OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, Octiber 8th, 2014
Board Members
Meeting called to order 16:07 UTC
- Deb Bryant
- Richard Fontana
- Allison Randal: (Arrived, 16:25 UTC)
- Patrick Masson
- MIke Milinkovich (Departed, 11:30)
- Bruno Souza
- Tony Wasserman
- Stefano “Zack” Zacchiroli
Sent Regrets
- Leslie Hawthorn
- Simon Phipps
- Luis Villa
Officer Reports
President’s Report (Simon)
None
Secretary’s Report (Patrick)
- MOTION: Patrick – Approve Draft Minutes for Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
- Second: Zack
- Discussion: Modifications of start times
- Vote: Yes 7, ; No, 0 ; Abstain, 0
- Passed
- MOTION: Patrick – Postpone Nov. 5th BoD meeting to Face to Face.
- Second: Mike
- Discussion: Planning page to
- Vote: Yes, 7; No, 0; Abstain, 0
- Passed
Please monitor / review / contribute to the Face to Face planning page.
Treasurer’s Report (Mike, but mostly Jane)
Mike and Patrick should contact corporate sponsors to confirm continued support for 2015.
Inquiry about Flattr (from tbm, relayed by zack): Are the donations made through Flattr transfered to paypal on a regular basis? (tbm used to do that)? Patrick responded “yes, Jane is taking care of that for the Board.”
For the Month Ending September 30, 2014
Total Assets:
- $95,417.58 compared to $ 103,886.71 a decrease of $ 8,469.13 which can be explained by the combination of $1133.99 less $12119.25 less $2516.16 (see below)
- We transferred $ 901.47 in USD from Paypal in September.
Income or Sources of Funds:
- Contributions: $149.00
- Memberships: $640 (16 x $40)
- Open Hatch: Received $663.46 paid $ 321.46 (actually paid 10/8/14) for a net cash inflow of $342.00
- Interest: $2.99
Total Income or Sources of Funds: $ 1133.99
- Grants Receivable $5000.00 from Twitter
- $4000.00 from SpagoBI (Our bank information has been sent)
Major Contributions to date this year:
- Corporate Sponsor $ 5000
- Corporate Sponsor $ 25000
- Corporate Sponsor $ 20000
- Corporate Sponsor $ 25000
- Corporate Sponsor $ 25000
- Corporate Sponsor $ 2500
- Corporate Sponsor $ 5000 invoiced May and outstanding
Expenses or Uses of Funds for Operations: $12119.25
- Payroll $ 9038.01
- Professional $ 1603.77 (as of 10/6/14:Tor Ekland to date $2335.82 of $6000)
- Bank Fees $ 50.68
- Meetings $ 1172.68
- Website Hosting $ 229.60
- Paypal $ 24.51
Change in Liabilities (Payroll liabilities increase) $2516.16
Total Uses of Funds $ 8,469.13
- Note: Accrued payroll taxes are due to be paid in October, about $9K
Accounts reconciled:
- Wells Fargo Savings and Checking, September 2014;
- Paypal through September 2013
General Counsel’s Report (Mark)
None
General Manager Report (Patrick)
Operations
Board
- Face to Face meeting planning
Financial
- Boston BoD Meeting Reimbursements
- Fiscal Sponsorship report from OpenHatch
Internships/Volunteers
- Kitware staffing
Portfolios
Affiliate Membership
- inquiry from:
- ChickTech
- Moodle
- Open Source for America
Patrick and Richard to better define eligibility for edu, user group and affiliate.Address issues around definitions of openness in education and use brand.
Patrick to notify Mautic that the Board did not vote.
Corporate Sponsors
- Engineering Group
- Invoicing
- Graphic design / logos
- General Electric Research
- Craigslist acknowledgement
Individual Memberships
- New membership cards
- Membership mailing lists responses
- Joomla! World Conference discount
Infrastructure
- Hosting negotiations with ADG / Studio136
- Wiki self-registration form updates
- Wiki spam and user verification
Licensing
- NYU / amicus brief data/information
Marketing/Communications
- Patrick to add stats
- Channel Analytics
- Twitter, Google Analytics, XWiki, Drupal, etc.
