Board Meeting 2019-10-28
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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.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- Board Meeting 2019-08-24 Face to Face Meeting Bucharest 2019
- Board_Meeting_2019-09-30
- Sponsoring Education activity from http://www.4onse.org project
- GeoNetwork code-sprint geonetwork openlayers migration sprint request
- FOSS4G Europe 2020 Valmiera Lativa July 2020 https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2019-October/005300.html
- more OSGeoLive usb dirves to spread - see https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
- Cameron, Ron, Reese request approval for setting up of a Lexicon Committee, as per https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2019-October/012337.html
- QGIS Funding request - see email
Minutes
- Presiding: Helena
- Scribing: Astrid
- Attending: Maria, Angelos, Astrid, Helena, Tom, Michael, Victoria
Review and approve past minutes
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
Status: Passed during meeting
Planning next meeting to approve new charter members
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)