By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-05-14 22:51 in Board of Directors

Date: 2026-04-02
Start Time: 18:00 UTC
End Time: 19:35 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 35 minutes

Attendees:

• President - (vacant)
• Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
• Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu
• Operations DC - Carlos Cámara
• Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
• Outreach DC - Richard Gosler
• Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

Apologies:

None

Proxies:

None

Discussion Synopsis

Treasurer

• Processed some reimbursements.
• Academy funding: This is currently in progress on my side. I am in contact with Viviana and Nadja to clarify the remaining points regarding the formal setup, required documentation, and next steps. Once these points are resolved, we should hopefully be in a position to move forward and receive the funds soon.

Production Department

• Security and bug fix releases for Joomla 6.0.4 and 5.4.4.
• It was the last planned 6.0 release - big thank you to Phil Walton and Gary Barclay as release managers!
• Joomla 6.1 Release Candidate was released. Please test!
• STF - Application discussion
  • Current status
  • How to proceed?
  • Do we need more time?
• Skilldisplay.eu Cooperation for micro credentials for educational institutions.
  We need to decide if we want to be officially listed as Joomla CMS as Skilldisplay. Typo3 has the complete certification. Drupal is starting. The listing itself will not cost anything.
  Sigrid has a Joomla workshop at a college in Vienna in May 2026 and will use the system for the preparation. She will talk to the documentation team and certification team in the next 2 weeks. The board should decide afterwards.

Outreach Department

• Update on preparations for the Outreach Sprint
  • Booked accommodation in Paris
  • 10 people
  • Plane.so being used for PM

Operations Department

• George told me how to make the changes to the header and footer or our properties and I made the update and documented it in the internal documentation.
• We received a copyright infringement email from Google pointing to a forum message. Olaf quickly removed the problematic text and we appealed to Google with the update.
• Joomla.org is now on Joomla! 6. Thanks to Cyril!!!
• Brian posted a Joomla! Supporters Club idea in the Capital Team.
  • Carlos likes this idea.
  • Emmanuel has a problem with the idea because it doesn’t take into account the widely-varying international income basis.
  • Sigrid would like to discuss this before making any decisions.
• First meeting of the Joomla.org redesign group. The team wants to explore the ideas they have and keep working.

Vice President

• STF… 
  • Next step?

    • Can we clarify the relationship among milestones?

    • Milestones can be done in parallel.

    • The board first approves to move forward with STF, then put it out for a community vote.

    • Need to figure out a fair, transparent plan/process to select contributors.

• Scalahosting…
  • Updated proposal finally received.
  • Hybrid format guarantees a certain income and gives room for growth ($).
  • Based on the proposal, requires probably more affiliates than we might garner in 6 month, so what does Scalahosting do then? Renews, changes condition or stops sponsoring us? Questions to be sent to Scalahosting.
  • Board should read this proposal before the next Full Board meeting and discuss then.
• We need to discuss the Joomla! Supporters Club. (was not discussed during VP’s time).
• JUG Italia would like to organize a JoomlaDay Italia in 2027. What is the status of the supposed agreement between OSM and the site owner of host.it and the joomla.it domains regarding the organization of a JoomlaDay Italia?
• CRA (Cyber Resiliency Act, Europe) - how should I get the information across to the community?
  • Production DC suggested that the Vice-President write-up our concerns and who this information is for.
  • CRA is in flux. Open Source was not even initially included, many OSS organisations got together to defend Open Source interests and get the EU to update the text..
  • Sep ‘26 expectation is for OSM to become a stewart, create a page on joomla.org to have a verifiable, easy clear cybersecurity policy, as well as a process to report vulnerabilities for users and MSAs including at least one channel and an easy process to inform users of said vulnerability.
  • Holopin concept -
  • Too many uncertainties to address at this meeting.

Secretary

• Approving past minutes. What is the hold-up?
• Publishing the minutes from the on-hold October meeting.
• I am somehow locked out of backend access to the volunteer portal.

President

• N/A

Other business

• JWC 2026:
  • Marketing team took the JWC sponsorship grid and created a great sponsorship document.

    • Sigrid would like to see a simpler overview, but likes what is there.

  • We have first sponsor contracts

    • More sponsors needed

Motions taken during this meeting

#2026/015 - Adjournment of the meeting.
Proposed by Secretary (Bruce Scherzinger) at roughly 7:30 UTC, seconded by Outreach (Richard Gosler).
The motion passed with unanimous consent