2024-11-22

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

Guests: Stefano Maffulli , Adam Goodman

Regrets: Justin Colannino, Thierry Carrez

Quorum: reached at 8:03

Tracy welcomes everyone to the board meeting. 

Tracy Hinds moves to approve last month’s minutes. Carlo Piana seconds. Catharina and Josh abstain. All others approve. 

The Board discussed a recommendation from the license committee.

Motion (Pam Chestek): Resolved that it is the opinion of the OSI that the Adversary Public License 1.0 does not conform to the OSD and assure software freedom and the license is therefore not approved. 

Second (Carlo Piana).
All others in favor.

The board then reviewed the notes from the board strategy session on Oct 27. 

Chris Aniszczyk joined the meeting at 8:18

Sayeed Choudhury left the meeting at 9:00 

Stefano presented the draft budget for 2025 that will be refined to be approved by the Finance Committee and the Board.

Chris Aniszczyk left the meeting at 9:30

Deb Bryant, Jordan Maris, and Simon Phipps joined the meeting at 9:38 to present a proposal from OSI to run the Secretariat for the Open Source Congress.

Stefano shared some feedback from the Linux Foundation Member Summit. There is a risk with the LF AI&Data Foundation using the terms Open Source AI Models as it weakens the term Open Source.

Josh and Adam left the meeting at 10:00 

Meeting formally adjourned at 10:05 US Pacific Time