Board Meeting 2020-07-27

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 27 July 2020 at 16:00 UTC through IRC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Current items

 * 1) roll call
 * 2) * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * 3) Review and approve past minutes
 * 4) * Board_Meeting_2020-06-29
 * 5) AGM Annual General Meeting 2020
 * 6) Charter member elections planning
 * 7) Review action items from past meetings
 * 8) Certification from OSGeo
 * 9) UCGIS MoU update, GISc Body of Knowledge OSGeo Live chapter author needed
 * 10) Sol Katz Award 2020
 * 11) recognize geostyler as joining the osgeo community program

Minutes

 * Presiding: Till
 * Scribing: Angelos
 * Attending: Till, Angelos, Mike, Helena, Astrid, Tom, Codrina
 * Guests: Jody Garnett

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2020-06-29
 * Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/7FyWVKcj/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-06-29

AGM

 * Discussion about potential dates for a virtual AGM
 * AGM on thursday, 10th of September at 18:00 UTC
 * Discussion on platform (Jitsi or other).
 * ACTION: Till to discuss with Markus and SAC about hosting platform.
 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
 * Annual General Meeting 2020

Charter member elections planning

 * ACTION: Angelos to contact previous CRO team (Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla)
 * Potential elections kick off 15th Sept.

Certification from OSGeo

 * Post on Board mailing list
 * If someone wants to do it, we would support that effort but it shouldn't be done by the board. Perhaps a new committee and some volunteers?
 * ACTION: Astrid can write the response and forward to the discuss list

UCGIS MoU update

 * Helena is working with John Wilson on expanding open source geospatial in UCGIS GIST Body of knowledge and is looking for volunteer to write about OSGeoLive
 * ACTION: Angelos to bring up to the next OSGeoLive meeting

Sol Katz Award 2020

 * Jeff wrote a mail and would like to start the process for Sol Katz Award 2020
 * The award will be given at the end of AGM

Recognize Geostyler as joining the OSGeo Community program

 * GeoStyler OSGeo page

MOT1: Motion to recognize Geostyler as joining the OSGeo Community program
 * Angelos: +1 (Initial motion)
 * Helena: +1 (Seconded)
 * Till: 0
 * Tom: +1
 * Codrina: +1
 * Mike: +1


 * Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/Hp3Sxso8/recognize-geostyler-as-joining-the-osgeo-community-program

Review action items from past meetings

 * Angelos to send the Microsoft wish list soon
 * Astrid will send the mail to OSGeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors

Actions

 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
 * Till to discuss with Markus and SAC about AGM hosting platform.
 * Angelos to contact previous CRO team (Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla) about 2020 elections. (DONE)
 * Astrid to write the certification response and forward to the discuss list
 * Angelos to bring up UCGIS to the next OSGeoLive meeting. (DONE)
 * Angelos to send the Microsoft wish list. (DONE)
 * Astrid to send the mail to OSGeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors

IRC Log

 * http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-07-27.log