Board Meeting 2023-04-25

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 25 April 2023 at 18:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on Loomio and actions on the 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_2023-03-28
 * 5) MoU between OSGEO Foundation, FLOSSK (FOSS4G 2023 LOC) and Municipality of Prizren
 * 6) AGM preparations
 * 7) Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
 * 8) QGIS 2023 Code sprint
 * 9) Geo Week 2024​
 * 10) OSGeo Oceania Travel Grant
 * 11) OSGeo participation in the ODOK workshop
 * 12) Sponsor communication [todo:#154]
 * 13) BIDS 2023 Code sprint
 * 14) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Codrina
 * Scribing: Angelos
 * Attending: Michael, Codrina, Vicky, Angelos, Ariel, Rajat
 * Guests: Jody

Review and approve past minutes

 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/8CTRnEcD/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-03-28

MoU between OSGEO Foundation, FLOSSK (FOSS4G 2023 LOC) and Municipality of Prizren

 * Three party MOU
 * Needed for funding approval
 * Document shared from LOC
 * Motion to be done after we receive the document back.

AGM preparations

 * email already sent to discuss mailing list
 * shall we do this in Sept and just have a discussion at FOSS4G?
 * topics for discussion: Board report and then Sponsorship and FOSS4G
 * ACTION: Vicky to send an e-mail to discuss and projects mailing list with our current plan (Done)

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request

 * Shall we propose an MoU?
 * ACTION: Angelos to send the template and respond that we are open to collaboration (Done).
 * Terms of Reference document attached.

QGIS 2023 Code sprint

 * Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/BsmPZv98/motion-to-approve-5000-for-supporting-the-qgis-contributor-meeting

Geo Week 2024

 * Planning ahead for 2024
 * Are we interested in participating?
 * Vendor heavy event, not a lot of open source.
 * Low effort on our side.
 * Would be valuable if we have people to actually keep a booth for the event.
 * Table for now.

OSGeo Oceania Travel Grant

 * Are we prepared to support this local event once again?
 * They should submit a request and the board will consider.

OSGeo participation in the ODOK workshop

 * Financing the person to travel.
 * Estimate the cost and decide.

Sponsor communication

 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/154
 * ACTION: Mike to update the list
 * Cross list sponsors from postponed code sprint. Angelos to check with them.

BIDS 2023 Code sprint

 * November in Vienna. (https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/satellite-events)
 * We could have an OSGeo room during the entire event (6 - 9 nov), where we'll organise ourselves
 * We could have a booth - an OSGeo booth
 * Proposing tutorials (workshops) is also a good opportunity for our projects.
 * We could propose a Satellite Event (https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/satellite-events)
 * ACTION: Codrina to send an e-mail to the sprint mailing list (Done).

Actions

 * See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

IRC Log

 * no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2023-05-30