Board-Meeting-2023-04-05

=Coordinates=


 * Date: Thursday, 2023-04-05
 * Time: 17:00-17:30 UTC
 * Video conference at https://meet.jit.si/XSF-Board-2023-04-05 (no account needed, simply visit that URL)

=Agenda=

Returning Business

 * IETF MIMI
 * Talk to Matrix project?
 * DMA
 * Editors Update?

New Business

 * Sponsorships - how can we revive this?
 * Does CommTeam need to request access to the Reddit and Facebook accounts on XMPP from Ludovic even we are not affiliated officially?
 * XSF & XMPP grows even we might do not recognize. What should we continue, stop, do differently and consider for the future?
 * Do we list Board meeting links, if so where?
 * Add license for website content - Is there an required action and whom could do it? https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/issues/407
 * We are invited: Inlaws Podcast - 15th nov 2023 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Berlin)
 * Eddie organizes around https://linuxinlaws.eu/ podcast invitation in Q4 2023
 * Please add it to the time to the XSF Calendar.
 * Please also let me know if you want to participate (and I kindly ask to join as I am quite limited to technical discussions) - let me know if you should also ask from the Community.
 * I will prepare the communication preparations.
 * Monal wants to join the Planet Jabber RSS feed
 * Edward wants to mention how difficult it is to organise within the XSF Board on meetings, communication between meetings and calendar and wishes that we could agree on a way / platform (use of Google calendar, trello no xmpp chat for discussions on the side?) forward to get this a (single) modern setup.
 * Edward requests the 15$ / per sprint-participant SCAM support for a sprint in June 23
 * Praises again to wurstsalat rendering my organisation chart proposal: https://xmpp.org/about/xmpp-standards-foundation/

Date of Next Meeting

 * Date and Time: Thursday, May 4, 2023 @ 17:00 UTC.
 * Location: XSF chatroom
 * See https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board-Meeting-2023-05-04

= Minutes =

Call to Order
Board members present: Ralph, Eddie, Matthew, Peter, Arc

IETF MIMI WG / MLS / DMA

 * finding common ground with Matrix might not work out in practice
 * Matrix protocol requirements are different from anything else
 * federation with two competing s2s protocols would be difficult
 * gateways would be ncessary if we don't have a common s2s protocol
 * would be either XMPP or Matrix (or define a new protocol * silly!)

MLS
* people from the Dino team (Rafael, etc.) * Daniel has said he can assist, too * Matthew is in touch with them * Peter volunteers to help * AI: Matthew to start email thread with the relevant parties
 * we need to define an MLS profile for XMPP
 * some work has been happening
 * one requirement in DMA is that if there's e2e then it should not be degraded
 * but it should be optional

Editor Team update

 * Kev has processed some issues and worked on some tooling
 * scripts to review PRs and publish
 * can be run locally
 * publish to Docker registry
 * bulk of the work now is doing all the triage (also a script for that)
 * just doing the triage makes the other tasks trivial
 * Peter has more cycles now to help

Infrastructure Team

 * Jonathan is working on mailman etc.
 * Edwin can restore DNS

sponsorships
* example: https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/ * Eddie created brainstorming pad at https://pad.nixnet.services/K-DVXLFUSxaF4liewf0Smw#
 * we've always worked on a small budget
 * haven't been assertive about seeking sponsors
 * most past sponsors have been software vendors in the XMPP space
 * we could also seek out grants from large organizations
 * what would we need / want to spend money on?

marketing

 * Facebook account?
 * Reddit account?
 * Ludovic created those
 * we could create our own accounts

license for website content

 * https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/issues/407
 * should be straightforward

Inlaws podcast

 * Ralph or Matthew should do it

Meetings

 * Eddie and Peter to coordinate

SCAM

 * The team has budget
 * Board approval not needed for expenses within that budget