Meeting summary for 13 December 2023:
* *Updated: OpenVPN 2.6.9 release*
/In discussion with community members looks like next week would be
a good time for a 2.6.9 release./
* *Updated: forums topics*
/Pippin_ and novaflash reported lots of spam on the forums. rob0 got
into contact with ecrist, looks like anti-spam module had expired.
It was renewed./
/ecrist suggests to decouple authentication system for forums from
community PWM. almost all forum users never use other community
resources, so it makes sense./
/There is the pending migration from BSD to Linux for the forums
machine./
/In collaboration with ecrist, we'll look into arranging for OpenVPN
Inc. to provide a new VM and a license for vBulletin. ecrist can
then convert the existing forums content./
/RegardingCloudFlare
<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CloudFlare>; currently
not enabled on forums, but we will enable it on the new VM./
* *New: community funding*
/ordex has an initiative he wants to bring up regarding dev
resources to be added to community./
/This may tie into the donations topic./
/In short ordex convinced OTF (Open Tech Fund) to provide a "test
FOSS funding scheme" to OpenVPN./
/This would for example allow to pay for allocated hours for mattock
and cron2 to work on OpenVPN community tasks./
/This is to be worked out more and in collaboration between OpenVPN
Community, OpenVPN Inc., and OTF./
* *Updated: Donations for OpenVPN community*
/There is currently no place to donate money to the community, and
we do want to allow that./
/We need to figure out how to deal with that legally, and what
payment methods to accept and how./
/Probably credit card is a must. Maybe paypal as well. Bitcoin seems
to encounter some resistance in the discussions./
/We definitely do not want the donation thing to be forced - have a
mechanism to do it, but keep it out of the way./
/Random things yelled out (to investigate): legal entity? stripe?
paypal? creditcard? open collective? github sponsors? linux
foundation? sf conservancy?/
/ordex suggested that he will take a look in january to figure out
what legalities etc are involved in getting a legal entity for
OpenVPN community./
As always you're welcome to join at #openvpn-meeting on Libera IRC
network every Wednesday at 13:00 Central European Time.
Kind regards,
Johan Draaisma
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