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1. Stability issues and MySQl 9

   In recent months we had some stability issues because of some random installation system test failures. The problem was that for a long time the installation test was not executed with the stylesheet. As this happened on 6.2 and 5.4 with the pr's #46879 and #47734, Chrome shot some random Javascript errors about transition problems. This was fixed and tests are running stable now. Currently Microsoft has some docker issues, where layers can't be downloaded during Github Actions, but this is out of our control and it stabilizes in last weeks as well.

   As we were testing only MySQL 8 in our systems tests for pull requests, it was time to also test MySQL 9 regularly. With the pr #47856, we finally got the task done and are now testing the proposed code changes beside MySLQ 8 also on the

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2. OSM Inc. Board Meeting May 28, 2026

   Date: 2026-05-28
   Start Time: 17:00 UTC
   End Time: 19:20 UTC
   Total time of meeting: 2 hours 20 minutes

   Attendees:

   • President - Elisa Foltyn
   • Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
   • Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu (by proxy)
   • Operations DC - Carlos Cámara
   • Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
   • Outreach DC - Richard Mosler
   • Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

   Apologies:

   Ufuk Avcu

   Proxies:

   Sigrid Gramlinger for Ufuk Avcu

   Discussion Synopsis

   Treasurer

   • We set up a Wise EUR account for the Sovereign Tech Fund so we can receive Euro payments via IBAN. This likely triggered the USD warning because the trading address had to be clarified. Wise has since confirmed that everything is correctly set up, but the warning is still visible, so I have asked Wise again for final

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3. Joomla! 7 Deprecation Sprint - June 2026

   Participants: Allon Moritz, Benjamin Trenkle,Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Hannes Papenberg, Harald Leithner, Martin Kopp, Richard Fath, Tuan Pham Ngoc, Viviana Menzel

   The Joomla Maintenance Team completed a major cleanup for Joomla 7.0, removing over 100 deprecated code notices and merging 25+ related pull requests. Legacy APIs and outdated helpers were removed to simplify maintenance, improve code quality, and make the codebase more accessible for contributors. Documentation was updated through 23+ additional PRs to support the transition.

   Find the migration guide here.

4. Production Dept. Meeting May 26, 2026

   Duration: 10mins

   Attendees:

   Sigrid Gramlinger, David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Olivier Buisard, Viviana Menzel

   Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger)

   1. STF Project - Contract should come within the next days. Kick off now on July 1st, we are looking for Project managers and Expert Audit:
      https://www.opensourcematters.org/projects.html
   2. Martina shared the link of the Linux Foundation with me. For “Legal” it seems, we need to fix the JSON. And for “Quality” - who can check?
      a

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5. OSM Inc. Board Meeting May 14, 2026

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

   Date: 2026-05-14
   Start Time: 15:00 UTC
   End Time: 17:00 UTC
   Total time of meeting: 2 hours

   Attendees:

   • President - Elisa Foltyn
   • Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
   • Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu (absent - no proxy)
   • Operations DC - Carlos Cámara (early departure - Emmanuel as proxy)
   • Outreach DC - Richard Mosler
   • Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

   Apologies:

   • Sigrid Gramlinger (Production DC)

   Proxies:

   • Elisa Foltyn for Sigrid Gramlinger
   • Emmanuel Lemor for Carlos Cámara, who had to leave early

   Discussion Synopsis

   Treasurer

   1. Yesterday, we had another meeting with Karen Rebek, our bookkeeper.
   2. Elisa also joined the meeting to
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