2023-02-17

Feb 17, 2023

Board Members Catharina Maracke, Justin Colannino, Tracy Hinds, Carlo Piana, Aeva Black, Josh Berkus, Pamela Chestek,

Regrets Thierry Carrez, Amanda Brock

Guests Stefano Maffulli

Quorum reached at 08:03

Notes

Approval of previous minutes

Aeva was sick for much of the last month and apologizes for not having completed preparation of last month’s minutes. Action moved to email.

Operational Update

Simon and Deb join to present an update from the Policy and Standards Committee. 

EU Update: currently before the Parliament are Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive; upcoming items include SEP Regulation Update and Interoperable Europe Act; anticipated new items include Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act.

US Activities: mandate for SBOMs has been removed from DAA. License clinic is planned for 4/4 in D.C.. Digital Public Goods Alliance collaboration announced during FOSDEM. Open Policy Alliance underway. 

The Board requests education from our outside counsel on how our staff engages with government officials to ensure that we are complying with US Federal guidelines for non-profits.

Stef provides a financial update. We continue to have 7 months of operating reserves. ClearlyDefined community manager has been hired, will start next month. We renewed Deb Bryant’s contract for another year.

Stef provides operational updates. Our new website has been launched, bringing the total to four sites (main, blog, civi, deepdive podcast).

Upcoming Q1 activities: run the board elections, support booth at SCaLE, and run the license clinic.

Stef presents an overview of the new website layout.

Stef suggests all board minutes be consolidated into one location, instead of split between the website (pre-2020) and wiki (post-2020). Aeva agrees in principle with consolidating into one location, and suggests using git / gitlab, instead of wordpress, as the location of record. Discussion ensues, and the topic is moved to email.

Stef presents the previously-agreed-upon election timeline. No concerns raised.

Meeting adjourned at 09:45