Board Meeting 2023-01-30

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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 January 2023 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
  2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
  3. Review and approve past minutes
  4. FOSS4G 2023 LOC joint statement with OSGeo
  5. OSGeo_Budget_2023
  6. On boarding pendings
  7. Executive positions
  8. org.opengis name usage by GeoTools [1]
  9. Mailing lists and GDPR
  10. OSGeo security initiative; similar model to code-sprints: Require a CVE to participate. Priority emergency funding. Secondary preventative measures.
  11. OSGeo sponsorship prospectus
  12. GISTAM 2023
  13. Add your topic here

Minutes

  • Presiding: Angelos
  • Scribing: Vicky
  • Attending: Vicky, Codrina, Angelos, Marco, Tom, Mike, Ariel
  • Guests: Regina

Review and approve past minutes'

FOSS4G 2023 LOC joint statement with OSGeo

  • Situation not seen too critical.
  • Get immediate information if the situation changes.
  • How do others perceive the situation?.
  • Invite the LOC to our next meeting for an update. Perhaps send a (monthly) status update on the private mailing list.
  • ACTION: Codrina to draft an email about the joint statement (Done).

OSGeo_Budget_2023

  • Moved to next meeting on Thu Feb 2nd 16:00 UTC

On boarding pendings

  • Ariel reports access ok
  • Discussion about strategic plan, update or review
  • Primary location for OSGeo Documents: NextCloud, Wiki, Gitea

Executive positions

  • We need all board members present to discuss this topic.

org.opengis name usage by GeoTools

  • Long technical side discussion on PSC meetings.
  • They are pinning themselves to an old version of the GeoAPI library because of often API breaks.
  • Apache projects that want to use both, have conflicts because GeoTools does not use the latest version.
  • Needs funding for the technical proposal, sponsors are not willing to fund technical dept as Jody described on e-mail.
  • Discussion is not only technical.
  • ACTION: Angelos to set up a meeting with GeoTools and Geoserver before call Apache (Done)
  • ACTION: Angelos to organize a call with Apache and OGC.

Mailing lists and GDPR

  • Regina reports that removal from mailman can be done.


OSGeo security initiative; similar model to code-sprints: Require a CVE to participate. Priority emergency funding. Secondary preventative measures.

  • Postponed to next regular meeting

OSGeo sponsorship prospectus

  • Postponed to next regular meeting

GISTAM 2023

  • Postponed to next regular meeting

Actions

IRC Log

  • no log, a jitsi meeting

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