Open Source Matters, Inc.

Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting

Date: 2026-10-29
Start Time: 18:00 UTC
End Time: 19:54 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour, 54 minutes

Attendees:

• President - Elisa Foltyn

• Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor

• Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu

• Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger

• Outreach DC - Richard Gosler (left early, around 19:40)

• Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

Apologies:

• Operations DC - Carlos Cámara

Proxies

• Emmanuel Lemor for Carlos Cámara

Discussion Synopsis:

Treasurer

• The statements for September month have been prepared.

• The Axxess Lab invoice has been

Participants
Make it Happen session at JWC 2026, Potsdam, 17 October 2026:
Sigrid Gramlinger, Brian Teeman, Sabine Volmert, Angelika Prox-Dampha, Florian Bauer

Things are moving again

At the Make it Happen session in Potsdam, five of us met to discuss how to bring the Joomla Certification Program back to life. We agreed to keep it as simple as possible.

Our approach

• Start with the Administrator certification only.
• Keep it low-level and don’t overengineer it. The focus is on the exam itself.
• Set up a public directory of certified Joomlers.
• Taking the exam will cost a fee, so the certification carries real value.
• Each certification is tied to a Joomla major release, and every certified person gets a personal badge with their name.

Next steps

Participants: Jenn, Torsten, Martin, Rona, Olivier, Heiko, Stefan; 

• 5.4: branch is in security fixes only mode now
• 6.2: Working on all RTC PRs this week
• 5.4/6.3: all PRs are classified for rebase in the next days
• 6.3: A motion regarding the election of the release managers is currently being prepared
• in general: We collected ideas, how to improve testing quality

Duration: 16mins

Attendees:

Sigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Harald Leithner, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Llewellyn van der Merwe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath, Viviana Menzel

Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger)

Sigrid, Hermann, and Brian took part at the Open Source CMS Conference in Utrecht. Many new connection, for example a documentation cooperation with other CMS. Also meeting discussion about Hackathon at the Cloudfest.

Accessibility and Usability Team (Christiane Maier-Stadtherr)

1. STF - Make-It-Happen in Potsdam with: Barbara Assmann, Cynthia, Christiane, Yannick Gaultier, Claudia Weber-Lenk, Robert Deutz. No new members.
2. STF - The Claim “Make Joomla Accessible” is wrong. It should be “Make Joomla Compliant to WCAG 2.2 AA
3. The Team Leader position of the Accessibility and Usability team is still

Date: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Time: 16:00 UTC
Duration: 1 hour

Attendees: Louise Hawkins, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Anja de Crom, Viviana Menzel, Emmanuel Lemor, Herman Peeren, Serge Billon, Dan Attrill and Richard Gosler.

What Did We Talk About?

The Joomla Community Magazine team met for our monthly kick-off meeting to discuss plans and ideas for the November issue.

We also introduced a new regular feature for our meetings: Community Pulse.

Community Pulse is an opportunity to look at the conversations happening across the wider Joomla community, identify recurring questions and challenges, and explore how the magazine might help address them.

This month's research highlighted several topics, including website security, AI, upgrades and extension compatibility, and practical questions about working with Joomla. The