By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-07-06 17:03 in Board of Directors

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

Date: 2026-06-25
Start Time: 17:00 UTC
End Time: 18:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour

Attendees:

• President - Elisa Foltyn
• Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor (late)
• Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu
• Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
• Outreach DC - Richard Gosler
• Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

Apologies:

• Emmanuel Lemor
• Carlos Cámara

Proxies:

• Sigrid Gramlinger for Carlos Cámara (Operations DC)

Discussion Synopsis

Treasurer

• We got the money from JaB for the Academy

Production Department

• Joomla 6.2 Alpha2 was released - thanks to everybody involved and especially Martin as one of the Release Managers.
• Budget: I checked for the Drone Server (Operations Budget). It was Operations so far, but Carlos asked me to take over to Production.
  Answer from Maintainer: we are not using this service, there is no budget needed.
• Budget: JWC Scholarship: Discuss and decide about if and who we will fund as OSM.

Outreach Department

• Proposed switch from Hootsuite to SocialPilot for social media scheduling. Will save over $500 per annum.

Operations Department

• Sent user case to Mattermost on 15th. Awaiting their reply.
• JWorg redesign - Dimitris is taking over CI/CD and working on the Dokploy instance we have.
• Working on the OSM site update. I asked Rochen to copy the current site to the sandbox and I’m following the directions George wrote. I started the process on my car and found some things we can improve in the template code. Anyway I want to test migration to j6 and we should be good to update the site by next week.

Vice President

• At UN Open Source Week this week.

Secretary

• N/A

President

• Discussing the contract with Scala 

Other business

• STF: we have the final version of the contract - Motion sent by E-Mail
• STF: Two project managers were selected after interviews with 9 applicants. We have 6 applications for the expert audit (MS1a) and 3 interviews. The Accessibility team with Viviana supports here, as well as one of the project managers.

Motions taken during this meeting

• #2026/035 - The Board approves the Budget Plan for Fiscal Year 2026/27 as presented.
  Proposed by Ufuk Avcu, seconded by Richard Gosler
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.
• #2026/036 - As we don’t have the selection Committee set up, after interviews with milestone 1a applicants we decide for a partner for the audit like selected by our STF Project Manager.
  Proposed by Elisa Foltyn, seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.
• #2026/037 - Adjourn the meeting
  Proposed by Bruce Scherzinger, seconded by Sigrid Gramlinger
  The motion passed with unanimous consent.

Motions taken offline before this meeting

• #2026/034 - Email motion: Our President will sign the contract as of the version of June 22, 2026 with the Sovereign Tech Agency.
  Proposed by Sigrid Gramlinger, seconded by Elisa Foltyn
  The motion passed with 6/7 consent, one omitted vote.