- Communications
- 395 Tweets
- Events
- FOSSETCON
- Educause
- Conference Session: planning, speakers, promotions
- Open Communities Reception: planning, sponsorships, promotions
- SC14
- Press Releases
- Engineering Group
- WordPress
- AgilePR templates
- AgilePR & press@opensource.org list use
Trademarks/Registration
- Open Source Integrators
- International Registration
- Discussion around strategic w/Patrick send invite
- Qabel follow-up
Working Groups
- FLOSS Entities payments
- FLOW Syllabus Meetings
- FOSSEL: Patrick to send out proposal.
- Make sure we provide feedback on why it was declined if that is the outcome, but how may better align with OSI or an existing project. Folks shouls offer suggestions bout how they can proceed.
Portfolio Reports
Affiliate Membership (Richard)
None
Brand Identity (Deb)
None
Corporate Sponsorship (Mike)
None
Education and Training (Tony)
TODO (as in http://todogroup.org/) update: After announcement Tony talked to James Pierce (Facebook) who is leading effort of the 10 companies.
- Very early days and might have been expecting the level of interest following annnouncement
- Acknowledged they may not be aware of the broader community. Tony provided contacts.
- Open to working with OSI
- Open to expanding to other companies
- They have not meet as a group yet
- Tony asked to be included in communications (mailings, meetings, etc.)
- Might want to invite James to meet at F2F.
- How can OSI work with TODO
- Publisize help raise participation in TODO work/initiaatives
- Board Directors support their efforts through references (people) and resources (activities/events)
- OSI can influence their work and direction
- TODO interest in OSI
- Appeared open to work with those who can forward their goals (although those might not be well defined)
- What would the OSI want to do with them?
- OSI should take the opportunity to align our work/values with TODO
- We can send an invitation to the TODO folks for the F2F.
- Patrick to send discussion email.
Incubator (Simon)
Review working group proposal “Founding an Open Source Software Engineering Laboratory (FOSSEL).”
Individual Membership (Allison)
Ongoing Activity
See Portfolio Page
Member Benefits
Joomla! World Conference benefit: 50% off registration
| Intended Recipients | 226 |
| Tracked Opens | 68 |
| Click-throughs | 2 |
Memberships
- 32 new/renewed Individual Memberships attempted
- 9 new/renewed Individual Memberships attempted
- 21 new/renewed Individual Memberships pending
Infrastructure (Bruno)
- Received proposal review back from AGD for OSI web site redesign/hosting, so we will begin moving forward with the project.
- Auditing current web site to identify current/relevant content
- Approach will be to stand up Drupal and CiviCRM environment; implement desired functionality; migrate content/data.
- Working with Allison on workflow for memberships for our members.
- Working with Leslie on information architecture.
- Will create an archive of historical information rather than having historical pages as part of the front end navigation.
- Under review: Our elections tool.
License Approval (Luis)
Marketing (Leslie)
- Developed initial messaging index based on input from Agile PR as a result of our messaging workshop at OSCON. http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/awareness_home
- Going forward, will be meeting with Deb Bryant bi-weekly to prioritize and continue executing on deliverables for the awareness working group.
(Patrick need your help to set this up.)
