By Wilco Alsemgeest on 2021-08-02 21:41 in Operations

Participants: Wilco Alsemgeest (Director), Jaz Parkyn (JED ATL), Llewellyn van der Merwe (JED TL) , Sander Potjer (JVP TL), Roland Dalmulder (JVP ATL), Sebastien Lapoux (Showcase TL)
Apologies: Andrea Gentil (JCM TL), Olaf Offick (Forum TL)

Department Coordinator:

• The department meeting on June 21 was skipped, because of personal reasons and availability of various members.
• Board reports since the previous meeting on May 17:
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/board-of-directors/reports/1514-osm-inc-full-board-meeting-may-20-2021
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/board-of-directors/reports/1520-osm-inc-full-board-meeting-june-03-2021
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/board-of-directors/reports/1528-osm-inc-full-board-meeting-june-17-2021
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/board-of-directors/reports/1552-osm-inc-full-board-meeting-july-01-2021
• Budgets:
  Our department only received the needed budget for the Operational Expenses to keep the lights on.
  Luca managed to get a grant of 20K from Amazon to decrease our cost, 15K has been allocated to the Marketing department for promotional purposes, not specifically within the department. I made clear that the Community Magazine should be allowed to use a part of this grant. The team can discuss the needs and possibilities with Philip Walton, he is required to write a strategy before the 15K is provided.
• After extensive consideration I decided to let somebody else take over the board role as Operations DC. The situation in the community on various levels is not healthy for someone for a long period of time.

Community Magazine team:

• July issue on progress
• Latest Team Meeting Report:
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/joomla-community-magazine-team/reports/1537-jcm-meeting-report-june-28th-2021

Extensions Directory team:

• Latest Team Meeting Report:
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/extensions-directory-team/reports/1541-jed-team-meeting-june-22nd-2021

Forum team:

• The current Team Leader and Assistant were reelected for another year.
• The full set of forum structure has been discussed and will become available when Joomla 4 is released.

Showcase Directory team:

• Latest Team Meeting Report:
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/site-showcase-team#reports

Volunteers Portal team:

• July Report
  https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/volunteers-portal-team/reports/1561-volunteers-portal-july-2021-report 

Other Business:

• The meeting for Augustus will be skipped, because of the holiday season.
  The next meeting will be in September.