Board Meeting 2020-04-14

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 14 April 2020 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_2020-03-30
 * 5) FOSS4G 2020 (including members of ConfComm)
 * 6) potential affects of COVID-19 to OSGeo 2020 budget

Minutes

 * Presiding: Till
 * Scribing: all
 * Attending: Angelos, Tom, Till, Codrina, Helena, Astrid, Vicky, Victoria, Mike
 * Guests: John Neufeld (FOSS4G 2020), Maria and Malena (FOSS4G 2021), Members of Conf-Commitee: Vasile Craciunescu, Mark Iliffle, Steven Feldman

Board_Meeting_2020-03-30

 * Moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/OWJ7X9xD/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-03-30

FOSS4G 2020 status (including members of ConfComm)

 * LOC has decided to cancel the event.
 * 82k loss spent
 * Convert sponsors to OSGeo sponsors?
 * 250k to payoff the minimum of the contracts
 * 100 tickets for about 72k for ticket sales (easy to refund)
 * 58k from sponsors
 * (How) can we share the loses?
 * Discussion postponed to a board decision based on final numbers
 * John cares about the final number ASAP
 * What do do with sponsorship money
 * Codesprint sponsors is easy, because handled by OSGeo
 * FOSS4G 2020 sponsors is more difficult as they have a contract with Calgary LOC

Actions

 * Astrid will ask Maria and ask UN Committee whether challenges 2020 will take place [Done]
 * Till to check about backups and potential losses and agreements on BALOC 2021
 * Move action items to todo action list [Done]
 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/

IRC Log

 * none