Board Meeting 2020-07-27

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 27 July 2020 at 16:00 UTC through IRC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
   • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
2. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2020-06-29
3. AGM Annual General Meeting 2020
4. Charter member elections planning
5. Review action items from past meetings
6. Certification from OSGeo [1]
7. UCGIS MoU update, GISc Body of Knowledge OSGeo Live chapter author needed
8. Sol Katz Award 2020
9. recognize geostyler as joining the osgeo community program

Minutes

• Presiding: Till
• Scribing: Angelos
• Attending: Till, Angelos, Mike, Helena, Astrid, Tom, Codrina
• Guests: Jody Garnett

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2020-06-29
• Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/7FyWVKcj/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-06-29

AGM

• Discussion about potential dates for a virtual AGM
• AGM on thursday, 10th of September at 18:00 UTC
• Discussion on platform (Jitsi or other).
• ACTION: Till to discuss with Markus and SAC about hosting platform.
• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
• Annual General Meeting 2020

Charter member elections planning

• ACTION: Angelos to contact previous CRO team (Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla)
• Potential elections kick off 15th Sept.

Certification from OSGeo

• Post on Board mailing list
• If someone wants to do it, we would support that effort but it shouldn't be done by the board. Perhaps a new committee and some volunteers?
• ACTION: Astrid can write the response and forward to the discuss list

UCGIS MoU update

• Helena is working with John Wilson on expanding open source geospatial in UCGIS GIST Body of knowledge and is looking for volunteer to write about OSGeoLive
• ACTION: Angelos to bring up to the next OSGeoLive meeting

Sol Katz Award 2020

• Jeff wrote a mail and would like to start the process for Sol Katz Award 2020 [2]
• The award will be given at the end of AGM

Recognize Geostyler as joining the OSGeo Community program

• GeoStyler OSGeo page

MOT1: Motion to recognize Geostyler as joining the OSGeo Community program

• Angelos: +1 (Initial motion)
• Helena: +1 (Seconded)
• Till: 0
• Tom: +1
• Codrina: +1
• Mike: +1

• Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/Hp3Sxso8/recognize-geostyler-as-joining-the-osgeo-community-program

Review action items from past meetings

• Angelos to send the Microsoft wish list soon
• Astrid will send the mail to OSGeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors

Actions

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
• Till to discuss with Markus and SAC about AGM hosting platform. (DONE)
• Angelos to contact previous CRO team (Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla) about 2020 elections. (DONE)
• Astrid to write the certification response and forward to the discuss list (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/88)
• Angelos to bring up UCGIS to the next OSGeoLive meeting. (DONE)
• Angelos to send the Microsoft wish list. (DONE)
• Astrid to send the mail to OSGeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/81)

IRC Log

• http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-07-27.log