General Assembly
#MauticGA A Forum for Collaborative Decision-Making and Strategic Planning in the Mautic Community.
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Closed Captions will be available during the call.Call recording
The call will be recorded and the recording made available to members after the meeting.In accordance with section 3.2.1 of Mautic's governance model, all members are hereby summoned to Mautic's General Assembly to be held virtually on 11th July 2024.
The General Assembly has the following powers:
- To elect and remove members of the Community Council and Team Leads
- To propose the forming or disbanding of Teams
- To adopt pricing tiers for membership
- To propose changes to this governance model
Reference: https://contribute.mautic.org/governance/governance#3-1-powers-of-the-general-assembly
Voting will open on 1st July 2024 and will close at the commencement of the General Assembly meeting.
Documentation will be attached to the meeting when available, including a full agenda.
Please use the Proposals section if you would like to propose motions for discussion during the General Assembly.
Please note, the meeting will take place in the context of the Mautic Conference Global event, but the Zoom link will be shared here for access to interact with the meeting process.
Mautic General Assembly Agenda
Welcome [ 13:00 - 13:05]
Welcome to the first full General Assembly meeting.
Project Lead's report [ 13:05 - 13:15]
Project Lead Ruth Cheesley will deliver a short report on the last year in Mautic.
Team Lead reports [ 13:15 - 13:35]
Each Team Lead will deliver a short update on their team's work over the previous year.
Education Team [ 13:15 - 13:20]
Favour Kelvin will present the report for the Education Team.
Marketing Team [ 13:20 - 13:25]
Sven Döring will present the report for the Marketing Team.
Product Team [ 13:25 - 13:30]
Mattias Michaux will present the report for the Product Team.
Community Team [ 13:30 - 13:35]
Ekke Gümbel will present the report for the Community Team.
Finance and fundraising update [ 13:35 - 13:45]
Dominique De Cooman will share a finance and fundraising update.
Voting [ 13:45 - 14:00]
In this part we will review the results from the poll distributed prior to the General Assembly.
Vote to approve financial report (2023) [ 13:45 - 13:50]
The Legal and Finance team has produced a report on the 2023 financial activity for acceptance by the Council. This vote is to adopt the report as an accurate historical record.
Vote to approve proposed 2025 budget [ 13:50 - 13:55]
Mautic's budget for the coming year is proposed by the Council based on existing and projected income. This vote is to accept that budget.
Vote to continue with membership tier pricing and adopt updated 2024 Big Mac Index values [ 13:55 - 14:00]
Mautic enables individuals to become a member for $100 per year, and uses the Big Mac Index to prorate the amount required to become an individual member and a Partner. Companies can become a member at the following tiers:
- Community, $1,200 per year
- Bronze, $5,000 per year
- Silver, $10,000 per year
- Gold, $15,000 per year
- Platinum, $20,000 per year
- Diamond, $30,000 per year
This vote is in two parts:
- To continue with the current price points for individual and corporate membership,
- To formally adopt the latest update to the base dataset and values from the Big Mac Index used to determine the pro-rated values for individual membership, which can be found in the first tab at https://mau.tc/big-mac.
Report from the Council [ 14:00 - 14:10]
The Council will share a short report on their activities over the previous year and future plans.
Any other business [ 14:10 - 14:25]
Any other items of business will be included here, such as community motions.
Close and date of next meeting [ 14:25 - 14:30]
Bringing the meeting to a close and deciding the date for the next General Assembly meeting.
Meeting Minutes
Attendees
- Ruth Cheesley
- Ekke Gumbel
- Jan Linhart
- Favour Chibueze
- Leon Oltmanns
- Achilles Poloynis
- Madlen Friedrich
- Mattias Michaux
- Mike Van Hemelrijk
- Jonas Ludwig
- Patrick Jenkner
- Abhisek Mazumdar
- Pratik Upadhyay
- Dirk Spannaus
Apologies
- Norman Pracht
- Dominique De Cooman
- Prateek Jain
- Andy Towne
Notes
Report from Ruth:
- becoming independent, maintain financial stability
- new governance model
- read the Open Startup Reports! and annual report (via Mautic blog)
- Mauticon Global
- Mauticon 23 in India (technically in 2024 :)
- Mautic 5 and 5.1
- Award
- Donations to downstream OS projects (10% of our budget)
- Free Trials
- UX/UI
Education Team (Favour Chibueze):
- New User Documentation platform + content
- M5 docs
- new contributors & onboarding
Product Team (Mattias)
- M5
- 5 minor releases for m4 in 2023
- 53 new contributors in 2023 - but way too few mentions in releases!
- 1200+ PRs across all projects, 900+ in mautic/mautic in the last year
- There are many PRs which have been open for a long time - we need to find a way to address these.
- 245 new issues created, 185 were closed in the last year.
Community Team (Ekke)
- dominated by Events
- MCG
- Continental (India)
- Sprints - Vienna, Belgium - next between now and Lisbon, in-person maybe September, maybe Germany. Sprints are focused around teams (e.g. product, education, marketing and community) to work on specific tasks and projects together.
- Other
- Attend Conferences & Exhibitions
- Forums & Social places
- Local Communities
- Ambassadors
- Meetups
- Local Landing Pages - almost got there but blocked by the website tech, hoping to have this deployed as part of the new website project
Marketing Team (Sven)
- Created an overall marketing strategy to grow Mautic and reach out to more people.
- Supported the commication of the Mautic project becoming independent and collaborating to ensure it was commnicated consistently
- How we can grow membership
- Supporting the Mautic Trials marketing
- Need to grow the team so we can implement the strategy - contributors welcome!
- Lots of firefighting and short-notice/adhoc - we need better processes so it's not so ad-hoc.
Finance and fundraising (Ruth)
- Written report is published under proposals
- Legal fees
- Transition to Open Collective
- Trademarks
- Budget approval now by Council (initially Leadership team)
- Focus on Fundraising - also lots of effort
- Trials not yet great in terms of revenue generation
- Sponsorship scarce for events, but working on it
- Limited wiggle room in expenses
Voting results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OpPjVTIabghwJtogGWEW7DPji1wYNYZzx7s_tcqpvwc/edit?usp=sharing all motions were accepted with one abstention on each.
Report from the Council (Favour)
- Governance: Refining Mautic's governance model to ensure clear decision-making processes and effective leadership.
- Financial Stability: Guiding Mautic toward financial sustainability through fundraising initiatives and exploring revenue streams.
- Marketing and Community Outreach
- Project Oversight: Providing guidance and support to Mautic's development teams, ensuring projects align with strategic goals.
- Community Development: Fostering a thriving Mautic community by improving communication, contributor onboarding, and team structures.Strategic Planning: Developing a clear vision and roadmap for Mautic's future, outlining short- and long-term goals.
- Events and Communication
- Operational Improvements
- Future Goals
- financial stability and growth
- amplified marketing
- mautic.org overhaul
- Strengthening community bonds
- more interactive General Assembly meetings
- operational efficiency
- modified hiring and payment policy
Any other business
- none -
Close and date of next meeting
* 19th June, 2025 1pm UTC
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