Board Meeting 2019-10-28

This board meeting is scheduled 28 October 2019 at 16:00 - 17:00 UTC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Current items

 * 1) roll call
 * 2) * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * 3) Review and approve past minutes
 * 4) * Board Meeting 2019-08-24 Face to Face Meeting Bucharest 2019
 * 5) * Board_Meeting_2019-09-30
 * 6) Sponsoring Education activity from http://www.4onse.org project
 * 7) GeoNetwork code-sprint geonetwork openlayers migration sprint request
 * 8) FOSS4G Europe 2020 Valmiera Lativa July 2020 https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2019-October/005300.html
 * 9) more OSGeoLive usb dirves to spread - see https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
 * 10) Cameron, Ron, Reese request approval for setting up of a Lexicon Committee, as per https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2019-October/012337.html
 * 11) QGIS Funding request - see email

Minutes

 * Presiding: Helena
 * Scribing: Astrid
 * Attending: Maria, Angelos, Astrid, Helena, Tom, Michael, Victoria

Board Meeting 2019-08-24 Face to Face Meeting Bucharest 2019

 * Meeting minutes not ready yet

Board_Meeting_2019-09-30
MOT1: Approve meeting minutes from Board_Meeting_2019-09-30
 * Angelos: +1 initial motion
 * Tom: +1 seconded
 * Maria: +1
 * Helena: +1
 * Michael: +1
 * Astrid: +1
 * Victoria: +1

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/AqweIJPn/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2019-09-30

Status: Passed during meeting

Sponsoring Education activity from http://www.4onse.org project

 * Feels too rush and not very detailed to be able to vote in favor.
 * ACTION: Maria to contact Massimiliano asking for more details and more formal proposal.

GeoNetwork code-sprint geonetwork openlayers migration sprint request

 * 10 days of effort is estimated
 * 2k project budget for 2019 not spent yet, we need to remind the project just need to get PSC to approve.
 * Please use the project funding first

FOSS4G Europe 2020 Valmiera Lativa July 2020

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2019-October/005300.html
 * the Local team is in process of forming
 * volunteers are welcome

More OSGeoLive usb drives to spread

 * We have received 1000 more usbs.
 * Many tickets to spread them on conferences (foss4g begum, foss4g finland ... looks like it works fine)

Cameron, Ron, Reese request approval for setting up of a Lexicon Committee

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2019-October/012337.html
 * The name keeps changing but it is an important initiative
 * Wondering why this has to be a separate committee from standards
 * Helena (mailing list): Standards not a formal committee, just a working group.
 * New committee needs a chair for the board to approve.
 * ACTION: Angelos to provide feedback to Cameron

QGIS Funding request

 * QGIS treasurer sent an invoice for 20k euros
 * The remaining QGIS budget for 2019 is 8000$ and 3000$ for developers meeting.
 * QGIS can ask for another funding request for 2020 when the new board forms.
 * ACTION: Michael to reach out to Andreas Neumann to tell him about the 11k for 2019

MOT2: Approve additional 3000 $ for QGIS budget for 2019 (reaching to a total of 11000$) that have not been used for the QGIS developer meeting 2019
 * Angelos: +1 initial motion
 * Michael: +1 seconded
 * Tom: +1
 * Helena: +1
 * Astrid: +1
 * Victoria: +1
 * Maria: +1

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/LEckd8ue/approve-additional-3000-for-qgis-budget-for-2019-reaching-to-a-total-of-11000-that-have-not-been-used-for-the-qgis-developer-meeting-2019

Status: Passed during meeting

Planning next meeting to approve new charter members

 * https://doodle.com/poll/2t63m5aiwub7e9vy

OSGeo Budget - Reminder about Budget 2019

 * Idea to write on the projects mailing list to remind projects to use the project budget for 2019
 * Action item for Astrid: Done: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/projects/2019-October/000207.html

Actions

 * Maria to contact Massimiliano asking for more details and more formal proposal.
 * Angelos to provide feedback to Cameron about Lexicon committee
 * Michael to reach out to Andreas Neumann to tell him about the 11k for 2019
 * Astrid: Mail to project mailing list to remind the projects of the budget 2019 (done Astrid 2019-10-28)

IRC Log

 * http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2019-10-28.log