Board Meeting 2023-12-26

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This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 26 December 2023 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
  4. Elections status
  5. OSGeo Budget 2024
  6. Joint OGC-ASF-OSGeo Code Sprint
  7. Annual sponsorship opportunities, reminder to sponsor osgeo
  8. Report back from representing OSGeo at foss4g-asia
  9. Join DPGA (Digital Public Goods Aliance)[1]
  10. Report of the UN Committee in the UNGGIM working group on Geospatial Societies
  11. Review pending actions
  12. Add your topic here

Minutes

  • Presiding: Angelos
  • Scribing: Vicky
  • Attending: Angelos, Ariel, Michael, Tom, Rajat, Vicky
  • Guests: Ivan, Jody

Review and approve past minutes

Election Status

  • Board Elections
    • Short campaigning period to start as all the nominees have accepted the nomination
    • 60 people did not submit their vote.
    • 25 people with invalid e-mail address

OSGeo Budget 2024

Joint OGC-ASF-OSGeo Code Sprint

Annual sponsorship opportunities, reminder to sponsor OSGeo

  • Added to call for budget, some response.
    • Many projects have “standing pages” for sponsorship which we can use?
    • Can check prior announce from previous years
    • ACTION: Jody make a call-for-sponsorship, send draft to discuss, and publish early January (Done)

Report back from representing OSGeo at foss4g-asia

  • Jody represented OSGeo at the event.
    • Keynote and interacting with politicians was slightly stressful but fine
      • Not very much awareness of OSGeo sponsorship
      • Opportunities for MOU with Project PLATEAU (need follow up)
      • Booth was out of the way, but productive for:
      • Setting up new local chapters (folks were not clear that they can just set up informally first, and then move on to recognition)
      • Joining OSGeo as a member; the sign in form was terribly hard for anyone to figure out (barrier to entry). The workflow is hard to difficult? Tom suggest looking at OGC page?
      • Jody did make some improvement to the form which will help: https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create
      • People specifically requested a video on how to do this (so they could pause)
      • Encouraging projects to join
  • ZOO-Project funding was not approved in time for the event, not even standing funds for an OSGeo project? Microsoft supported the project and was thanked.
  • ACTION: Angelos to follow up with ZOO PSC about an updated budget request (Done)
  • ACTION: Board to contact PLATEAU project.

Join DPGA (Digital Public Goods Alliance)

Report of the UN Committee in the UNGGIM working group on Geospatial Societies

  • Started participation on meetings
  • UN committee needs to get activated (web site updates, new chair approval)

Review pending actions

  • Review was done by Angelos

Actions


IRC Log

  • no log, Jitsi meeting

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