Board Meeting 2020-02-24

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.

Current items

 * 1) roll call
 * 2) * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * 3) Review and approve past minutes
 * 4) * Board_Meeting_2020-01-27
 * 5) f2f Meeting - https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hacBIYOAEA/
 * 6) QGIS Summer camp, Summer school, Contributor meeting and Conference - application for sponsorship
 * 7) Request W3C Web mapping workshop, Montreal June 15-17
 * 8) FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding
 * 9) GSoC 2020, Importance of that program.
 * 10) 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
 * 11) ISO/TC 211 liaison
 * 12) MapServer Budget Request 2020 as sent by Steve Lime on 21st of February (https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/OSGeo-2020-Budget)
 * 13) Board meeting preparation: How to rank topics before the meeting takes place
 * 14) Add more agenda items here...
 * 15) very low priority
 * 16) What to do with members with no name, no bio on the website?
 * 17) 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
+ Till to ask Victoria, if that is okay (done via telegram)
 * Deferred to next board meeting when Victoria can better elaborate

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)

IRC Log

 * http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-02-24.log