Board Meeting 2021-08-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 August 2021 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) Review and approve past minutes
 * 3) * Board_Meeting_2021-07-26
 * 4) Pretalx / Pretix services for FOSS4G and Local Chapters
 * 5) AGM planning
 * 6) Update on OGC OSGeo MoU
 * 7) Update HOT MoU
 * 8) DOI for Projects
 * 9) GEO Participating Organization contact points registration
 * 10) Request of OSGeo contribution for JRC Report
 * 11) Update on the Open Source Solutions overview (graph) initiative
 * 12) OSGeo projects websites is lacking the information about the OSGeo project officer

Minutes

 * Presiding: Till
 * Scribing: Till / Angelos
 * Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Michele, Helena, Till, Vicky, Astrid
 * Guests: Luca Delucchi
 * next meeting 03.10.2021 14 UTC

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2021-07-26
 * ACTION: Angelos to start the voting on Loomio (DONE)
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/mkIsTAW9/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-07-26

Pretalx / Pretix services for FOSS4G and Local Chapters

 * Luca Delucchi proposes OSGeo to be a provider for Pretalx/Pretix Services for the community
 * Pretalx/Pretix Services are used already by local chapters and also by global FOSS4G:
 * SAC to install on OSGeo servers or
 * ask developers to provide the service for
 * us or use the Hetzner service (as used by FOSS4G 2021)
 * FOSSGIS uses hosted service by developer
 * ACTION: Till proposes to contact the developer and ask for model for OSGeo (so that every local chapter can use the service) - Astrid will do ;-)
 * ACTION: put the item on next month agenda and re-discuss (DONE)

AGM planning

 * Recording of the Board part of the video - still open
 * Angelos to record this today and also delivers connecting slides
 * each presenter of OSGeo board can do his/her slides on his/her own
 * discussion about publishing and watching the video together - agreed to meet on Jitsy and view together with community
 * published on 14th of September
 * how is the feedback from the community - are videos coming in?
 * Astrid sent emails to all local chapters/projects and asked for uploading videos with their contributions (deadline 31.08.2021)
 * enhance text at FOSS4G program https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/

Update on OGC OSGeo MoU

 * recording of MoU with OGC/OSGeo and will be integrated into AGM
 * discuss draft in meeting next time

Update HOT MoU

 * person to sign it on HOT side will sign it soon, mention this on AGM

DOI for Projects

 * see MOSS DOI https://zenodo.org/record/5140319#.YRuRkIgzaUk
 * Update: Peter Löwe mentioned this and will talk about this on AGM as well
 * discuss on later board meetings / code sprint

GEO Participating Organization contact points registration

 * Angelos shows the form for contacting points
 * Helena proposes to name just 2 persons: Angelos and Codrina volunteer

Request of OSGeo contribution for JRC Report

 * Angelos received request from JRC : Ask for short text about what OSGeo thinks about INSPIRE
 * Angelos forwarded to private mailing list and asks for board contributions
 * Till has a look at it and comes back to Angelos (on board private list)
 * Draft of Angelos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WOp2gYry2H7u9VQI6PrLzB_8HGJkGribfTHfazDeXLk/edit?usp=sharing

Update on the Open Source Solutions overview (graph) initiative

 * Codrina shares ideas and plans about their project
 * now collect informations of solutions and supported standards
 * Review issue 109

OSGeo projects websites is lacking the information about the OSGeo project officer

 * Vicky created a prototype: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/109
 * Astrid proposes to postpone the topic to the next meeting

IRC Log

 * no log, Will be a meeting on jitsi

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2021-10-03