2021-02-19

Last modified by Thierry Carrez on 2021/10/28 16:10

Live Meeting Notes:

Call in information:

Quorum

Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 16:06 UTC.

Attendees

Board Members

Chris Lamb

Deb Bryant

Elana Hashman

Faidon Liambotis

Hong Phuc Dang

Italo Vignoli

Josh Simmons

Megan Byrd-Sanicki

Pamela Chestek

Tracy Hinds

Guests

Deb Nicholson

Expected, but Not Present

Regrets

Approve minutes from last time (2 minutes)

Deb motioned, Chris seconded

Minutes from January's Meeting

https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI%20Board%20of%20Directors/Board%20Meeting%20Notes/January%2015%2C%202020%20Draft%20Minutes/

Vote: 9 yes;  no; 1 abstain

Agenda

Finance update: Tracy (10 minutes)

Fundraising: Deb & Tracy (10 minutes)

Take a look at the sponsor sheet to see if everyone is in the right place. 

Consider a campaign to announce a new level? Fundraising committee

Board Business (20 minutes) 

  • Short discussion identifying elements for inclusion in the Board Orientation (Deb)

Lots of names and I didn't know who they are, a who's who or org chart?

Lots of platforms, and I didn't know where everything was

What level of licensing knowledge do you need to have?

What are we trying to achieve, what is our mission, vision, etc? 

What kinds of conversations should I expect to have

Fiduciary responsibility, other liability?

Things we are committed to, eg Budget

Job descriptions for committees, scope for each

Overview of our programmatic activity

Norms and traditions, golf clap

How is the retreat different then regular meetings?

what are the traditions with the retreat? 

Bylaws (https://opensource.org/bylaws) elections (https://opensource.org/elections)and appointments )(https://opensource.org/node/1011

  • Highlighting roles that are or will be empty soon, plus Q&A (Josh)

Nominations are open through March 2nd

Officers will be revoted when we seat a new board

Snowdrift Update, Q&A (5 minutes, Elana)

They got a donation but after the end of 2020 so we still have some of their money

BREAK

Staffing Committee - Exec Dir update, including timing (15 minutes, Megan)

We modeled around hiring in July and raising about $300K this year

This isn't quite possible with our current momentum

Start interviewing on May 1st, update the current applicants

Our close date is a little later now, need to do some messaging to socialize

Strategic Exercise on Vision, discussion (25 minutes, Megan) 

Looking for two people to help draft a vision for the next three years to bring back to the next board meeting

What we be most proud of having accomplished in the next three years? 

Converted to a staff driven org

An OSI that is responsive to developments in the industry

Reputation is modernized

Contemporarily relevant

Financially stable,looking at what more we can do not how to make sure we aren't doing less

We should have evolved in three years to have new goals

Internationally recognized org that adds value to the community beyond the license list

Change the conversation around open source so that it's being lead by advocates and practitioners

Explore the idea of creating a European entity

For OSI to be a leader, we need to be doing the convening, coalition building, listening, bridging, etc.

Be the uncontested, authoritative voice on what open source is

Fellow crafters? Elana and Deb B., Italo

Next meeting (5 minutes, Deb) 

Next Board Meeting

The next OSI board meeting is scheduled for...

March 19th

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