Board Meeting 2021-11-29

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 29 November 2021 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2021-10-25
4. Accept new charter members for 2021 [1]
5. Incubation application accepted for pygeoapi [2]
6. OSGeo / OGC Memorandum of Understanding update
7. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Till
• Scribing: Till, Angelos
• Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Vicky, Tom, Helena, Michele, Till, Astrid
• Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2021-10-25
• Motion on loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/3RgDXWNx/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-10-25

Accept new charter members for 2021

• CRO email [3]
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/PDvTgkVN/motion-to-approve-new-charter-members-for-2021-based-on-the-recommendation-of-cro
• Astrid will inform via email (similar to last year)
• inform people better, what actually charter membership means, in order to encourage more people
• AI Vicky: review the membership page on the website

Incubation application accepted for pygeoapi

• email from incubation committee [4]
• board to approve vote, AI Angelos: prepare vote on loomio and inform the board (done)

OSGeo / OGC Memorandum of Understanding update

• Overview: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020
• Issue tracking: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80
• Draft Exhibit A: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020/Draft
• Tom reports on the actual state (as can be seen in the WIKI, link above)
• AI Angelos: Prepare Loomio Vote for board to approve
• discussion that we need a Committee / Standard-Committee
  • for this ask project members that depend on OGC
  • Tom suggests to ask at standards-list for a new committee and attract people to join (after Loomio vote passes)
  • Tom/Angelos to prepare a press release
  • Review Committee guidelines for this!
• Motion to approve on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/7U9AXuLf/motion-to-approve-osgeo-ogc-memorandum-of-understanding-update

OSGeo Code Sprint 2022

• Discussion what happens with next code sprint?
• Common Code Sprint OGC/Apache and re-use room from OSGeo-CodeSprint
  • AI: Tom to check Joanna on OGC Codesprint planning
• Angelos happy to pass to volunteers for f2f code sprint

Actions

• See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
  • Angelos points to the fact, that we as bvoard are responsible for some pages, probably we need a wqork session to update them
  • AI all: Review older tickets (e.g. number below #100) and update/close them

IRC Log

• no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2021-12-27