2025-01-17

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

Guests: Stefano Maffulli, Ariel Jolo 

Regrets: Justin Colannino

Quorum: reached at 8:02 US Pacific Time

Tracy welcomes the board and calls the meeting to order. 

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

Sayeed abstains.

All others approve. 

The board enters an executive session at 8:10 to discuss the topic of Perception of the term Open Source. 

Executive session closed at 8:44.

The license committee reviewed the three following licenses:

Berkeley Artistic License V5:

Motion: Pam moves to Resolve that it is the opinion of the OSI that the Berkeley Artistic License V5 does not conform to the OSD and assure software freedom and the license is therefore not approved.

Second: Carlo

All others approve.

Python Statistics Calculator License 

Motion: Pam moves to Resolve that it is the opinion of the OSI that the Python Statistics Calculator License does not conform to the OSD and assure software freedom and the license is therefore not approved.

Second: Carlo

All others approve.

Accountable Resolver License 

Motion: Pam moves to Resolve that it is the opinion of the OSI that the Accountable Resolver License version 1.0 does not conform to the OSD and assure software freedom and the license is therefore not approved.

Second: Josh

All others approve.

Ariel Jolo joins the meeting as a guest at 8:52 to present the events supporting the theme “We got your back” of 2025. There are lots of events on the list of events. We will share the duties of speaking to these events between staff and board members. Events where the OSI is present will be published on opensource.org/events

Ariel Jolo leaves the meeting at 9:05.

The board discussed the need to appoint a new License committee chair as Pam’s term on the board ends on April 1st. The new chair should be part of the board. The plan is that OSI will hire a staff member to do the heavy lifting and support the committee chair. 

Motion: Anne-Marie moves to appoint Josh Berkus as the new chair of the License Review Committee. 

Second: Tracy

All others approve.

The board thanks Pam for her service as the chair of the License Review Committee. Pam has been amazing at collecting feedback and building consensus in the Committee. 

Stefano presents the operation update to the board.

The board will run two information sessions for all candidates who run for the election and remind all candidates about their fiduciary responsibility as board members and the expectations from all board members. 

Meeting formally adjourned at 10:01 US Pacific Time.