Bluap

Present: Herman, Benjamin, Martin, Shirielle, Olivier

Objective: 

Joomla Health Checker, PBF and GSoC updates.

Item discussed:

- Health Checker: demo and website ready for public feedback. PR on the way to show implementation. Target is soon after the release of 6.1 so it can be discussed and hopefully included in 6.2.

- PBF: issue with the Holopin account, in resolution.

- GSoC: Joomla accepted as mentoring organization for another year (yeah!) 

https://community.joomla.org/gsoc.html

Blog post

Action Items:

Contact Carlos Camara to see how we can provide GSoC and Academy students a discount on his

Attendees:  Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Serge Billon, Viviana Menzel, Brian Teeman, Dan Atrill, Emmanuel Lemor
Shared ideas in advance because they couldn't join: Herman Peeren and Dan Atrill

What did we talk about

This was our usual chat meeting to collect ideas and find out what everyone's going to write for the March issue. Like every month I'm amazed and humbled by the never ending stream of ideas our authors come up with. We have a good number of great article proposals in the issue plan for March.  

The meeting lasted a little under an hour.

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Date: 19. February 2026
Time: 19:00 UTC, Total time of meeting: 1 hours
Participants: Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor, Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu, Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger, Outreach DC - Richard Gosler, Secretary - Angie Radtke

Discussion outline

Treasurer

• Report on the current financial situation with an outlook for the coming years
• Breakdown of the most important annual expenses
• A discount at Venable was secured thanks to the efforts of Emmanuel Lemor and Angie Radtke.

Production Department

• Sigrid Gramlinger reports on successful releases for Joomla 5.4.3, 6.0.3, and 6.1.0-beta1 with feature freeze.
• We look forward to welcoming new release manager candidates for 6.2 soon.
• Proposal for Generative AI Policy for code contributions accepted and will be published.

Outreach

Duration:  5 mins (shortest ever, it is carnival, mardi gras)

Attendees
Sigrid Gramlinger, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Gary Barclay, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Richard Fath, Stefan Wendhausen, Viviana Menzel

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Attendees: Hannes, Christiane, Brian, Alikon, Krishna Ghandi, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 45 minutes - Discussed 2 issues on the agenda, Talked about handling feature requests in the future (moved to discussions) - Thank you. Next Meeting:  March 16th, 2026 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC