Board Meeting 2023-01-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 January 2023 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_2022-12-29
 * 5) FOSS4G 2023 LOC joint statement with OSGeo
 * 6)  OSGeo_Budget_2023
 * 7) On boarding pendings
 * 8) Executive positions
 * 9) org.opengis name usage by GeoTools
 * 10) Mailing lists and GDPR
 * 11) OSGeo security initiative; similar model to code-sprints: Require a CVE to participate. Priority emergency funding. Secondary preventative measures.
 * 12) OSGeo sponsorship prospectus
 * 13) GISTAM 2023
 * 14) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Angelos
 * Scribing: Vicky
 * Attending: Vicky, Codrina, Angelos, Marco, Tom, Mike, Ariel
 * Guests: Regina

Review and approve past minutes'

 * Board_Meeting_2022-12-29
 * Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/d/AI4FXrNU/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-12-29/1

FOSS4G 2023 LOC joint statement with OSGeo

 * Situation not seen too critical.
 * Get immediate information if the situation changes.
 * How do others perceive the situation?.
 * Invite the LOC to our next meeting for an update. Perhaps send a (monthly) status update on the private mailing list.
 * ACTION: Codrina to draft an email about the joint statement.

OSGeo_Budget_2023

 * Moved to next meeting on Thu Feb 2nd 16:00 UTC

On boarding pendings

 * Ariel reports access ok
 * Discussion about strategic plan, update or review
 * Primary location for OSGeo Documents: NextCloud, Wiki, Gitea

Executive positions

 * We need all board members present to discuss this topic.

org.opengis name usage by GeoTools

 * Long technical side discussion on PSC meetings.
 * They are pinning themselves to an old version of the GeoAPI library because of often API breaks.
 * Apache projects that want to use both, have conflicts because GeoTools does not use the latest version.
 * Needs funding for the technical proposal, sponsors are not willing to fund technical dept as Jody described on e-mail.
 * Discussion is not only technical.
 * ACTION: Angelos to set up a meeting with GeoTools and Geoserver before call Apache
 * ACTION: Angelos to organize a call with Apache and OGC.

Mailing lists and GDPR

 * Regina reports that removal from mailman can be done.

OSGeo security initiative; similar model to code-sprints: Require a CVE to participate. Priority emergency funding. Secondary preventative measures.

 * Postponed to next regular meeting

OSGeo sponsorship prospectus

 * Postponed to next regular meeting

GISTAM 2023

 * Postponed to next regular meeting

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2023-02-27