Board Meeting 2024-05-28

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 18:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on Loomio and actions on the OSGeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2024-04-30
4. Executive positions (continued)
5. 10 years of OSGeo videos in the TIB AV-Portal - request to send a thank you email from the board [1].
6. MDM2024: Collaboration proposal [2]
7. OSGeo deal with Geo Week 2025 Event (email from Carl Berndtson to board-priv)
8. Utilization of a new room on meet.osgeo.org for local chapters [3]
9. EC funding for FOSS4G Europe 2024 (continued)
10. Review pending actions
11. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Marco
• Attending: Codrina, Marco, Angelos, Michael, Ariel, Jeroen, Vicky
• Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2024-04-30
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/WkRV6McT/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2024-04-30

Executive positions (continued)

• Continued from https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2024-02-27#Executive_positions
• Discussion about VP Europe and link to OSGeo Europe
• ACTION: Open motion on Loomio to Nominate VP for Europe (Codrina and Marco Candidate)

10 years of OSGeo videos in the TIB AV-Portal - request to send a thank you email from the board

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-April/013531.html
• ACTION: (Angelos) Send as news item (markusN has provided a news draft).

MDM2024: Collaboration proposal

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-April/013519.html
• OSGeo cannot be a sponsor
• Default answer is that we need to look for a volunteer and if we find one we’ll go.
• ACTION: (Marco will ask Anita Graser if she would go and represent OSGeo and maybe take care of a booth)

OSGeo deal with Geo Week 2025 Event (email from Carl Berndtson to board-priv)

• We can look for a volunteer

Utilization of a new room on meet.osgeo.org for local chapters

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-April/013523.html
• No need for board approval
• Vicky already answered https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-May/013539.html

EC funding for FOSS4G Europe 2024 (continued)

• Continued from https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2024-04-30#EC_funding_for_FOSS4G_Europe_2024
• EC wants to give money
• Difficult for them to give the LOC
• In the past there were workarounds with Local Chapters
• We need to create a OSGeu EU
• ACTION: Jeroen will check to add this to the Dutch LOC foundation

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2024-06-25