By Luca Marzo on 2017-06-20 07:24 in Board of Directors

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

Date: June 15, 2017

Time: 17:00 UTC

Total time of meeting: 1 hour.

Attendees:

Robert Jacobi (President), Aleksander Kuczek (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Mike Demopoulos (Treasurer), Rowan Hoskyns-Abrahall (Director), Peter Martin (Director), Radek Suski (Director), Yves Hoppe (Director).

Apologies:

Michael Babker (Director), Søren Beck Jensen (Director)

Discussion outline

Queries from the President

Joomla! Election Cycle

Rowan shared with the Board a draft for the election process. Luca presented the overall process.

Robert finalized the “Joomla! Election Cycle Document”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVnh9UeGjm8Q094WUloTlp2bjA/view

Engagement Platform

Follow up with the platform provider next week.

Marketing & Communication Department

Radek shared a report from the Marketing leadership team.

Rowan to try getting licenses for imaging software.

Marketing Team to get in touch with hosting providers to provide contents about major updates/information.

Radek proposed to move Shop under the Operations Department. The Board discussed about Shop, Mike explained some financial rules we need to comply with.

Rowan to prepare a solution document.

Events Department

JWC Tickets are on the market.

Events Charter was updated during JAB with new Clauses.

CMS Africa Summit Planning Meeting went well.

Programs Department

Yves shared the progress of the Recognition Team and the strategic plan.

Secretary

Luca shared the information about filing a d/b/a (doing business as), as decided by the Board. Mike to get in touch with Legal Shield in order to clarify the number of counties we need to file the permission request to.

Treasurer

Mike shared progress about the “Budget” blog post that will go out in the next days.

Motions taken during this meeting

#2017/041 - Approve the Joomla! Election Cycle Document

Proposed by Robert Jacobi, seconded by Luca Marzo

The motion passed with unanimous consent.

 

#2017/042 - The Secretary proposed to adjourn the meeting

Proposed by Luca Marzo, seconded by Rowan Hoskyns-Abrahall.

The motion passed with unanimous consent.