Board Decision: Fields of Responsibility of Rachel Foucard 

Proposed at

17 September 2025

Decision owner

Rachel Foucard

Decision status

✅ Accepted, with 6 yes and 1 recusal

Attendance and voting 

Board Member Attendance Vote
Olivier Dobberkau Asynchronous ✅ Yes
Stefan Busemann Asynchronous ✅ Yes
Boris Hinzer Asynchronous ✅ Yes
Rachel Foucard Asynchronous ⚫ Recused
Martin Helmich Asynchronous ✅ Yes
Jana Höffner Asynchronous ✅ Yes
Thomas Maroschik Asynchronous ✅ Yes

Decision description 

Facts/Problem 

  • Rachel Foucard will no longer be responsible for the fields of responsibilities listed below:

    • Governance processes
    • Risk management
    • Product strategy governance

  • She proposes to assume some other fields described below:

    • Ethical & Legal Compliance

      About Trust-building and compliance with clear and unbiased regulations and code of conduct. TYPO3's contact for EU digital policy, incl. the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). What is expected Responsible for changes to the bylaws. Tracks and manages conflicts of interest in the Association's bodies. Sparring partner for Ombudsperson Team. Official contact to EU working groups (CRA); publish brief updates.

      Side note Regarding the Ombudsperson group, she proposes to remove her from the members so that she serves only as the Board's point of contact. This will require appointing new members in this group.

    • Diversity, Inclusion & International Development

      About Make TYPO3 welcoming and global; lower barriers for under-represented groups and regions.

      What is expected Board contact for DEI, internationalization and Community Expansion Committee. Track light KPIs for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; report to the Board.

  • Diversity, Inclusion & International Development is a new field and the Board has to validate it's consistency with the Association Strategy.

Objective 

  • The purpose of this decision is only to assign Rachel new fields of responsibilities.
  • This decision is not intended to reassign her previous responsibility portfolios to other members of the Board; that may be addressed in a separate resolution.

Obligations to cooperate 

  • Other Board members will have to take over the previous fields of responsibilities (to be redistribute in another decision)
  • Some fields of responsibilities may also be removed from the Board responsibility list (to be defined in another decision)
  • Regarding the Ombudsperson group, Rachel proposes to remove her from the members so that she serves only as the Board's point of contact. This will require appointing new members in this group.

Financial and human resources impacts 

  • For 2025: Board member compensation will cover the time spent on the responsibilities listed above,
  • For 2026: costs related to serving as the official contact to the EU working groups for the CRA (meetings, travel expense) will need a separate budget. Rachel will prepare a budget application.

Resolution/Petitum 

  1. New fields of responsibilities for Rachel:

    1. Ethical & Legal Compliance

      About Trust-building and compliance with clear and unbiased regulations and code of conduct. TYPO3's contact for EU digital policy, incl. the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

      What is expected Responsible for changes to the bylaws. Tracks and manages conflicts of interest in the Association's bodies. Sparring partner for Ombudsperson Team. Official contact to EU working groups (CRA); publish brief updates.

    2. Diversity, Inclusion & International Development

      About Make TYPO3 welcoming and global; lower barriers for under-represented groups and regions.

      What is expected Board contact for DEI, internationalization and Community Expansion Committee. Track light KPIs for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; report to the Board.

  2. Remove Rachel Foucard from the Ombudsperson group members so that she serves only as the Board's point of contact. This will require appointing new members in this group.

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