Difference between revisions of "Board Meeting 2021-04-26"

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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 26 April 2021 at 15:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2021-03-29
Update on FOSS4G 2021
Response from SAGANA about letter for sponsorship
Sponsors (ending soon: Mundialis, not renewed for this year: aon)
Free Software Foundation - should OSGeo make a response?
Rajat Shinde <rajatshinde2303 at gmail.com> Google Summer of Code discussion
add your topic here

Minutes

Presiding: Till
Scribing: Till, Codrina
Attending: Angelos, Astrid, Mike, Michele, Codrina, Helena, Vicky, Till.
Guests: Rajat Shinde (Google Summer of Code), Maria Arias (FOSS4G2021) and Regina Obe (SAC)

Google Summer of Code organization payment discussion

participation on behalf of GSoC: Rajat Shinde - chair of GSoC
There is a need of incentives for the mentors to join GSoC, as there is a lack of interest now.
There must be 2 mentors (main and secondary) for each project. This year, there were 22 proposals received, out of which they must select 10, as there are only 20 mentors.
Question: What can OSGeo do for the mentors? Until now, Google payment goes to OSGeo. What should OSGeo do? Proposals: pass money from OSGeo directly to mentor, free pass to FOSS4G

(Maria offers "We can offer discounts at least for them"), pass the money to the projects and they decide.

ACTION: Rajat prepares email with opportunities and requests board for decision/recommendation.

Update on FOSS4G 2021 (Maria from BALOC)

Giving up venue (to make online FOSS4G2021) negotiating was closed with payment of 1/4 of the

payment (~15k $).

Interest is good, normal no. of proposals for talks/workshops;
Few tickets sold (normal each year);
Passport info is needed when buying a ticket now in order to justify money movement to authorities. Maria tries to

check and change this.

The BALOC needs more help, as some of the team members are either infected with SARs-COV-2 or are taking care of an ill person.
The sponsorships are at a safe level, it may even allow to give more discounts to tickets.
There are discussions going with streaming providers to make sure that anyone from everywhere can participate;
There were some sponsors requesting participants' data - it has been completely denied.
ACTION: Till to push in the ConfComm to deny sharing participants data to sponsors for future conferences.
No action from the board needed.

Review and approve past minutes

Board_Meeting_2021-03-29

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/CTMu0vRQ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-03-29
Motion status:

Response from SAGANA about letter for sponsorship

Vicky talks about her ideas for getting more sponsors, i.e. having paid people to do that.
AE is interested to work on the topic.

Free Software Foundation - vote passed to appoint Richard Stallman to a board seat

https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman
Should OSGeo make a statement regarding this matter?
Michele proposes to give a response from the OSGeo side (https://thenewstack.io/why-almost-everyone-wants-richard-stallman-cancelled/)
ACTION: Michele drafts statement on Google Drive and shares it with the board for comments.

LDAP/WIKI accounts movement

Regina from SAC participated.
problems with merging old WIKI accounts to new LDAP for people with "_" in their username;
maybe more people have problems with merging their accounts due to other unidentified issues;
email to OSGeo general that explains the possible problems (Regina);
Astrid asks all board members to write write a mission for themselves, as it is possible now - and sets a good example.

IRC Log

meeting was held on Jitsi

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 # ''roll call''
-#
+#* ''appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary''
+# ''Review and approve past minutes''
+#* [[Board_Meeting_2021-03-29]]
+# Update on FOSS4G 2021
+# Response from SAGANA about letter for sponsorship
+# Sponsors (ending soon: Mundialis, not renewed for this year: aon)
+# Free Software Foundation - should OSGeo make a response?
+# Rajat Shinde <rajatshinde2303 at gmail.com> Google Summer of Code discussion
 # add your topic here
 == Minutes ==
+* Presiding: Till
+* Scribing: Till, Codrina
+* Attending: Angelos, Astrid, Mike, Michele, Codrina, Helena, Vicky, Till.
+* Guests: Rajat Shinde (Google Summer of Code), Maria Arias (FOSS4G2021) and Regina Obe (SAC)
+=== Google Summer of Code organization payment discussion  ===
+* participation on behalf of GSoC: Rajat Shinde - chair of GSoC
+* There is a need of incentives for the mentors to join GSoC, as there is a lack of interest now.
+* There must be 2 mentors (main and secondary) for each project. This year, there were 22 proposals received, out of which they must select 10, as there are only 20 mentors.
+* Question: What can OSGeo do for the mentors? Until now, Google payment goes to OSGeo. What should OSGeo do? Proposals: pass money from OSGeo directly to mentor, free pass to FOSS4G
+(Maria offers "We can offer discounts at least for them"), pass the money to the projects and they decide.
+* ACTION: Rajat prepares email with opportunities and requests board for decision/recommendation.
+=== Update on FOSS4G 2021 (Maria from BALOC) ===
-== Actions ==
+* Giving up venue (to make online FOSS4G2021) negotiating was closed with payment of 1/4 of the
+payment (~15k $).
+* Interest is good, normal no. of proposals for talks/workshops;
+* Few tickets sold (normal each year);
+* Passport info is needed when buying a ticket now in order to justify money movement to authorities. Maria tries to
+check and change this.
+* The BALOC needs more help, as some of the team members are either infected with SARs-COV-2 or are taking care of an ill person.
+* The sponsorships are at a safe level, it may even allow to give more discounts to tickets.
+* There are discussions going with streaming providers to make sure that anyone from everywhere can participate;
+* There were some sponsors requesting participants' data - it has been completely denied.
+* ACTION: Till to push in the ConfComm to deny sharing participants data to sponsors for future conferences.
+* No action from the board needed.
+=== Review and approve past minutes ===
+====[[Board_Meeting_2021-03-29]]====
+* Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/CTMu0vRQ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-03-29
+* Motion status:
+=== Response from SAGANA about letter for sponsorship ===
+* Vicky talks about her ideas for getting more sponsors, i.e. having paid people to do that.
+* AE is interested to work on the topic.
+=== Sponsors ===
+* ending soon: mundialis
+* ACTION: Till to contact mundialis so that they write a mail to OSGeo about what they are doing - sponsoring FOSS4G 2021 - so extending as OSGeo sponsor.
+* not renewed for this year - aon (Mike): aon has renewed for this year;
+=== Free Software Foundation - vote passed to appoint Richard Stallman to a board seat ===
+* https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman
+* Should OSGeo make a statement regarding this matter?
+*  Michele proposes to give a response from the OSGeo side (https://thenewstack.io/why-almost-everyone-wants-richard-stallman-cancelled/)
+* ACTION: Michele drafts statement on Google Drive and shares it with the board for comments.
+=== LDAP/WIKI accounts movement ===
+* Regina from SAC participated.
+* problems with merging old WIKI accounts to new LDAP for people with "_" in their username;
+* maybe more people have problems with merging their accounts due to other unidentified issues;
+* email to OSGeo general that explains the possible problems (Regina);
+* Astrid asks all board members to write write a mission for themselves, as it is possible now - and sets a good example.
 == IRC Log ==
-* the meeting was held via Jitsy
+* meeting was held on Jitsi
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