2025-11-21 Board Meeting

Board members: Thierry Carrez, Gael Blondelle, Tracy Hinds, McCoy Smith, Ruth Suehle, Carlo Piana, Sayeed Choudhury, Josh Berkus

Guests: Deb Bryant

Regrets: Chris Aniszczyk. Anne-Marie Scott, Catharina Maracke

Quorum:

Quorum reached at 8:05 a.m. Pacific Time US

Agenda and Notes:

Motion: McCoy moves to approve the minutes of previous board meeting

Second: Ruth seconds

Sayeed, Thierry, and Gaël abstain

All others approve

Deb reports that the Policy and Standards Team appreciated the opportunity to meet with the board in Brussels. As not all board members were available, the team offered to do a one-off meeting to repeat part of the presentation to board members who were not able to attend the face to face meeting.

Deb reports about the events where OSI participated, especially Open Forum Academy (OFA) Symposium where they announced a new Open Technology Research Network focused on defining a research agenda for Open Source research topics. We were also invited to join an event in China and Nick is going there.

OSI is co-organizing two devrooms at FOSDEM: the EU Policy Devroom, and the DPGA devroom.

Deb presents the financial report.

Josh introduces the case of the AFN license that was submitted but is not compliant with the OSD.

Motion: McCoy moves to reject the AFN license submission because it does not comply with the OSD.

Second: Carlo seconds

All others approve

McCoy met with SPDX people at an LF event and there is a request to align better so that the OSI license database and the SPDX team in order to avoid inconsistencies.

The board agrees to organise a meeting between the license committee and the SPDX team to list issues

Catharina joins the meeting at 8:27

Ruth reports on the ED search committee. We received 140 applications that we reduced to 20 applicants who went through screening. We have 7 solid candidates.

Tracy reports that the Board development committee meeting is already prepping for Spring elections.

Sayeed leaves the meeting at 9:10 Pacific time.

Meeting is adjourned at 9:16 Pacific time.