February 10th 2016 Board Meeting Minutes

Quorum

Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 16:08 UTC.

Attendees

Board Members

  • Zack (late 16:14 UTC)
  • Patrick
  • Simon
  • Allison
  • Deb
  • Tony
  • Leslie
  • Richard (late 16:25 UTC)

Guests

  • Jane (16:08 - 16:20 UTC)

Expected, but Not Present

  • Bruno
  • Paul

Sent Regrets

  • Mike

Officer Reports

  • Motion to approve minutes: (Patrick)
  • Treasurer's report (Mike), see Appendix A
  • $52,500
  • Craigslist provided $25,000 
  • IBM: $20,000
  • Mozilla: $7,500 (Grant for Entities)
  • TODO: Ex. Com to develop budget based on Mike and Jane's framework.
  • Budgeting should include specific events to 

Board Topics

Fund raising. Here is a list of contacts (http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/OSI+Operations/Development+%26+Fund-raising) we have approached previously about sponsorship.

Elections

(as of the time of the meeting)

Candidates for One (1) Individual Member Seats:

  • Molly de Blanc
  • Matt Lee (Creative Commons)
  • Christopher Sean Morrison
  • Joshua Simmons

Candidates for Two (2) Affiliate Member Seats:

  • Saptarshi Purkayastha (OpenMRS)
  • Italo Vignoli (LibreItalia)

Membership Topics

Membership Drive Stats:

  • 22 new members

Communications Topics

  • Work proceeds apace on The Open Summit; see planning document
    • Highlights:  initial announcement press release nearly complete, Jim Whitehurst  confirmed for opening Keynote, interest from edX, Moodle and others in  participating as speakers / anchor participants
  • Two blog posts out - nominations open for Board elections &  support our membership drive
  • Next post: focused on developers & why they should join the OSI
  • OSI Directors to send bullet points on why they as devs value OSI membership
  • 10,000 Twitter followers!
  • EFF Communications re: DRM
    • Best practices for DRM in open standards.
    • Create best practices document based on EFF/WC3 covenant.
    • Adding bullet point to OSI Open Standards document on website.

Legal Topics

Infrastructure Topics

Incubator/Project Topics

Review of Timeline

  • Planning Timeline

Next Board Meeting

The next OSI board meeting is scheduled for March 9th, 2016  Meeting adjourned at 17:53UTC

    Motion (Allison): Approve and post the meeting minutes of Jan. 2016.
    Second (Patrick).
    Discussion: Minor edits
    Vote: 6 Yes; 0 No; 1 Abstain.

Appendix A - Treasurer's Report

Treasurer's Report For the Month Ending January 31, 2016

Total Assets at Beginning of Period: $38057.96

Income or Sources of Funds:

  • Contributions: $ 314.00
  • Memberships: $ 680.00 (17x $40)
  • Open Hatch: Received $254.60 paid $254.60
  • Snowdrift $ Received $5600 paid $5600
  • Commissions $ 21.00
  • Interest: $ . .59

Total Income or Sources of Funds: $ 1015.59

Expenses or Uses of Funds for Operations:

  • Payroll $ 13498.26 12/31 payroll not run until January 6. Primepay replaced rep.
  • Professional $ 582.63
  • Bank Fees $ 13.59
  • Supplies $ 32.29
  • Postage, Shipping $ 13.46
  • Conferences/Conv $ 0
  • Working Groups, Project
  • Meetings $ 3301.08
  • Website Hosting $
  • Paypal $ 27.29

Total Expenses or Uses of Funds for Operations: $17468.60

Total Assets at End of Period $21604.95
Contributions Receivable at 1/31/16

  • Annual Sponsor $20000 Invoiced 12/9/15
  • New Sponsor $ 7500 Invoiced 12/14/15
  • Annual Sponsor $20000 Invoiced 1/7/16

Major Contributions 2016:

  • Annual Sponsor, $20000, invoiced 01/7/16, received 02/09/16
  • Annual Sponsor, $20000, invoiced 12/09/15, received 02/09/16
  • New SPonsor $7500 invoiced 12/14/15, received 02/09/16

Appendix B - Team Reports

Communications Team

  • Progress on The Open Summit NY May
  • collaboration with Apereo Foundation, a focus on Open Education, Research, Administration, Academics
  • Press release will go out next week
  • Pre-launch web site (still under review) at http://theopensummit.org
  • Moodle, OSU, others joining as founding sponsors

Membership Team

Infrastructure Team

  • reintegrated  old @members.opensource.org mailing list (previously hosted by OSUOSL)  data into http://lists.opensource.org ; those lists are now  archive-only, for future reference
  • set up http:// → https:// redirection for main OSI website (TODO: Patrick)

Legal Team

  • (did we receive the trademark registration in Hong Kong)

Incubator/Projects Team

To promote and protect open source software and communities...

For over 20 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software, and build bridges between open source communities of practice. As a global non-profit, the OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.

Open source software is made by many people and distributed under an OSD-compliant license which grants all the rights to use, study, change, and share the software in modified and unmodified form. Software freedom is essential to enabling community development of open source software.