Board Meeting 2022-05-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 May 2022 at 15:00 UTC through Jitsi, 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_2022-04-25
 * 5) OGC / OSGeo MOU update
 * 6) FOSS4G 2022
 * 7) Bolsena 2022 Funding Request
 * 8) CRO: voting statistics for past elections, retiring process of charter members

Minutes

 * Presiding: Michele Tobias
 * Scribing: Adam Steer
 * Attending: Michele Tobias, Adam Steer, Vicky Vergara, Angelos Tzotsos, Codrina Ilie, Tom Kralidis, Rajat Shinde, Marco Bernasocchi
 * Guests: Anne Ghisla, Brian Hamlin

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2022-04-25
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/x9flupy0/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-04-25

OGC OSGeo MoU

 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80
 * The board needs to review the press release. OSGeo and OGC to deliver joint keynote at FOSS4G, so there is some pressure.
 * Two sections in particular need review / adding: "About OSGeo", and a quote from OSGeo.
 * Tom asked the board to consider the message OSGeo wants to give in the MoU press release.
 * MoU release time - both end of June and at FOSS4G discussed, end of June seems to be the consensus
 * Comments on the draft press release will be accepted until 3 June, at which point the press release will be returned to OGC for final edits and release.

FOSS4G 2022

 * Discussion of board travel plans for FOSS4G Firenze.
 * A decision was reached to hold a face to face meeting on Saturday 27 August at the same time as the code sprint
 * Codrina will ask the Firenze LOC if we can use a room at the code sprint venue.

Bolsena 2022 Funding Request

 * EU2000 is requested from OSGeo to assist a code sprint in Bolsena: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2022#OSGeo_Funding_Request
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/f8K3nQxN/bolsena-2022-code-sprint-funding-request

CRO: voting statistics for past elections, retiring process of charter members

 * Discussion about how to retire inactive charter members, meaning everyone who has not voted for 2-3 elections
 * We propose to contact all inactive charter members to initialise discussion about what they want to do.
 * Discussion about putting a page on the OSGeo wiki about voluntary retirement - and automatic/silent retirement (as exceptional procedure of 2022, and clarified for subsequent years)
 * Anne as CRO will then write on discuss list asking to contact CRO either to update the email, or to retire as per the procedure on the wiki

NASA discussion / open science meeting

 * Condrina reported on an informal meeting with ESA and NASA about open source communities at ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, attended by Codrina and Adam.
 * This sparked a discussion to follow up on meeting with the NASA TOPS program.

Actions

 * Board to review OGC/OSGeo MoU press release and make any comments by 3 June
 * Codrina will ask Luca (FOSS4G Firenze LOC chair) if we can use the code sprint venue for a board meeting
 * Anne Ghisla to prepare a page on voluntary retirement for the OSGeo wiki, board to approve before publication on wiki
 * Angelos to e-mail NASA about open science meeting


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

IRC Log

 * no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2022-06-27