Board Meeting 2022-04-25

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 April 2022 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) appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * 3) Review and approve past minutes
 * 4) * Board_Meeting_2022-03-28
 * 5) OSGeo Budget 2022
 * 6) Boundary condition of the open source software foundation with respect to transition of software to services.
 * 7) e-mail account policy
 * 8) Kart Project's Org Stipend for the GSoC 2022
 * 9) Geospatial World Forum
 * 10) FOSS4G 2022
 * 11) GeoLIBERO clarifications
 * 12) Inactive members-
 * 13) PDAL on #osgeolive 2022 (time allowing)
 * 14) Add your topic here

Minutes

 * Presiding: Michele
 * Scribing: Marco
 * Attending: Marco, Michele, Angelos, Michael, Rajat, Vicky, Adam
 * Guests: Regina, Luca, Brian

Review and approve past minutes

 * Board_Meeting_2022-03-28
 * Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/mPFXgZ2f/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-03-28

OSGeo Budget 2022

 * Motion approved, we can now operate normally
 * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 has been finalized.
 * https://www.loomio.org/p/neBqcF9Y/motion-to-approve-osgeo-2022-budget

Boundary condition of the open-source software foundation with respect to the transition of software to services

 * Jody brought this up and is asking the board if we’re ok to include or endorse SaaS
 * We agree that If the code used in the SaaS (Software as a Service) is deployable on its own instances then it can be treated as a project.
 * The service is not the interesting part, the deployable code is.
 * The projects wanting to be incubated are to prove that they are deployable

E-mail account policy

 * In the past, there were already requests for @osgeo.org accounts. If everyone would have one real account, it would burn all SAC hours
 * We need to address the cost-benefits by asking SAC if there are resources
 * We need to make sure there is a clear policy
 * Regina says definitely we do not do real mailboxes
 * We are not doing aliases either

Kart Project's Org Stipend for the GSoC 2022

 * If they do it they should do it as a donation
 * We should ask them if they want to join OSGeo

Geospatial World Forum

 * Travel and stay expenses for the representative (Luca) of OSGeo are covered as if it was a board member since the board asked.

FOSS4G 2022

 * Late with tickets registrations since there was a DooS attack on the system
 * No posters, instead lightning talks
 * About 400 talks
 * All smooth besides registration

GeoLIBERO clarifications

 * If they do not have a local chapter then that is much welcomed
 * Spread awareness using the OSGeo Announcements or News or Discuss lists (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/News_Queue)
 * Review if the initiatives and events align with existing projects and initiatives and join hands

Inactive members

 * How do we deal with 100 people that did not vote for over 2 years?
 * If there is no participation in voting then some kind of warning can be issued
 * Important to consider that if there are any changes in email addresses leading to missing the email notifications
 * Good to do it on personal note instead of group announcement
 * There shall not be different classifications of retirement
 * Thinking on the active members that didn't vote in at least the last 2 years. Probably there was an e-mail change, (or other some valid reason of not participating). We should reach out at a personal level to clarify.

PDAL on OSGeoLive 2022

 * Issues in debain packaging of pdal (https://pdal.io/)
 * Conda can’t be used on OSGeoLive
 * What exactly is required from board? (considering PDAL is not an OSGeo affiliated project)
 * Considering it as a technical problem, a solution can be figured out internally for inclusion of PDAL in OSGeoLive

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

 * Board Meeting 2022-05-30