By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-05-26 14:38 in Board of Directors

Date: 2026-04-30
Start Time: 17:00 UTC
End Time: 18:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour

Attendees:

  • Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
  • Operations DC - Carlos Cámara
  • Outreach DC - Richard Gosler
  • Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

Apologies:

  • Ufuk and Sigrid could not attend.

Proxies:

  • Bruce was Ufuk’s proxy, due to his prior commitments.
  • Carlos was Sigrid’s proxy, while she conducted the JoomlaDay Virtual Lunch.

Discussion Synopsis

Treasurer

  1. Ongoing task: Get Money collected Money for the Joomla Academy

Production Department

  • STF:
    1. Working on final application text
    2. Next steps?
      • Prepare looking for project managers
      • Prepare governance setup
  • JWC:
    1. Sessions by board members?
      • Members discussed what sort of sessions JWC might approve
    2. Travelling seems difficult/expensive
    3. 2 requests for financial support so far
    4. External Speakers: Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine has confirmed.
  • JetBrains PHPStorm: our 50 licenses for Open Source development were renewed for free. Jetbrains asked for updating their logo on our partner website.
  • New logo: https://www.jetbrains.com/company/brand/#logos-and-icons
  • JetBrains PHPverse 2026 (https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2026/)
    Who can discuss the Media Partnership with them?

Outreach Department

  • Nothing important. Final update prior to the Outreach Sprint.

Operations Department

  1. We have finished the UX Study for JED with interesting remarks and a great job by the student.
  2. Joomla.org redesign group keeps working on the new design.

Vice President

  1. JUG Italia / Marco Mangione situation - we need to act as a Board at this point…
  2. Scalahosting Proposal review/vote
  3. Joomla Engagement Community Guidelines push to the community now that it is final?

Secretary

  1. Joomlers extension on the Volunteers portal has issues. Working with Roland to resolve.
  2. Election period for OSM President closes tomorrow.

President

  • N/A

Other business

  • None

Action Items

  • None

Motions taken during this meeting

  • #2026/018 - Adjournment
    Proposed by Bruce Scherzinger, seconded by Carlos Cámara.
    The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Motions taken offline before this meeting

  • None