Chair's Board report for the 1st quarter of 2026

[Donald Dale Milne]

Chair's Board report for the 1st quarter of 2026:
    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.  We did receive some interest in using our data from people writing personal software.

    I have recently reviewed our ongoing efforts for our main project of cataloging comics data and found that we have about 330 indexers who had changes approved during the quarter.  This is about a dozen less than the previous quarter.

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

Policy Coordinators' report:    
    No report was received.

Reservations Coordinators' report:
    The Coordinators had no requests to increase members reservation limits this quarter.

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

Documentation Coordinators' report:
    There is currently a small backlog of changes for Policy Votes, including entering the changes from the Feature Committee report.  We have made minor changes for clarity and link improvements.

Mailing List Administrators' report:
    There were no new abuses of any of the mailing lists this quarter.

Treasurer's report:
    No report received.  As no Board members volunteered for the Treasurer position for 2026, I will provide some oversight of our accounts and a year-end accounting again, as well as dealing with the taxes with our accountant.
End-of-quarter balance: $61,566.08 USD

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.  We have also had some work from other contributors on building a robust API.

- Don Milne