Board Meeting 2022-09-26

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 26 September 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_2022-08-27
 * 5) Meet with SmartGEO Expo group
 * 6) Project trademarks
 * 7) GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)
 * 8) OSGeo EU - ESA
 * 9) GeoForAll website updates
 * 10) Website
 * 11) FOSS4G 2022 budget questions
 * 12) Research Organization Registry entry
 * 13) Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework
 * 14) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Michele
 * Scribing: Angelos
 * Attending: Michele, Codrina, Adam, Vicky, Angelos, Michael, Marco, Rajat
 * Guests: Eric (SmartGEO Expo), Luca

Board_Meeting_2022-08-27

 * Motion passed on Loomio. https://www.loomio.com/p/mz5eFTSA/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-08-27

Meet with SmartGEO Expo group

 * Introduction to SmartGeo Expo (5 mins)
 * Invitation for an OSGeo member to represent OSGeo
 * Includes trip & accommodation
 * MoU discussion
 * Vicky might be able to join the event, else Sanghee can represent. (Mexico does not need visa for tourism)
 * Start discussions during this year’s event.
 * ACTION: Board to decide who is going to represent within 1 week (Done, Vicky will attend).

Project trademarks

 * https://www.osgeo.org/legal-information/
 * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IP_Issues_Discussion_Document
 * Example from QField
 * Legal process, justify the trademark
 * Cost is increasing depending on country number
 * ACTION: Angelos to ask previous board members involved in OSGeo trademark (Done).
 * ACTION: Angelos to e-mail to Paul. ask for some research regarding cost (Done).
 * Wiki page, procedure on how to do this

Website

 * Discuss: Member pages (hide members without filled profile)
 * Action: Project's update officer's/representative
 * Post Action: Generate automatically the list of project officers
 * Discuss: Statement on report slide mentions that: "From the committees' pages you will find the missions, names of the people involved, and links to the working documents." That is not true.
 * Post Action?: Work the committees similarly as projects. Where officers can be assigned, and active members of the committee can be listed.
 * Discuss: Charter member pages: User name + last name.===OSGeo EU - ESA===
 * Discuss: Use tags on news items (to help out with the Annual report).
 * Discuss: Auto move the old un-format-able "Biography" (Now Mission) to the format-able Biography.
 * News Vs Community news

FOSS4G 2022 budget questions

 * Work to finalize budget
 * One sponsor went directly to OSGeo. (balance after surplus)
 * Money from JRC (half from 2021, half from 2022) Proposal for LOC to keep most part of this money since they did proposal + deliverables. To be decided after surplus numbers are known.
 * Travel grant money (balance after surplus)

Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework

 * There is a number of projects in the queue
 * ACTION: Contact the committee about status.

GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)
Moved to e-mail/next meeting

OSGeo EU - ESA
Moved to e-mail/next meeting

GeoForAll website updates
Moved to e-mail/next meeting

Research Organization Registry entry

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-September/013122.html
 * Moved to e-mail/next meeting

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2022-10-17