Board Meeting 2025-07-01

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 01 July 2025 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

1. roll call
2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2025-05-27
4. TGP FOSS4G-Europe 2025 [1]
5. Request for Letter of Support: OpenSKIZZE-Praxis followup research project [2] requested by Dr. Alexander Hagg
6. GRASS Fiscal Sponsorship [3]
7. Feedback from LPS 2025
8. F2F at FOSS4G 2025
9. OSGeo and OSGeoLive Youtube channels
10. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Codrina
• Attending: Joana, Jeroen, Codrina, Angelos, Vicky, Tom, Rajat, Mike, Marco
• Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/LOT6UNHu/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2025-05-27

TGP FOSS4G-Europe 2025

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-June/013705.html
• No specific amount indicated.
• ACTION: Codrina to contact LOC and ask about the timing of the request. (Done)
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/kDTc93FH/motion-to-approve-tgp-financial-support-for-foss4g-europe-mostar-2025-in-quantum-of-4000-usd-

Request for Letter of Support - OpenSKIZZE-Praxis

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-June/013704.html
• There was no request for a letter of support from the QGIS PSC.
• ACTION: Codrina to draft a template letter for support (Done).

GRASS Fiscal Sponsorship

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-May/013696.html
• GRASS PSC has passed a motion to have NumFocus as fiscal host.
• GRASS GIS has been rebranded as GRASS.

Feedback from LPS 2025

• A lot of visibility, 6500 participants
• We should consider having a booth next time.

F2F at FOSS4G 2025

• No budget for the board members to travel to the global FOSS4G this year, because of budget constraints.

OSGeo and OSGeoLive Youtube channels

• Vicky managed to gain back control for the OSGeo and OSGeoLive YouTube channels.
• Regina is the contact for the OSGeoLive Youtube channel.

Actions

• See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2025-07-29