Board-Meeting-2023-04-05

• 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

Returning Business

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

• we need to define an MLS profile for XMPP
• some work has been happening

 * 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

• 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

New Business

Infrastructure Team

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

sponsorships

• 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

 * example: https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/
 * Eddie created brainstorming pad at https://pad.nixnet.services/K-DVXLFUSxaF4liewf0Smw#

• 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