Board Meeting 2023-08-29

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 29 August 2023 at 13:00 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_2023-07-25
 * 5) Local Chapter Brazil - formalization and recognition by the OSGeo board
 * 6) FOSS4G 2024 Belem International
 * 7) Community Sprint 2023 venue cost
 * 8) EU CRA directive
 * 9) Funding request from Geocamp 2023
 * 10) opengis harmonization update
 * 11) Accept mappyfile to OSGeo Community Project status
 * 12) Invitation of the OSGeo president to FOSS4G-ASIA 2023 Seoul
 * 13) gvSIG support letter for sciences award
 * 14) UNGGIM
 * 15) OSGeo - AGU MoU: Opportunity for renewal
 * 16) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Codrina
 * Scribing: Vicky, Mike, Angelos
 * Attending: Codrina, Angelos, Michael, Marco, Ariel, Rajat, Vicky
 * Guests: George Porto, Jorge Sanz, Andrea Trovant

Review and approve past minutes

 * Motion passed on loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/dnigIcFY/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-07-25

Local Chapter Brazil - formalization and recognition by the OSGeo board

 * Need to start the legal entity and then apply to become an official chapter.
 * Can be done in parallel

FOSS4G 2024 Belem International

 * Tatiana could not attend
 * Reviewing the submitted budget
 * https://drive.google.com/file/d/1br2HhO2BYMdfX5XgvXb_sm1KM27Br21Q/view
 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1xuox5Xt_OXK4MA2ApwZRQO_onspDfxQlpSQ0ndPgDpk/edit?usp=sharing

Community Sprint 2023 venue cost

 * Unexpected payment for the room
 * We will wait feedback from ESA (early September)

EU CRA directive

 * Expected from the board a document/blog/announcement about the issue
 * Active discussion on mailing list, several documents are being listed.
 * Follow up information by Marco
 * https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/cyber-resilience-act-impact-assessment
 * ACTION: Marco: start drafting with references (ask Luis for notes from community meeting)

Funding request from Geocamp 2023

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-August/013352.html
 * MOTION: to be opened on Loomio, for one week.
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/mudT5BqG/motion-to-approve-funding-request-from-geocamp-2023-for-3000-euros

opengis harmonization update

 * An invoice has been issued

Accept mappyfile to OSGeo Community Project status

 * MOTION: to be opened on Loomio.
 * Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/LZvGn7oT/motion-to-accept-mappyfile-to-osgeo-community-program

Invitation of the OSGeo president to FOSS4G-ASIA 2023 Seoul

 * Rajat and Marco are potentially available to travel.

gvSIG support letter for sciences award

 * MOTION to approve letter of support
 * +1 Marco
 * +1 Rajat
 * +1 Vicky
 * +1 Codrina
 * +1 Angelos
 * +1 Mike
 * +1 Ariel

Motion passed during the meeting.

UNGGIM

 * Moved to next meeting

OSGeo - AGU MoU: Opportunity for renewal

 * Moved to next meeting

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2023-09-26