2026-06-29 Board Meeting

Approved on 2026-07-24

Board members: Tracy Hinds, McCoy Smith, Carlo Piana, Chris Aniszczyk, Sayeed Choudhury, Thierry Carrez, Ruth Suehle, Catharina Maracke, Anne-Marie Scott (from 8:10)

Guests: Duane O’Brien

Regrets:

Quorum: Quorum reached at 8:03 a.m. Pacific Time US

Tracy calls the meeting to order at 8:03 a.m.

The board reviews the minutes of the previous board meeting (2026-05-22)

Motion: McCoy moves to approve the minutes of previous board meeting 2026-05-22
Second: Sayeed seconds
Abstain: Catharina and Ruth abstain
All others approve

Anne-Marie joins the meeting at 8:10.

Anne-Marie presents the financial health of the organisation to the board.

Duane presents a fundraising update to the board. Lots of promising discussions happened at the UN Open Source Week.

McCoy presents an update from the License Committee on the following licenses:

Motion: Carlo moves that the Board follows the recommendation of the License Committee and approves the CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible as Legacy, Supersede prior version.
Second: Catharina seconds
All others approve

Motion: Carlo moves that the Board follows the recommendation of the License Committee and approves the Python-2.0.1 as Legacy, Supersede prior version.
Second: Catharina seconds
All others approve

The board discusses the case of translations of approved licenses. One of the main issues is that the board cannot certify translations and in many cases check if the translations are valid.

Motion: McCoy moves to adopt a policy that the board will not approve translations for approved licenses.
Second: Anne-Marie seconds
All others approve

Motion: Carlo moves that the Board follows the recommendation of the License Committee and reject the Открытый Пакет ПО license as this is a translation of the ISC license which is already approved.
Second: Catharina seconds
All others approve

Duane presents plans to collaborate with a number of partners to organise License Clinics in 2027.

Duane, Tracy, Ruth, and Sayeed present informal feedback about the UN Open Source Week and the opportunities for the OSI. Staff will provide a report at the next board meeting.

Tracy reminds the board that we will meet face to face in Halifax on September 24.

Tracy adjourns the meeting at 09:07 a.m. Pacific Time US.