Chair's Board report for the 4th quarter of 2025

[Donald Dale Milne]

Chair's Board report for the 4th quarter of 2025:
    There was no new discussion of long-range goals for the GCD.

    There were no significant new contacts regarding commercial use of our data this quarter.

    I have recently reviewed our ongoing efforts for our main project of cataloging comics data and found that we have about 351 indexers who had changes approved during the quarter.  This is about two dozen more than the previous quarter.

    I have also received the following reports and am forwarding them to the Board.

Policy Coordinators' report:    

• A vote was held on allowing indicia printers' information to have a sourced field.

• Discussions on abbreviations in variant names and abbreviations in editorial jobs concluded and will be voted on in the 1st quarter of 2026.

• There were several discussions held that are currently inactive:
• If genres should be added to a sequence that don't apply to the feature as a whole.
• If strip collections should be grouped in single series.
• If Archie should be allowed to have have universes in the GCD.
• What is and what is not a story arc for GCD purposes.

Reservations Coordinators' report:
    The Coordinators acted upon at least one request to increase members reservation limits this quarter.

PR Committee / Social Media Coordinator's report:
    As noted last quarter, the PR Team is effectively defunct.

Feature Committee:
    The committees final report is still the subject of a motion to adopt, which is pending.

Documentation Coordinators' report:
    There is currently a small backlog of changes for Policy Votes.  We have also made minor changes for clarity and link improvements.

Mailing List Administrators' report:
    Several new members were placed on moderation the day after joining several lists, for forwarding spam e-mails.

Treasurer's report:
    No report received.  In fact, I have not heard from our Treasurer during this past quarter at all, despite sending him some e-mails.  It should be noted that no Board members volunteered for the Treasurer position for 2026, so I expect no further information during this year.  I will provide some oversight of our accounts and a year-end accounting again.  I also have the following information for the full year of 2025, which I will send to our accountant for tax preparation:
Income:    $27,419.00 (all donations, no ad revenue)
Expenses:    $4,662.95 (with the following breakdown):
                    2,508.29 - Hetzner server expense
                       263.71 - Cloudfare expense
                       161.82 - iPostal mailbox expense
                       119.00 - registered agent expense
                       324.94 - PayPal fees
                         75.19 - Chase Bank fees
                    1,185.00 - Rehmann accounting expense
                         25.00 - VOIP phone service expense
Year-end balance: $61800.83

Secretary's report:
    No report received yet but may send a supplementary report.

Editors' group report:

        The Editors did not add any new Editors during the last quarter.

Tech and SysAdmin Coordinators:
        Jochen has recently been working on updating several functions for our website.

- Don Milne