Board Meeting 2021-01-25

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 January 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_2020-12-28
 * 5) * Board_Meeting_2021-01-18
 * 6) 2021 Budget approval
 * 7) OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues
 * 8) FOSS research Foundations
 * 9) OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up
 * 10) response to GDAL support email
 * 11) response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up?
 * 12) GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4?

Minutes

 * Presiding: Till
 * Scribing: Till, Mike
 * Attending: Codrina, Michele, Helena, Astrid, Till, Mike, Angelos, Tom, Vicky (later), Jody (guest for the GDAL topic)

Board_Meeting_2020-12-28

 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XBW42QJZ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-12-28

Board_Meeting_2021-01-18

 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/6R7BcrlA/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-01-18

2021 Budget approval

 * in budget call next year make clear, that there is no money to take over (again!)
 * small change in GRASS GIS budget
 * cut budget for SAC for 1 contract (4400 US $) and ask them to come back during the year if this is needed.
 * dedicate 5000$ for travel grant programme and look if FOSS4G Argentina is onside, no support for regional events
 * board agrees with the budget
 * Action: Angelos to update the WIKI and open the motion on loomio (done)
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XenD58Tj/review-and-approve-osgeo-budget-for-2021

OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues

 * Astrid proposes to create a working group on sponsorship as it is hard to get that finalized during the board meetings
 * Astrid proposes to work on the already written tickets during the code sprint
 * Camptocamp requested whether development is valuable as sponsorship, discussion on how to deal with this.
 * Work is hard to value, because many people contribute in several ways to projects
 * important to keep the door open for companies sponsoring OSGeo with money
 * Action: Astrid to create a doodle for the first meeting for the sponsors group

FOSS research Foundations

 * Astrid forwarded an email from Martin Michlmayr who sent a questioniare and asked us for help in his work on a report on FOSS Foundations
 * Action: Codrina to have a closer look on this questionaire

Response to GDAL support email

 * discussion on this email, Angelos proposed to receive sponnsorship via the OSGeo github repo
 * probably a problem for a lot of groups in our community, proposal to setup a kind of structure to support these groups in case of such an emergency
 * topic is connected to the sponsorship issue (see above)

OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up

 * meeting on collaboration OSGeo with HOT
 * goal of HOT is to map 1 billion people
 * scope of co-operation is to support this project on a long term basis (financing is only for 5 years save)
 * preparation of MoU
 * frequent meeting every 3 months to keep in touch

Response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up?

 * Helena asks whether there was a response
 * Action: Helena to follow up here

GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4?

 * take up in an email (brought up by Jody)
 * some of our projects are based on Elastic Search, so probably need to get rid of it

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * the meeting was held on Jitsy