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

Date: April 23, 2021

Participants: Patrick Jackson, Laura Gordon, Benjamin Trenkle, Philip Walton, Shirielle Williams,

Apologies: Luca Marzo, Jaz Parkyn, Davide Messia, Llewellyn van der Merwe,

Absent without notice: Chris Keen,  Mark Bender, Hugh Douglas-Smith, Niels Braczek, Marianela Queme, Hugh Douglas-Smith, Marco Dings, David Aswani

Meeting started 13:00 UTC

Team Leader’s Report

For a second month in a row, the VET team’s been distracted from VET tasks by their involvement in various other Joomla activities:

• JoomlaDay USA: Laura, Shirielle

• GSoC: Philip, Benjamin, Llewellyn, Patrick, Shirielle

• Events & JUG Teams: Shirielle, Philip, Benjamin, David A, Laura,