Board Meeting 2021-05-31

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 31 May 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

1. roll call
   • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
2. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2021-04-26
3. Accept the Open Data Cube Project as an OSGeo Community Project
4. Update on FOSS4G 2021
5. Approval for FOSS4G_2022_Bid_Process, Vasile request could be found here
6. AGM planning - when, where? see page from last year Annual_General_Meeting_2020
7. Update on the GSoC Org Stipend From the OSGeo GSoC Admin Team
8. add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Astrid
• Attending: Tom, Till, Angelos, Codrina, Michele, Vicky, Michael, Astrid
• Guests: Rajat, Jody, Luca

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2021-03-29
  • Motion still open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/CTMu0vRQ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-03-29
• Board_Meeting_2021-04-26
  • Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/BaoCKXce/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-04-26

Update on the GSoC Org Stipend From the OSGeo GSoC Admin Team

• Reminder to all the osgeo projects were sent
• Rajat will send the mail today (reminder from last meeting)

Accept the Open Data Cube Project as an OSGeo Community Project

• Jody attending.
• Project listed on web site: https://www.osgeo.org/projects/open-data-cube/
• Needs to be listed in Community Projects section.
• Discuss the goals that are necessary to become a community project (f.e header)
• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee#Committee_Operation
• Tom will contact Alex to setup a new item.

MOT 1: Accept the Open Data Cube Project as an OSGeo Community Project

• Angelos: +1 (initial motion)
• Tom: +1 (seconded)
• all others +1 / helena missing
• Motion passed during meeting.
• Motion moved to Loomio for vote recording: https://www.loomio.org/d/5ZNUazkn/accept-the-open-data-cube-project-as-an-osgeo-community-project

Incubation in general

• Incubation team is very small at the moment. But it should be possible to work with projects that are interested to join

Update on FOSS4G 2021

• reach out to the team
• ask them to join the next meeting
• TODO Astrid will reach out to Maria to ask about the situation

Approval for FOSS4G 2022 Bid Process

• FOSS4G_2022_Bid_Process, Vasile request could be found here

MOT2: Approval for FOSS4G 2022 Bid Process

• Angelos: +1 (initial motion)
• Michael: +1 (seconded)
• all +1 / Helena not there
• Motion passed during meeting.
• Motion moved to Loomio for vote recording: https://www.loomio.org/d/NHrckTGK/approval-for-foss4g-2022-bid-process
• Luca joined the meeting at the end. Congratulations. FOSS4G2022 team is already active

AGM planning

• when, where? see page from last year Annual_General_Meeting_2020
• idea to make pre-recordings and publish them before the conference
• Then on the conference we would do the Q&A with the community
• we start the preparation now
  • wiki page
  • presentation slides
  • prepare announcement
  • send announcement after the next meeting
  • July / August to get the slides ready
  • Vicky volunteers for the video
  • Board can make a video together in a jitsi-meeting
  • Introduction/ End with invitation

IRC Log

• meeting was on jitsi

Next meeting

• Meeting 2021-06-28