Board Meeting 2023-02-27

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 27 February 2023 at 16:00 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_2023-01-30
 * 5) Executive positions
 * 6) OSGeo Standards Committee update
 * 7) OSGeo security initiative
 * 8) OSGeo sponsorship prospectus
 * 9) JRC meeting feedback
 * 10) org.opengis name usage by GeoTools
 * 11) GeoStyler code sprint
 * 12) GISTAM 2023
 * 13) Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
 * 14) Local Chapter Brazil
 * 15) GISRUK 2023 request for support
 * 16) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Mike
 * Scribing: Angelos
 * Attending: Mike, Rajat, Ariel, Tom, Angelos, Marco, Vicky
 * Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2023-01-30
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/yXiSuoMT/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-01-30

Executive positions

 * Postponed to next meeting

OSGeo Standards Committee update

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-February/013231.html
 * New committee, renamed from OGC committee to Standards committee.
 * Terms of Reference now approved from the committee
 * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Standards_Committee#Terms_of_Reference
 * Expecting the committee to get many members due to free membership
 * Motion to approve the Standards committee passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/PmKfEyVb/motion-to-approve-new-osgeo-standards-committee
 * ACTION: Angelos to move the motion to Loomio (DONE)

OSGeo security initiative

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-January/013209.html
 * similar model to code-sprints:
 * Require a CVE to participate.
 * Priority emergency funding.
 * Secondary preventative measures
 * Discussion on how this would work?
 * Do we need a group responsible to run this initiative?
 * Do we need a committee? A working group? Or does the Board address this on a case by case basis?
 * How much budget to assign to this initiative.
 * Move this to next meeting for further discussion

OSGeo sponsorship prospectus

 * Postponed to next meeting

JRC meeting feedback

 * FOSS4G 2023
 * European Track
 * Commission partnership: https://2023.foss4g.org/sponsors/partner_european_commission
 * status of OSGeo Europe
 * JRC open source solutions: Re3gistry and ETF
 * OSGeoLive
 * other opportunities
 * open source in EO
 * JRC work on EuroGEO and links with the OSS4gEO project
 * Other events
 * OGC Member meeting, Frascati, 20-24 February
 * Support to the Interoperable Europe Act
 * ACTION (Angelos): provide resources and interviews with OSGeo board/community members
 * To be further discussed at the next board meeting.

org.opengis name usage by GeoTools
Postponed to next meeting

GeoStyler code sprint

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-February/013229.html
 * Postponed to next meeting

GISTAM 2023

 * Postponed to next meeting

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

 * Postponed to next meeting

Local Chapter Brazil

 * Discussed about the options for starting/updating a local chapter.

GISRUK 2023 request for support

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-February/013230.html
 * Postponed to next meeting

New Meeting Schedule

 * Proposal: Last Tuesday every month, 1800 UTC

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2023-03-28