Board Meeting 2021-06-28

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 28 June 2021 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) Review and approve past minutes
 * 3) Accept the Mesh Data Abstraction Layer (MDAL) Project as an OSGeo Community Project
 * 4) Update on FOSS4G 2021
 * 5) AGM planning - Annual_General_Meeting_2021
 * 6) OSGeo - HOT MOU review
 * 7) Update on the GSoC Org Stipend From the OSGeo GSoC Admin Team
 * 8) NumFocus/GDAL update

Minutes

 * Presiding: Till
 * Scribing: Till
 * Attending: Angelos, Helena, Codrina, Vicky, Michele, Michael, Till, Tom (8 of 9), Astrid (later)
 * Guests: Maria (FOSS4G 2021), Ariel Antheni (FOSS4G 2021), Rajat (GSoC)

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2021-05-31
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/5ToKsQmW/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-05-31

Accept the Mesh Data Abstraction Layer (MDAL) Project as an OSGeo Community Project

 * https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal
 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2021-June/004354.html
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/dqMj5ZuE/accept-the-mesh-data-abstraction-layer-mdal-project-as-an-osgeo-community-project-

Update on FOSS4G 2021
Maria and Ariel (FOSS4G 2021) report:
 * FOSS4G Shop - If board agrees Maria will open a new FOSS4G shop and money goes directly to OSGeo. Nobody knows where money for old shop goes to
 * AGM Booked 1h for AGM, early in the morning
 * ACTION: Requests a video from Angelos about OSGeo (10 Minutes) for the opening.
 * Venueless will be used
 * Anita needs access to OSgeo bank acccount (PayPal), Micheal to do
 * Maria informs about status of programme, etc.
 * Board will receive codes for registration soon
 * Maria gives summary of the budget
 * Maria requests if board agrees on offering reduced tickets, that may reduce the outcome
 * Board agrees

AGM planning - Annual_General_Meeting_2021

 * Request for small videos and merge them together (projects, local chapters)
 * ACTION: Astrid and Angelos to make draft for the email, Angelos to send out
 * ACTION: Astrid to ask Volker Mische
 * OSGeo has a time slot
 * needs to be figured out in next meeting (July)
 * Vicky offers to cut the videos together

OSGeo - HOT MOU review

 * Angelos added it to agenda, email form Miriam and review the document
 * ACTION: Helena to copy the document to the WIKI (done)
 * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_HOT
 * approve on next meeting

NumFocus/GDAL update

 * Mike and Angelos joined the NumFocus/GDAL meeting
 * document uploaded in the nextcloud to be reviewed by board members

Update on the GSoC Org Stipend From the OSGeo GSoC Admin Team

 * Rajat send an email to participating organizations
 * 12 students will participate this year
 * Rajat asks what to do with the money google pays (400 US $)
 * GSoc will be able to present wotk on FOSs4G 2021, thanks FOSS4G 2021 team
 * Maria asks emails of participants in order to be able to add them as speakers
 * Board approves that projects can claim for the money and do what they want with it (to be better formulated by Helena and put on Loomio as a motion)
 * motion passed during meeting

IRC Log

 * meeting was on jitsi

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2021-07-26