Board Meeting 2020-12-07

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 07 December 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_2020-11-30
 * 5) Review of 2020 Board period and offboarding
 * 6) OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint News item
 * 7) Apache-OGC-OSGeo Code Sprint planning (Feb 2021)
 * 8) Next Community Sprint invitation
 * 9) Communication Board-Mailing-list
 * 10) Communication charter members mailing list https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/charter-members
 * 11) Review action items
 * 12) please add items

Minutes

 * Presiding: Angelos
 * Scribing: Astrid
 * Attending: Helena, Michael, Victoria, Angelos, Astrid, Codrina, Tom, Till (late)

Review and approve past minutes
https://www.loomio.org/d/d19srE7Q/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-11-30

Review of 2020 Board period and offboarding

 * challenging time due to pandemic, looks like there is less time due to the pandemic
 * limitations of virtual
 * work is distributed, everybody is doing things
 * good discussions and successful motions
 * it was fun to be in the board
 * FOSS4G big descission on refunding the event
 * Successful virtual AGM (let's do it always virtual)
 * Communication with OGC / ISO

ideas for board activities
 * be better prepared for the meetings
 * make offboarding meeting part of the board activity. It is good to review and take tome to say goodby to leaving board members

general ideas for the future
 * more mails, mails to charter members, local chapters
 * get people from all of the world involved
 * Limesurvey - What is the community thinking about OSGeo, ideas (short survey)
 * charter member election
 * promote nomination earlier and remind, promote nomination on the lists charter/projects
 * project psc - invite them to get charter members if there are not charter members already
 * board election
 * in advance reach out to people personally and on the list to find more candidates
 * work on the vision / position of OSGeo / better communication
 * reach out to the middle east - this area is not visible at the moment

OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint News item

 * https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/100 News item
 * AE Ticket and Draft
 * mention Feb 2021 for next code sprint

Apache-OGC-OSGeo Code Sprint planning (Feb 2021)

 * Angelos / Tom are involved
 * Meeting about organization is coming
 * no exact time yet
 * registration & co via OGC
 * Wiki page at OSGeo wiki as usaual for OSGeo information
 * Mail to projects TODO Tom (review board)

Communication Board-Mailing-list

 * please use the board mailing list for non private communication. We are very active and this may not be visible from the outside

Communication charter members mailing list

 * https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/charter-members
 * postponed to next meeting with the new board

Review action items

 * postponed to next meeting with the new board

Actions

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

IRC Log

 * http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-12-07.log