Board Meeting 2020-08-31

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 31 August 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_2020-07-27
 * 5) * Board_Meeting_2020-07-29
 * 6) Appoint CRO for 2020 elections.
 * 7) AGM planning
 * 8) https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
 * 9) AGM hosting platform
 * 10) https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2500
 * 11) AGM additional rooms
 * 12) AGM slide status
 * 13) GeoNode participation in NFDI4Agriculture consortium
 * 14) UN Open GIS - Geo-AI consultation request
 * 15) Microsoft meeting update
 * 16) FOSS4G 2021 planning update
 * 17) 1st Virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific
 * 18) Proceedings Inquiry

Minutes

 * Presiding: Till
 * Scribing: all
 * Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Till, Tom, Astrid, Victoria, Michael, Vicky
 * Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2020-07-27
 * Loomio motion: https://www.loomio.org/d/U6KsnzvW/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-07-27
 * Motion approved
 * Board_Meeting_2020-07-29
 * Loomio motion: https://www.loomio.org/d/1yl6AtrZ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-07-29
 * Motion pending

AGM planning

 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
 * ACTION: (Angelos, Astrid) mail to the projects and mail to all lists again with new time, platform and reminder to change the slides till 08.09.2020
 * Ask for rooms, ask for topics for the after discussion
 * Announce financial discussion - how can OSGeo finances can be saved
 * Did we send a mail to our partners?
 * New meeting on 09.09.2020 16 UTC

AGM hosting platform

 * https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2500
 * We will switch to zoom
 * Rooms?
 * in the mail we can mention that LC or projects can have a room before the meeting
 * after the meeting we the room for more OSGeo discussion and a Geobeer room
 * ACTION: (Till): sum up possibilities to zoom accounts and send it via email to board. (Michael) create account on zoom. Till to close SAC ticket
 * Need to record session and upload on youtube later

AGM additional rooms

 * X (depends on available rooms) rooms for projects 1h before the meeting takes places
 * one room after meeting for OSGeo topics and one “virtual geobeer” room

AGM slide status

 * FOSS4G
 * add slides about FOSS4G future Calgary/Argentina and RFC2022
 * 2022 Italien team would like to run FOSS4G, they are working on their bid
 * ACTION: Codrina to share a document for the conference committee.

GeoNode participation in NFDI4Agriculture consortium

 * GeoNode wants to participate in this consortium, a legal entity is needed
 * Codrina sends document that explains the obligations for OSGeo.
 * ACTION: Till and Astrid to read and sum up for the board

UN Open GIS - Geo-AI consultation request

 * 11. September UN Open GIS Artificial Intelligence for Geospatial - Consultation VTC
 * Angelos could join the meeting as OSGeo president
 * We should ask the Community about the activities in Geo-AI
 * ACTION: Mail and room before/at AGM

Microsoft meeting update

 * ACTION: Mike will create account for MS and provide to potential users (SAC)

Appoint CRO for 2020 elections

 * Make a LOOMIO ticket and approve Jorge and Anne as CRO’s
 * https://www.loomio.org/d/DxPmsgVe/appoint-chief-returning-officer-for-2020-member-elections-and-board-elections
 * Vicky helps CRO’s with statistics in order to see, who of the charter-members is inactive
 * After the approvement CRO will provide a schedule to discuss in the wiki
 * No help is needed from SAC

FOSS4G 2021 planning update

 * ACTION: Till to ask BLOC to join next board meeting

1st Virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-August/012743.html
 * ACTION: Astrid Contact local chapters/members in Asia to participate. / mail to discuss
 * https://uia.org/roundtable/2020/asiapacificfor

Proceedings Inquiry

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-August/012755.html
 * https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
 * https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/
 * ACTION: Astrid will contact person from TIB and provide contact persons form conferences, refer to link of ISPRS https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-08-31.log