Board Meeting 2022-12-12

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 12 December 2022 at 16:00 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_2022-11-28
 * 5) Project trademarks update
 * 6) MoU Template
 * 7) Renew MoU with UCGIS MOU_UCGIS
 * 8) MoU with GISwater
 * 9) Approve OSGeo Oceania TGP request
 * 10) OSGeo European Local Chapter
 * 11) Review Action items
 * 12) Communicate Sponsorship opportunities for 2022-2023
 * 13) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Angelos
 * Scribing: Rajat
 * Attending: Vicky, Michael, Codrina, Michele, Rajat, Angelos, Marco, Adam, Tom
 * Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2022-11-28
 * Motion passed on Loomio https://www.loomio.com/p/is5Z6rEG/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-11-28

Project trademarks update

 * Financial support is required for application process
 * Support can be provided in forms of tutorials or getting started process
 * Q: Is OSGeo Trademarked? (NextCloud documents or Quickbooks)
 * Q: Is FOSS4G trademarked?
 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/71
 * ACTION: Codrina to create a wiki page defining the process for getting started for the process
 * ACTION: Mike will explore the USPTO application process for Trademark (Done)

MoU Template

 * MoU Template
 * Board can discuss and approve so this template can be presented to organizations wishing to partner up with us.
 * ACTION: Resolve the comments and create a Loomio motion (Done)
 * Motion open on Loomio https://www.loomio.com/d/4h3JekD9/motion-to-accept-mou-template/1

Renew MoU with UCGIS

 * An existing MoU gives an opportunity to negotiate
 * Board reviews and provide modifications/add to the existing MoU
 * TODO: Add Level of commitment from the participating organizations
 * ACTION: Adam to translate the existing OSGeo-UCGIS MoU to the new proposed MoU template

MoU with GISwater

 * Since GISwater has a project joining as OSGeo Community Project
 * ACTION: Codrina to draft a response to GISWater

Approve OSGeo Oceania TGP request

 * Conference Committee has approved the motion (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-December/005885.html)
 * Approved by board during the meeting

OSGeo European Local Chapter

 * Local Chapter would help organizations working in Europe for collaborating with OSGeo
 * ISSUE: Missing liaison for the existing OSGeo European local chapter
 * ACTION: Codrina to communicate with the existing local chapter to know the status
 * Based on the response to action, next step can be finalized; (Can a new OSGeo Europe local chapter be started?)

Review Action items

 * Moved to next meeting
 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

Communicate Sponsorship opportunities for 2022-2023

 * Moved to next meeting with an invitation to Marketing committee
 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/106

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2022-12-29