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

    Date: 2026-07-23
    Start Time: 17:10 UTC
    End Time: 20:20 UTC
    Total time of meeting: 2 hours 20 minutes

    Attendees:

    • President - Elisa Foltyn
    • Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
    • Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu
    • Operations DC - Carlos Cámara
    • Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
    • Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

    Apologies:

    • Outreach DC - Richard Gosler

    Proxies:

    • None

    Discussion Synopsis

    Treasurer

    • FY 2025/26 financial reports:
      • Preliminary reports for Board review are in the Full Board Channel. Please review them.
      • After the Board review, the reports will be sent to our accountant
      • After the Board review, the reports will be published on
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  2. For an overview of how things are going, see the Kanban board of the project


    Done this week:
     
    - Ran the whole feedback loop end to end for the first time: an article was translated, corrected by hand, approved, and distilled into three rules, and re-translating the same source then produced the translation with all three corrections on its own, covering terminology, tone and a term kept untranslated.
    - Split saving from approving in the editor: Save now only saves, Approve records the corrections against the machine draft, and Approve and Publish also makes the translation live (#109).
    - Fixed saving a translation rule, which had stopped working for every rule type after the previous form change (a
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  3. Date: 23 July 2026 - 18:00-20:00 CEST (4:00pm - 6:00pm UTC) 
    Attendees: Cyril Rezé, Emmanuel Lemor (part 1), Mike Kritzer, Nadja Lamisch. 
    Guest: Elisa Foltyn, President OSM (part 1: sponsoring) 

     

    Sponsorship Strategy and Revenue Diversification

    • State of the sponsoring
      • Current ad partner generating low income, likely replaceable
      • Sponsors listed on the site is not up-to-date (Elisa contacted all the past sponsors on the list to revive their sponsorship)
    • Our current sponsorship offers are neither attractive nor prominently displayed.
    • Affiliate programs discussed as alternative revenue stream
      • ScalaHosting partnership model: subdomain, content placement, commission per contract sold
      • i
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  4. Attendees: Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Brian Teeman, Viviana Menzel, Herman Peeren, Emmanuel Lemor, Louise Hawkins, Richard Gosler

    What did we talk about

    This was a chat meeting to go collect ideas for the August issue - the birthday issue, Joomla turns 21 on the 17th. Creativity flowed and ideas were thrown around, so the issue once again looks good (this must be the most boring team within the whole of Joomla). We have a good number of quality articles in the planning. 

    The meeting lasted - wow - a little under two hours.

    Want to join a JCM meeting?

    You are more than welcome! Our meetings take place in the dedicated JCM channel on Mattermost. They're chat meetings, so if people can't join us during the meeting, they can always read back. Are you curious about the JCM or what's happening there? Join us, our channel is called OR Community Magazine.

    You don't have to be a team member to join the channel. But we

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  5. Duration: 12mins

    Attendees:

    Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Richard Fath, Viviana Manzel

    Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger)

    Sprint planning for JWC

    CMS Maintenance Team (Beniamin Trenkle)

    Regular Wednesday meeting going along. Feedback see in the GitHub tracker.

    CMS Release Team (Stefan Wendhausen)

    Release managers (names in alphabetical order)

    Release 6.2 (Martin Kopp, Viviana Menzel):

    Alpha 3 successfully released

     

    Release 5.4 (Heiko Lübbe, Richard Fath):

    Working on 5.4-dev branch PRs

     

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