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# BackYourStack Meeting Notes

## Topics
- New landing page and design thoughts
- OSI's involvement
- Working in al-Jabbar
- Going forward

## Participants
- Pia Mancini - Open Collective
- Alyssa Wright - Open Source Collective
- Eric Berry - Codefund
- François Hodierne - Open Collective Engineering
- Guillermo Esparza - Open Collective Design 
- Nick Vidal - OSI
- Patrick Masson - OSI
- Josh - OSI
- Richard Littauer - Maintainer.io

## Live notes

- Opening from Alyssa

- Architecture Overview
    - This came out of the Sustain summit
    - https://docs.google.com/document/d/17nTqHDmTt4-ichVpucMJ5DE70Ozmoe83HWVOH-S9onQ/edit
    - For this section, our eyes were on the document, and work was put on those comments
    - Lots of discussion on the ROI for open source
    - Decided not to include a ton of metrics right now, just get the page out
    - [ ] @alyssa work with @RichardLitt to figure out feature projects
    - Someone will need to work on marketing in the long term marketing
- OSI
    - BYS is looking for quotes from OSI about the value of licensing, etc
    - They're happy to provide.
    - [ ] @alyssa ping them
    - OSI a bit fearful about openwashing closed-source software
    - Let's figure out what makes sense for OSI
    - What would be good would be to know what projects are _actually_ open source; OSI can help with that
    - [ ] @patrick work with us on what actually is open source and what isn't
    - [ ] @alyssa and @eric work on CodeFund as a featured Org
    - [ ] @alyssa get quote from Trivago and Zeit.co
        - None of these are using BYS directly, but they're investing in open source
        - That's OK