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Board Meeting 2026-07-07

2026-07-07T17:53:40Z

Timlinux:

This board meeting is '''scheduled Tuesday 07 July 2026''' at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2026&month=07&day=07&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=250&p2=26&p3=49&p4=155&p5=16&p6=133 '''17:00''' UTC] through [https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard Jitsi], a record of motions is preserved on [https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board Loomio] and actions on the [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues OSGeo todo] issue tracker.

== Agenda ==

=== Current items ===

# ''roll call''
# ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
# ''Review and approve past minutes''
#* [[Board_Meeting_2026-03-31]]
# '' Approve GeoStyler as new OSGeo Project with Project Officer Jan Suleiman (Mike)''
# [https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/f/6737260 Ambassador Program Draft Contract]
# FOSS4G NA Board participation/outreach
# OGC Compliance and certification
# Board and gitea participation https://git.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo
# OGC Ambassador applications discussion
# ''Add your topic here. Please '''include what you expect from the board''', and include ''(your name in brackets)''!''

== Minutes ==

* Presiding:
* Scribing:
* Attending:
* Guests:

- FOSS4GNA - we discussed who from the board can attend (potentially Mike) and how OSGEO can participate in this regional event and other regional events. TBD if Mike can attend and present a similar keynote to that presented this month in Romania at FOSS4GE.
- We discussed strengthening the OSGEO brand in reference to FOSS4G conference and in particular developing branding guidelines for event organisers - in particular to implement guidelines that strengthen awareness of OSGEO in these events.
- OGC Test suite compliance. Jeroen raised the desire to optimise the expense of maintining OGC compliance and certification through OGC

=== Actions ===

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

== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting

== Next meeting ==
*[[Board Meeting 2026-07-28]]

[[Category:Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2026]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:58:54Z

Timlinux:

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|City=Lisbon
|Coordinate=38.728469,-9.152740
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|Email=timlinux - osgeo AT proton.me
|Photo=Timlinux.jpg
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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.

Two other key OSGEO achievements have been co-chair for the 2008 FOSS4G Conference in Cape Town and on the organising committee for the 2018.
}}
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===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: timlinux - osgeo AT proton.me

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:56:17Z

Timlinux:

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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.
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{{OSGeo Member FormEdit}}
===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: timlinux - osgeo AT proton.me

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:55:37Z

Timlinux:

{{OSGeo Member
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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.
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{{OSGeo Member FormEdit}}
===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: timlinux - osgeo AT proton.me

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:54:25Z

Timlinux:

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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.
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{{OSGeo Member FormEdit}}
===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: timlinux - osgeo AT proton.me

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:53:32Z

Timlinux:

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|City=Somerset West
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|LocalChapter=Africa Local Chapter
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|Photo=Timlinux.jpg
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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.
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{{OSGeo Member FormEdit}}
===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: timlinux - osgeo AT proton.me

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:52:06Z

Timlinux:

{{OSGeo Member
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|Company=Kartoza (Pty) Ltd.
|Country=South Africa
|City=Somerset West
|Coordinate=38.728469,-9.152740
|LocalChapter=Africa Local Chapter
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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.
}}
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{{OSGeo Member FormEdit}}
===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: timlinux - osgeo AT proton.me

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:50:55Z

Timlinux:

{{OSGeo Member
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|Country=South Africa
|City=Somerset West
|Coordinate=38.728469,-9.152740
|LocalChapter=Africa Local Chapter
|Email=tim (A T) gis.org
|Photo=Timlinux.jpg
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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.
}}
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{{OSGeo Member FormEdit}}
===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: tim (A T) gis.org

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Timlinux

2025-12-30T20:48:00Z

Timlinux:

{{OSGeo Member
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|Country=South Africa
|City=Somerset West
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|LocalChapter=Africa Local Chapter
|Email=tim (A T) gis.org
|Photo=Timlinux.jpg
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Recognising the need for professional services around the Open Source GIS ecosystem, Tim started his own company, Linfiniti, in 2008. Through a merger with Afrispatial, Tim co-founded Kartoza (https://kartoza.com) in 2014. The company helps Tim to achieve his personal vision of making spatial decision-making tools broadly available to everyone so that we can responsibly manage our precious earth and properly serve the societies that inhabit it. Today Tim's work at Kartoza focuses mainly on humanitarian, social upliftment, and environmental projects. Kartoza as a whole uses its skills in software development, consulting, training, and applied GIS to support customers in a broad range of disciplines from creating the building blocks of cloud-native GIS, smart farming, infrastructure management, energy planning and provision, national metadata initiatives, and many more interesting applications.
}}
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{{OSGeo Member FormEdit}}
===Tim Sutton===

[[File:Timlinux.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Tim Sutton]]

Kartoza Lda. (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

[[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_psc.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Voted_position_in_an_OSGeo_community]]
[[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#Developers_and_Committee_Members]]
[[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]

* QGIS Board Chair
* OSGEO Charter Member

;Contact:
Email: tim (A T) gis.org

Profile last updated: 05 July 2012

[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]