Board Meeting 2021-11-29

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 29 November 2021 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_2021-10-25
 * 5) Accept new charter members for 2021
 * 6) Incubation application accepted for pygeoapi
 * 7) OSGeo / OGC Memorandum of Understanding update
 * 8) OSGeo Code Sprint 2022
 * 9) Review Action items
 * 10) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Till
 * Scribing: Till, Angelos
 * Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Vicky, Tom, Helena, Michele, Till, Astrid
 * Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2021-10-25
 * Motion passed on loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/3RgDXWNx/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-10-25

Accept new charter members for 2021

 * CRO email
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/PDvTgkVN/motion-to-approve-new-charter-members-for-2021-based-on-the-recommendation-of-cro
 * ACTION: Astrid will inform via email (similar to last year)
 * Inform people better, what actually charter membership means, in order to encourage more people
 * ACTION: Vicky to review the membership page on the website

Incubation application accepted for pygeoapi

 * Email from incubation committee
 * Board to approve vote
 * ACTION: Angelos to prepare vote on loomio and inform the board (Done)
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/rCovNYaw/motion-to-accept-pygeoapi-for-incubation

OSGeo / OGC Memorandum of Understanding update

 * Overview: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020
 * Issue tracking: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80
 * Draft Exhibit A: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020/Draft
 * Tom reports on the actual state (as can be seen in the WIKI, link above)
 * ACTION: Angelos to prepare Loomio Vote for board to approve (Done)
 * Discussion that we need a Committee / Standard-Committee
 * Ask project members that depend on OGC
 * Tom suggests to ask at standards-list for a new committee and attract people to join (after Loomio vote passes)
 * ACTION: Tom/Angelos to prepare a press release along with OGC
 * Review Committee guidelines for this!
 * Motion to approve on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/7U9AXuLf/motion-to-approve-osgeo-ogc-memorandum-of-understanding-update

OSGeo Code Sprint 2022

 * Discussion what happens with next code sprint?
 * Common Code Sprint OGC/Apache and re-use room from OSGeo-Code Sprint
 * ACTION: Tom to check Joanna on OGC Code Sprint planning
 * Angelos happy to pass to other volunteers for F2F Code Sprint (Covid restrictions are not permitting F2F Code Sprint in Athens early 2022)

Actions

 * See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
 * Angelos points to the fact, that we as Board are responsible for some pages, probably we need a work session to update them
 * ACTION: All to review older tickets (e.g. number below #100) and update/close them

IRC Log

 * no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2021-12-27