2025-02-21

Board members: Justin Colannino, Carlo Piana, Tracy Hinds,  Gael Blondelle, Pamela Chestek, Anne-Marie Scott, Sayeed Choudhury, Chris Aniszczyk,, Josh Berkus

Guests: Stefano Maffulli  

Regrets: Thierry Carrez, Catharina Maracke

Quorum: reached at 8:04 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: Chris

Justin abstains.

All others approve. 

Stefano presents the Financial health overview. OSI finances are in good shape. Membership payments are on track in January. 

Sayeed gives his feedback from attending the AI Action Summit: 

  • Two main announcements were ROOST and Current.AI
  • The OSAID is still a new thing for most people. But we see no pushback from the ones we pitched it too. 

The use of the OSAID definition starts preading with different orgs and governments. 

Stefano gives the operation update:

  • Onboarding Katie Steen-James brings the expected capacity in addressing policy topics in the US.
  • We started a contract with Jono Bacon to improve communication to our constituents.

Sayeed leaves the meeting at 8:25 US Pacific Time.

Tracy presents an update about the Election process. 

Carlo Piana leaves the meeting at 8:28 US Pacific Time as he runs for the election as affiliate representative.

Carlo Piana rejoins the meeting at 9:02 US Pacific Time.

The board discusses organizational topics, including the frequency of board meetings, and how to better organize work streams in committees. 

The board discusses the fact that the AI committee has not yet started.  

Pam: We got the first AI licenses submitted for review to the License Committee.

Stefano presents the concept of creating new advisory boards: Sustainability (Industry), Non-Profit (based on Affiliate program), and Academia.

Motion: Josh moves to remove the AI committee and to bring forward a proposal to establish advisory boards that represent key stakeholders groups who can provide input across the range of our activities in any year.
Second: Chris

All others approve. 

The board expresses the expectation to have a full proposal, developed with the board development committee by March board meeting.

The board enters an Executive session at 9:15

The board closes the Executive session at 9:19

Stefano gives a demonstration of a new license evaluation tool. Still a rough prototype whose UI will be improved to integrate comments from the license committee. Especially that the comment area should be much larger to allow proper conversation.

Stefano gives an update about the set up of a secretariat for the Open Source Congress. 

Stefano leaves the the meeting at 9:54 US Pacific Time

The board enters an Executive session at 9:54 US Pacific Time

The board closes the Executive session at 9:57 US Pacific Time

Meeting formally adjourned at 9:57 US Pacific Time.