Board Members present

• Catharina Maracke
• Pam Chestek
• Tracy Hinds
• Hong Phuc
• Aeva Black
• Josh Simmons
• Justin Colannino
• Megan Byrd-Sanicki
• Italo Vignoli (joined 16:15 UTC)

Guests

• Stefano Maffulli

Regrets

• Thierry Carrez

Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 16:05 UTC.

Approval of last board meeting minutes

Motion (Josh): Approve last month’s minutes
Second (Catharina).
Discussion: Tracy mentioned the need to adjust the event section part on the notes
Vote:  9 Yes; 0 No; 0 Abstain.

Motion carries.

Financial status update

Cash reserves are still below target, waiting on promised deposits from two major sponsors. Net income positive. One new sponsor in the past month.

Operations update

Sponsor pipeline is short, low on large leads, team wants to try a different approach. Streamlined donations page is live: requires only email address, compared to ~10 fields and a captcha. New blog “Voices of Open Source” going live soon.

Board agreement update

Josh introduced language to the board agreement regarding expectations around board member attendance.

Motion (Catharina): Approve last month’s minutes
Second (Aeva).
Discussion: no further discussion
Vote:  9 Yes; 0 No; 0 Abstain.

Motion carries.

Open discussion

Josh shares a “victory lap” and speech as outgoing board chair.

Aeva shared an update that the Standards Committee has been requested to appoint an open source expert to a US Gov institution. Board agreed by consensus to allow Standards Committee to move forward with nomination. Open question: can we create press announcement about this?

Megan reminds the board to review the quarterly ED performance report.

Next Board Meeting

The next OSI board meeting is scheduled for April 15th.

Meeting adjourned at 17:55 UTC.