Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES
- April  20, 2021

Participants: Benjamin Trenkle (Team Leader), George Wilson (Release Lead 4.0), Hannes Papenberg (Team Leader), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 3.9), Marco Dings (Department Coordinator), Llewellyn van der Merwe (Assistant Department Coordinator), Jacob Waisner (Team Leader), Niels Braczek (Team Leader), Sigrid Gramlinger (Team Leader), Philip Walton (Team Leader), Robert Deutz (Team Leader), Tobias Zulauf (Release Lead 3.10)
Absent with notice: David Jardin (Team Leader)
Absent without notice: Mike Brandner (Team Leader)

Release Leads (Benjamin Trenkle, George Wilson, Tobias Zulauf, Harald Leithner)

* Releaselead 4.0 (George Wilson):

• Release Blockers (issues):

The April JCP monthly team meeting was held on April 21st, 2021 at 18:00 (UTC) using Google Meet.

Participants:

Attendees:Chris Keen (TL), Jeroen Moolenschot

Absent with apologies: Luca Marzo
Guest: Jaz Parkyn (Dept. Co-ordinator) - not present

General points

The team discussed the following topics (documents / proposals)

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

Date: April 22, 2021
Time: 17:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 30 minutes

Attendees:

Brian Mitchell (President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Radek Suski (Treasurer), Marco Dings (Director), David Opati Aswani (Director), Hugh Douglas-Smith (Director), Jaz Parkyn (Director), Wilco Alsemgeest (Director).

Apologies:

Justine Ayebale Abunyanga (Vice President), Marianela Queme (Director).

Proxies:

Luca Marzo served as proxy for Justine Ayebale Abunyanga.

Discussion outline

Treasurer

• Radek shared the bank balances as of today.

Attendees: Patrick Jackson, Sandra Decoux, Luca Marzo, Andrea Gentil

Discussion outline

• April issue published on time: thanks to the whole team for the work done.
• May issue planning started.
• Review of monthly stats: the team considered asking if there is a budget available for running a promotion to increase the magazine's awareness.
• Author’s guide: general review needed (Links and content, including a policy of comparison with competitors and change management).
• Font sizes & readability: Patrick worked on the improvements suggested by Elisa in GH. They are ready to merge.
• Inconsistency in terminology: a language override was merged to resolve Brian Teeman’s suggestion.
• The Team Leader position is open to election. Andrea expressed her intention to run for a new term. There is one week time as the deadline for other