Board Meeting 2020-04-14

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 14 April 2020 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
   • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
2. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2020-03-30
3. FOSS4G 2020 (including members of ConfComm)
4. potential affects of COVID-19 to OSGeo 2020 budget

Minutes

• Presiding: Till
• Scribing: all
• Attending: Angelos, Tom, Till, Codrina, Helena, Astrid, Vicky, Victoria, Mike
• Guests: John Neufeld (FOSS4G 2020), Maria and Malena (FOSS4G 2021), Members of Conf-Commitee: Vasile Craciunescu, Mark Iliffle, Steven Feldman

Review and approve past minutes

Board_Meeting_2020-03-30

• Moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/OWJ7X9xD/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-03-30

FOSS4G 2020 status (including members of ConfComm)

• LOC has decided to cancel the event.
• 82k loss spent
• Convert sponsors to OSGeo sponsors?
• 250k to payoff the minimum of the contracts
  • 100 tickets for about 72k for ticket sales (easy to refund)
  • 58k from sponsors
• (How) can we share the loses?
  • Discussion postponed to a board decision based on final numbers
  • John cares about the final number ASAP
• What do do with sponsorship money
  • Codesprint sponsors is easy, because handled by OSGeo
  • FOSS4G 2020 sponsors is more difficult as they have a contract with Calgary LOC

Actions

• Astrid will ask Maria and ask UN Committee whether challenges 2020 will take place [Done]
• Till to check about backups and potential losses and agreements on BALOC 2021
• Move action items to todo action list [Done]
• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/

IRC Log

• none