Board Meeting 2022-10-17

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 17 October 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_2022-09-26
 * 5) Review Smart Geo Expo MoU
 * 6) FOSS4G 2023
 * 7) Geo-ethics Locus Charter
 * 8) GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal (2nd reminder)
 * 9) OSGeo EU - ESA
 * 10) GeoForAll website updates
 * 11) Website
 * 12) Research Organization Registry entry
 * 13) Elections and CoC
 * 14) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Michele
 * Scribing: Rajat
 * Attending: Adam, Angelos, Codrina, Michele, Rajat, Vicky, Marco
 * Guests: Brian Hamlin, Besfort Guri, Valmir (FLOSSK)

Review and approve past minutes

 * Motion to approve Board_Meeting_2022-09-26 open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/GFQhYd0n/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-09-26

Review Smart Geo Expo MoU
Link to the MoU draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1raqBOJv7yB7HWikUx3Pk8h3ypKbXfLxXRtSIY7w1pr4/edit


 * Updates: Description about cooperation between the stakeholders.
 * Two Liaisons are required to be nominated. Vicky is temporary liaison for OSGeo.
 * Signing ceremony is scheduled on November 3rd, 2022.
 * ACTIONS:
 * Review more previous MoUs to add a clause for promoting open-source and make it stronger.
 * One week for the board to review the draft and provide comments.
 * Vicky to reach out to the OSGeo Korea local chapter.

FOSS4G 2023
Guest: Besfort Guri, Valmir
 * Intent by the FOSS4G 2023 LOC to join the next board meeting (Oct 31, 2022) and present updates.
 * ACTION: Invite Co-chairs to the planned meeting.

Geo-ethics Locus Charter

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-August/013080.html
 * TODO: Review and approve the charter(https://ethicalgeo.org/locus-charter/) for signing
 * ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio.

GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal (2nd reminder)

 * https://gistam.scitevents.org/
 * Questions: What are their requirements from this partnership? Is it an MoU? Is it just a cross-promotion activity? Would they provide a booth or keynote?
 * ACTION: Codrina to send email with the questions

OSGeo EU - ESA

 * ACTION: Codrina and Marco to attend a f2f meeting in early November and update board about the discussion

GeoForAll website updates

 * ACTION: Vicky to present updates post FOSS4G Asia 2022 (Smart GeoExpo 2022)

Website

 * ACTION: Vicky to present updates post FOSS4G Asia 2022 (Smart GeoExpo 2022)

Research Organization Registry entry

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-September/013122.html
 * ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio
 * ACTION: Angelos to register OSGeo after motion is approved

Elections and CoC

 * TODO in Policy - Points to consider
 * Board/CRO can veto or block any charter/board nomination?
 * The list of nominations maybe be cross-checked by the CoC committee
 * Blacklisting procedure? Timeline?
 * ACTION: Vicky to schedule a meeting with the CoC Committee

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2022-10-31