Board Meeting 2020-06-29

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 29 June 2020 at 16:00 UTC through IRC, 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_2020-05-25
 * 5) ISO TC211 liaison update
 * 6) OGC memberships
 * 7) * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/82
 * 8) Feedback from FOSS4GUK 2020
 * 9) Feedback from FOSS4G Calgary 2020 LOC
 * 10) Update on GitHub sponsors and Open Collective (e-mail from Alyssa Wright)
 * 11) Request for partnership from ajesh.org
 * 12) Offer from Microsoft for Licenses and Resources
 * 13) AGM
 * 14) Call for sponsorship

Minutes

 * Presiding: Angelos
 * Scribing: Astrid
 * Attending: Mike, Vicky, Angelos, Codrina, Victoria, Helena, Astrid, Tom
 * Guests: Regine Obe

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2020-05-25
 * Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XGJaTRAM/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-05-25

ISO TC211 liaison update

 * [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/68
 * form got filled out form and Victoria sent to the ISO delegate
 * Two ISO/TC211 members were assigned as our contactes. They are Serena Coetzee and Reese Plews.

OGC memberships

 * OGC memberships
 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/82
 * members of the OGC committee are not active anymore.
 * ACTION: Tom contact the existing committee, confirm if they are interested in continuing. Mail to the Standard mailing-list to look for volunteers. Ask Athina whether she is interested.

Feedback from FOSS4GUK 2020

 * it was a great event

Feedback from FOSS4G Calgary 2020 LOC

 * 
 * ACTION: Angelos to setup a doodle poll for f2f meeting and reach out to CC

Update on GitHub sponsors and Open Collective (e-mail from Alyssa Wright)

 * ACTION: Angelos to reply to Alyssa about current status (Done)

Request for partnership from ajesh.org

 * We should wait for a reply about moving the request on the public mailing list before taking any action.

Offer from Microsoft for Licenses and Resources

 * Microsoft reached out to us, asking if we want support through licenses (Office 365 etc)
 * Angelos answered already. No need for licenses but open source contributions or sponsorship
 * Regine Obe mentioned that a couple of windows licenses for buildbots might be nice or an Azure instance for building
 * ACTION Angelos will create a list where Windows licenses are needed and reaches out to Microsoft

Call for sponsorship

 * Mail was send out by Tom Kralidis and Jody Garnet
 * Also will go to announce list
 * ACTION Astrid will send the mail to osgeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors

AGM

 * We should run a virtual AGM at end of August / start of September
 * topic for f2f
 * inform community in advance
 * ACTION: Astrid create AGM wiki page and slides pdf https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2020 (Done)

Actions

 * Move action items to todo action list (Done)
 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/

IRC Log

 * http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-06-29.log