Ongoing Activity
See Portfolio Page
Events
Educause: Open Communities Reception & Openness Constituent Group
Leads
| Corporate Sponsor | Affiliate | Educational Affiliate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acquia | Kaltura | Casper College | |
| Blackboard | Kuali Foundation | Central Florida | |
| Dell | Solar | Clemson | |
| Kaltura | Framingham | ||
| Longsite | Madison College | ||
| Moodlerooms | Nebraska – Lincoln | ||
| Pearson | Pfeiffer | ||
| Unicon | RIT | ||
| Vivantech | Southern Queensland | ||
| Thompson Rivers |
Communication Channel Stats
OSI Website
- Sessions: 225,133 | Users: 201,456 | Pageviews: 366,477 | Pages / Session: 1.63
Avg. Session Duration: 00:01:05 | Bounce Rate: 77.39% | New Sessions: 86.36%
| Hits | Page |
|---|---|
| 1346441 | The MIT License (MIT) licenses/MIT |
| 745425 | Blogs blog/ |
| 347088 | The Open Source Initiative front |
| 253474 | The BSD 2-Clause License licenses/BSD-2-Clause |
| 179031 | Common Public License Version 1.0 licenses/cpl1.0.txt |
| 115502 | GNU General Public License Versions licenses/gpl-license |
| 67983 | Open Source Licenses licenses |
| 65694 | Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL-1.0) licenses/CDDL-1.0 |
| 61748 | The Open Source Definition osd |
| 50857 | The BSD 3-Clause License licenses/BSD-3-Clause |
| 49697 | About the Open Source Initiative about |
| 40985 | Frequently Answered Questions faq |
| 39745 | The Open Source Definition (Annotated) osd-annotated |
| 36907 | Apache License, Version 2.0 licenses/Apache-2.0 |
| 30067 | LGPL Licenses licenses/lgpl-license |
| 29010 | Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? node/163 |
| 26271 | GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPL-3.0) licenses/gpl-3.0.html |
| 24909 | OSI Corporate Sponsors & Partners support |
| 22185 | GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL-2.0) licenses/gpl-2.0.php |
| 17801 | Licenses by Name licenses/alphabetical |
| 16824 | Terms of Service ToS |
| 16295 | OSI Affiliate Membership affiliates |
| 16054 | Open Standards Requirement osr-intro |
Twitter (@OpenSourceOrg)
- New followers: 433 | Impressions 361.7K | Link clicks: 589 | Retweets: 329 | Favorites: 319 | Replies: 25
- Twitter activity
OSI Wiki
All time
| Hits | Page | Space |
|---|---|---|
| 527,009 | WebHome | Main |
| 69015 | SpaceIndex | Main |
| 67355 | FreeLibreOpenWorksManagementEducation | Projects |
September
Press Releases
| Release | Hits | Published |
| prPIG Joins the Open Source Initiative® | 315 | 2014-08-25 |
| OSI and Conservancy Announce US Tax Exemption Working Group | 364 | 2014-08-12 |
| Open Source Initiative (OSI) Announces New Affiliate Member, DemocracyLab | 200 | 2014-07-08 |
| Open Source Initiative (OSI) Announces New Affiliate Members | 426 | 2014-03-15 |
Newsletters
| Delivery Summary | July/August | May/June | Mar/April | Jan/Feb |
| Intended Recipients | 1987 | 1886 | 1753 | 1693 |
| Tracked Opens | 257 | 239 | 232 | 260 |
| Click-throughs | 109 | 58 | 72 | 106 |
| Opt-out Requests | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Trademark Stewardship (Zack)
Standing Committees
Budget (Mike)
Membership (Allison)
- MOTION: Richard – Approve Application from BigBlueButton Inc. for Affiliate Membership (Signed Agreement / Cover Letter)
- Second: Patrick
- Discussion:
- Vote: Yes, 7; No, 0; Abstain, 1
- Passed
Advocacy Committee (Deb)
Discussion (Patrick): Board Member Cross-Promotion
- After now attending four open source / technology conferences, I’m wondering how we might be able to take advantage of the many events our board is invited to and participates in? Can we establish some sort of practice for Directors to include OSI awareness when they participate in relevant events?
Discussion (Deb & Mark): U.S. Government to develop policy on open source.
- Should we try to offer assistance? http://technical.ly/dc/2014/09/29/us-craft-open-source-policy-next-year/
- Deb will do some homework and frame up how we might get involved for the board’s consideration
Election Committee: (Simon)
Old Business
Please review the current list of open issues, tasks, requests on Redmine.
Next Board Meeting
The next OSI board meeting is scheduled for Nov. 11th & 12th.
- MOTION: Adjourn meeting.
- Second: Patrick
- Discussion:
- Vote: Yes, 8; No, 0; Abstain, 0
- Passed
Meeting adjourned at… 17:30 UTC
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