DDEV Advisory Group Meeting 2024-11-06

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Previous meeting: July 3, 2024
Next meeting: January 8, 2025 (2-hour annual review and planning meeting)

Agenda

• Turn on recording, ask for a minutes-taker
• Robert Douglass will hopefully speak about OSP work on DDEV marketing and sponsorship
• Cary Gordon overview of governance strategies for open source

Recent Updates

• DDEV v1.23.4, v1.23.5 releases. Upcoming v1.24.0 with PHP 8.4.0, minor defaults changes.
• See recent Nov and Oct newsletters

Financials

Financial Summary:

• We have about $10,000 in the bank.
• Our income Is averaging about $3300/month.
• Our primary expense is contract services (Stas), $3000-$4000/month
• We are pausing OSP's $1600/month
• We have lost 2 significant corporate contributors in the last couple of months. A third very significant contributor gave notice that they'll probably be stopping in April, 2025.
• We haven't closed any new significant contributors.

DDEV Foundation Profit and Loss Aug-Oct 2024.pdf
DDEV Foundation Profit and Loss Oct 2024.pdf
DDEV Foundation Balance Sheet 2024-11-05-22_29.pdf
DDEV Foundation Profit and Loss YTD 2024-11-05-22_28.pdf

Anything on anybody's mind!

Meeting Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1706rgH4TAVt_6QvOL6gdUSolfPWnqb9bSWEx3Huw3q8/edit?usp=sharing

Recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmFWLxMhYE