Board Meeting 2024-04-30
This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 30 April 2024 at 18:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on Loomio and actions on the OSGeo todo issue tracker.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- OSGeo BoF at FOSS4G Europe status - OSGeo meeting plans
- “How to Sponsor” text done, draft page on website
- EC funding for FOSS4G Europe 2024
- FOSS4G SotM Oceania TGP Request [1]
- FOSS4G 2024 Belem TGP Request [2]
- FOSS4G Hiroshima Seed Funding Terms in the Budget [3]
- GeoStyler code sprint funding request [4]
- MDM2024: Collaboration proposal [5]
- OSGeo deal with Geo Week 2025 Event (email from Carl Berndtson to board-priv)
- Utilization of a new room on meet.osgeo.org for local chapters [6]
- Executive positions (continued)
- Review pending actions
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: Vicky & Rajat
- Attending: Vicky, Angelos, Mike, Jeroen, Rajat, Ariel, Marco
- Guests: Jody
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2024-03-26
- Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/d/I5qTbG8U/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2024-03-26/1
OSGeo BoF at FOSS4G Europe status - OSGeo meeting plans
- Plenary on wednesday (15 minutes)
- We hope to discuss OSGeo EU ideas
- No specific plan for a F2F, we can plan an online meeting
“How to Sponsor” text done, draft page on website
- The text has been reviewed. It has been published.
- ACTION: Review the process to get notifications for expiring sponsors
- Discussion about offering FOSS4G sponsorship status through direct OSGeo sponsorship. (Jeroen will start a draft proposal)
- Idea about offering an even higher sponsorship level, targeting big organizations
EC funding for FOSS4G Europe 2024
- Need for a European OSGeo Chapter.
- Current sponsorship from EU organizations needs to go through a EU entity (currently EU local chapters).
FOSS4G SotM Oceania TGP Request
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-April/013520.html
- The TGP budget has already been spent for 2024.
- This would require a budget amendment.
- No motion was made to amend the budget.
- The board is considering to ask for TGP requests during the yearly budget planning time
FOSS4G 2024 Belem TGP Request
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2024-April/006118.html
- Already approved from the 2024 budget, no need for a motion.
FOSS4G Hiroshima Seed Funding Terms in the Budget
- It's a question for the conference committee: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2024-April/006119.html
GeoStyler code sprint funding request
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-April/013528.html
- This budget request was not submitted during the yearly budget planning time
- No motion to approve
MDM2024: Collaboration proposal
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-April/013519.html
- Moved to next meeting
OSGeo deal with Geo Week 2025 Event
- See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/136
- Moved to next meeting
Executive positions (continued)
- Moved to next meeting
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, Jitsi meeting