2023-10-20

Board Members Aeva Black, Tracy Hinds, Carlo Piana, Anne-Marie Scott, Josh Berkus, Justin Colannino, Pamela Chestek, Catharina Maracke, Thierry Carrez

Guests Stefano Maffuli 

Regrets None

Quorum reached at 08:05 PT

Notes

Carlo calls the meeting to order, and thanks Catharina for all of her service as the outgoing Chair.

The board discusses recruiting additional board members to fill identified gaps.

Catharina, joining us from an unusual timezone, departed at 08:50.

Operational Updates

Stef provides the Board with an operational update and summarizes the primary work streams of license/legal, policy/standards, and advocacy/outreach. Stef recommends to the Board not to expand working programs in 2024, and instead to focus on reinforcing what we have built in 2023. In particular, Stef suggests to the Board that we invest in reinforcing our proposed definition of Open Source AI.

The Board discusses difficult trade offs between competing priorities and ongoing commitments, including the OSI Approved License mark, sustaining ClearlyDefined, growing the Open Policy Alliance, continued outreach for Deep Dive AI, running License Clinic, and opensource.net community.

A few Board members note that an in-person Board Planning Workshop would better facilitate these difficult prioritization discussions. 

The board rushes through remaining items at 09:50. 

Aeva moves to postpone the approval of meeting minutes. Carlo seconds. All present approve.

Josh moves to approve ASF. Aeva seconds. All present approve.

Josh moves to approve the Matrix foundation. Anne-marie seconds. All present approved.

The Board agrees to postpone the SustainOSS affiliate review.

Pam introduces a discussion of the ICU License, noting that it is a minor variance of the MIT license and that the License Committee recommends its approval. Pamela moves to approve the ICU License. Josh seconds. All present approve. 

Josh offers to take his LCWG status report to email. 

The meeting is adjourned at 10:00.