2025-03-21

Board members: Carlo Piana, Tracy Hinds,  Gael Blondelle, Pamela Chestek, Thierry Carrez, Anne-Marie Scott, Chris Aniszczyk, Catharina Maracke, Sayeed Choudhury

Guests: Stefano Maffulli  

Regrets: Justin Colannino

Quorum: reached at 8:05 US Pacific Time

Tracy welcomes the board and calls the meeting to order. 

Motion:  Anne-Marie moves to approve the minutes of previous board meeting
Second: Carlo seconds

Thierry and Catharina abstain.

All others approve

Motion:  Thierry moves to approve the minutes of special board meeting to validate elections on March 20
Second: Tracy seconds

Josh abstains.

All others approve

Chris, Tracy, and Stef present the progress of the Board development committee about putting together advisory committees to better represent the diversity of OSI constituents beyond individual members and affiliates.

The goal is to align the organisation structure with the mission to build bridges among the different constituencies in the Open Source community. 

The board discusses different approaches to setup different advisory boards that can provide recommendations and represent the different points of views of the different constituencies of the Open Source community.

Simon Phipps joins the meeting at 8:50 PT

Simon presents the plan to create OSI Europe stichting in the Netherlands with the goal to make it easier to participate in EU activities like ETSI standardization, CRA activities and more. 

Simon plans to be able to incorporate this organization in the coming weeks so that it can be operational by early June. 

Simon shared the Articles of Association with the board for review and comment. 

The expectation is that the OSI board will propose a list of initial board members for OSI Europe who can go through the paperwork in Netherlands. This list should be approved during the next OSI Board meeting in April.

Simon leaves the meeting at 9:30 PT

Sayeed joins the meeting at 9:34 PT

Stef presents proposed key objectives and KPIs for 2025.

Stef presents operations, including financial status 

Motion:  Pam moves that the OSI approve the OSC License version 1 as an Open Source Initiative Certified license in the International category of licenses.

Second: Catharina seconds

All others approve

Josh insists that the web site must mention that the license is in German and is a specific request from a government to adjust to local regulations. 

Motion: Chris moves that the OSI board would like to thank Pam for her many years of service to the OSI board and work on the licensing committee and also being instrumental in shaping the OSI organization from a volunteer body to a professionally staffed one.

Second: Anne-Marie

Pam abstains 

All others in favor.

Meeting is adjourned at 10:00AM US Pacific time.