2025-06-20

Board members: Justin Colannino,  Carlo Piana, Tracy Hinds,  Anne-Marie Scott, Chris Aniszczyk, Catharina Maracke, Josh Berkus, McCoy Smith, Guests: Stefano Maffulli  

Regrets: Gael Blondelle, Thierry Carrez, Ruth Suehle, Sayeed Choudhury

Quorum: reached at 08:07 US Pacific Time

Motion:  Tracy moves to approve the minutes of previous board meeting
Second: Carlo seconds

Justin abstains.

All others approve

Stef outlines UN Open Source Week activities, in particular meetings with digital directorate staff at the UN.

Josh presents an update on license review work, requesting that Board members in particular take a look at the licenses working their way through license review, in anticipation of bringing a recommendation for voting on at the next meeting. Carlo has been assisting on reviewing the AI licenses under consideration by the group.

Motion: Josh moves to approve the motion to admit LinuxFR as OSI Affiliates.
Second: Chris seconds
All others approve. 

At the recommendation of the policy team, OSI will join the re:Create Coalition (a US-based expert copyright group).

The board had a discussion on formalising policy and practice for joining other organisations. The board recommended that consideration should be given to cost, risk (legal, reputational, and geopolitical in particular), purpose and alignment, and obligations. A formal recommendation for approval will only need to come to the Board when there is something material or substantial in any of these areas.

Stefano presented the financial update and upcoming events.

Stefano provided an update on operations including staffing, CRM migration, and in-person board meeting arrangements. Josh highlighted the need to reinvigorate work on a system for managing the license review process.

Stefano presents an update from the Board Development group on improving our processes for Board renewal.

Stefano presented an update on the establishment of the OSI Europe Stichting.

Stefano provided an update on the refreshed opensource.org

Meeting is adjourned at 09:45 US Pacific Time.