.
Proposed by Nadja Lamisch, seconded by Carlos Cámara
Sigrid and Nadja abstain because of a conflict of interest.
Motion passed unanimously 

#2025/030 - The board will bring special support to the Joomladay DACH team with organization, especially in the area of marketing. 
Proposed by Nadja Lamisch, seconded by Carlos Cámara
Sigrid and Nadja abstain because of a conflict of interest.
Motion passed unanimously 

#2025/031 - The board decides to close the Citi accounts. Danielle Hlatky will be asked to close the accounts.
Proposed by Nadja Lamisch seconded by Carlos Cámara
Motion passed unanimously

#2025/032 - Adjourn the meeting.
Proposed by Maria Skampoura, seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger
Motion passed unanimously

Minutes prepared by: Sigrid Gramlinger (Production DC)