Board Meeting 2021-10-03

This board meeting is scheduled Sunday 03 October 2021 at 13:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker. This is a 4h board meeting considered as F2F for FOSS4G 2021.

Current items

 * 1) roll call
 * 2) Review and approve past minutes
 * 3) * Board_Meeting_2021-08-30
 * 4) AGM outcome
 * 5) OSGeo Community Project check-in, request clarification on handling of platform applicants
 * 6) Feedback from GIZ/GEO
 * 7) B2B initiative (global chapter)
 * 8) Pretalx / Pretix services for FOSS4G and Local Chapters
 * 9) Update on OGC OSGeo MoU
 * 10) Elections preparations
 * 11) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding:
 * Scribing:
 * Attending:
 * Guests:

AGM outcome
Questions from AGM:
 * 1) In one session, yesterday, the suggestion came up to have a dedicated track on education at (local and global) FOSS4G. Is there a central place to keep track of such suggestions for the future LOCs ?
 * 2) Climate crisis is the major issue for humanity in the years to come. We saw a lot of talks concerning EO related to climate crisis, and this is good. Does the OSGeo foundation need to adapt to handle this topic more or differently ?
 * 3) What is the most active/preferred communication collaboration channel (short of issue-specific Git-based communications) that provides cross-pollination of users and developers? The osgeo community/communications page seems quite fragmented. Slack, email lists, social media, IRC chat...
 * 4) Are there any plans for comprehensive workshops, (1-2-3 days) where we could get up to speed with certain open source programs? We get all the good "teasers" during the conference, but we get stuck fast in the usage/deployment of tools. In this way we can as well get up to speed on how to contribute to those give projects.
 * 5) Does anyboday know if there's a community developing a cloud GIS with functionalities like ArcGIS Online? RStudio for instance has a complete cloud version which works the same than the desktop version?
 * 6) Are there resources with arguments/justification for convincing a private company or supported government agency to provide either direct sponsorship $$ support or donate/encourage developer time as "in kind"/"professional development"?
 * 7) At the beginning, you mention you need more people. Could you please precise in which part / domain or to do a specific task ?
 * 8) This is my first conference about OpenSource GIS (at work we use proprietary GIS software). From the exposure at this conference I have seen that there are LOTS of options and in some cases some solutions have specialized advantages and I can't tell what easily works together. Is there any kind of "family tree" of OpenSource GIS Developments that work together well or are derived from each other?
 * 9) Could we promote, be a member and participate without financing osgeo ?
 * 10) Could OSGeo push/fund cross-project development, such as a rerun of the WMS Shootout, or OGC Features API Shootout?
 * 11) Does OSGeo have a protocol for sponsoring, giving guidance, or even joining as an organizer about hackathons* ? *(promoted by organizations as government or companies that doesn't have a direct relation with OSGeo) Answered during AGM   Financial guidance
 * 12) Is the preference to generate sponsorship at the OSGeo level, or should individual projects also be trying to raise their own sponsorship?
 * 13) What is the process for submitting/proposing a project?
 * 14) Where should one find out more about contribution opportunities?
 * 15) Is there an aspect in the GIS/Geo world that you feel is missing in the current zoo of osgeo projects? Answered during AGM
 * 16) Could you comment on the GDAL funding, and how relations between Numfocus and OSGeo work in that case ? Answered during AGM
 * 17) Sorry. didn't read through the financial report, but how are finances generally going ? (thinking of the impact of cancelled conference etc) Answered during AGM

IRC Log

 * no log, Will be a meeting on jitsi

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2021-10-25