Board Meeting 2020-02-24
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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 24 February 2020 at 16:00 UTC through IRC, 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
- f2f Meeting - https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hacBIYOAEA/
- QGIS Summer camp, Summer school, Contributor meeting and Conference - application for sponsorship
- Request W3C Web mapping workshop, Montreal June 15-17 [1]
- FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding [2]
- GSoC 2020, Importance of that program.
- Express official board support for OSGeo participation at EGU Data Help Desk, proposed motion - OSGeo board supports OSGeo participation at EGU Data Help Desk with Peter Loewe coordinating the effort for OSGeo
- ISO/TC 211 liaison [3]
- MapServer Budget Request 2020 as sent by Steve Lime on 21st of February (https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/OSGeo-2020-Budget)
- Board meeting preparation: How to rank topics before the meeting takes place
- Add more agenda items here...
- very low priority
- What to do with members with no name, no bio on the website?
- What to do with members that have avatar, but no uploaded image (the search page is use the uploaded image)
Minutes
- Presiding: Till
- Scribing: Till, Angelos
- Attending: Till, Tom, Helena, Angelos, Michael, Vicky
Review and approve past minutes Board_Meeting_2020-01-27
MOT 1: Approve past meeting minutes Board_Meeting_2020-01-27
- Angelos: +1 (initial motion)
- Tom: +1 (seconded)
- Helena: +1
- Till: +1
- Michael: +1
- Vicky: +1
- Motion passed during the meeting
- Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/KotSwUyQ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-01-27
face-2-face meeting 2020
- In 2020 we plan 2 1-day f2f meetings:
- One f2f meeting will take place in Athens on Sunday, 24. of May (day before the OSGeo code sprint starts)
- the 2nd will take place around FOSS4G in Calgary
- f2f meeting boilerplate wiki page: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2020-05-24
QGIS Summer camp, Summer school, Contributor meeting and Conference - application for sponsorship
- ACTION: Till to contact and point to OSGeo possibilities on funding events
Request W3C Web mapping workshop, Montreal June 15-17 [1]
- Peter is looking for OSGeo representation in the context of the W3C work with MapML
- Tom checks, whether participation is possible for him, otherwise ask Daniel Morrissette
- ACTION: Tom to answer Peter on his email
FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding [2]
- Cleared. Board decided to offer seed, Till already reported to LOC FOSS4G Europe 2020
GSoC 2020, Importance of that program.
- Vicky wants to stress the importance of this programme
- Unfortunately the participation declines over the past years
- Helena proposes to postprone this topic to our f2f meeting, which is agreed by all
Express official board support for OSGeo participation at EGU Data Help Desk
- MOT2: OSGeo board supports OSGeo participation at EGU Data Help Desk with Peter Loewe coordinating the effort for OSGeo
- Helena: +1 (initial motion)
- Angelos: +1 (seconded)
- Tom: +1
- Till: +1
- Michael: +1
- Vicky: +1
- Motion passed during the meeting
- Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/VQ9lcCXy/osgeo-board-support-for-osgeo-participation-at-egu-data-help-desk-with-peter-loewe-coordinating-the-effort-for-osgeo
ISO/TC 211 liaison
- Deferred to next board meeting when Victoria can better elaborate
+ Till to ask Victoria, if that is okay (done via telegram)
MapServer Budget Request 2020 as sent by Steve Lime on 21st of February
- MapServer budget request on together 5.300 US $ [4]
- The board has approved 2k for MapServer on January.
- Proposal:
- Let MapServer start with the 2k
- Hint them on other possibilities for Travel Granting
- Let them come back once they spent their budget and re-discuss the topic with the board
- ACTION: Till to contact Steve Lime (done)
Board meeting preparation: How to rank topics before the meeting takes place
- Short discussion on how to do that
- Angelos proposes, that we do not need a formal way to that
- Discussion postponed to f2f meeting
Website
- What to do with members with no name, no bio on the website? / What to do with members that have avatar, but no uploaded image (the search page is use the uploaded image)
- website should be on agenda for f2f
links
[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-January/012551.html [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-January/012558.html [3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-January/012553.html [4] https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/OSGeo-2020-Budget
Actions
- Till to contact QGIS Summer camp organizers and point to OSGeo possibilities on funding events
- Tom to answer Peter on his email (W3C Web mapping workshop)
- Till to contact Steve Lime (done)