Board Meeting 2019-02-26

This board meeting is scheduled for the 26th of February 2019 at 16:00 - 17:00 UTC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

Items in italic are recurring at each meeting.

• roll call
• appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
• Review and approve past minutes
  • Budget Meeting 2019 02 01 <-- no minutes provided, appears to have been a work party, with some discussion of f2f meeting
  • Board Meeting_2019-01-21
• Recognize new project and committee officers
  • Recognize Alessio Fabiani as new GeoNode project officer
• Set up fixed board meeting time each month
• F2F meeting discussion / planning
• approve MoU with UNIGIS and identify event where to sign it
• website management, POC, geoforall members issue (it might have beed discussed but it needs to be fixed)
• incubation update
  • Actinia has been accepted into the OSGeo Community program
  • GeoServer PHP Client requires one more response from the committee
  • Recently reviewed incubation applications inviting projects with out a mentor to consider the OSGeo Community program
  • Discussion: Several OSGeo Community projects have adopted our code of conduct, may be a good idea to ask projects to have a code of conduct?
• Approve OSGeo Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events
• Please add additional topics here

Minutes

• Chair: Maria
• Scribe: Astrid

Attending:

• Angelos
• Maria
• Helena
• Mike
• Victoria
• Astrid
• Tom
• Jody
• Jeff (joined after MOT3)

Review and approve past minutes

Budget Meeting 2019 02 01

• no minutes provided, appears to have been a work party, with some discussion of f2f meeting

Board_Meeting_2019-01-21

MOT1: Approve minutes from meeting 2019-01-21

• Maria: +1 (Initial motion)
• Angelos: +1 (seconded)
• Helena +1
• Mike: +1
• Tom: +1
• Astrid: +1
• Victoria: +1
• Jody: +1

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/4abzo3eO/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2018-12-20

Status: Passed during meeting.

Recognize new project and committee officers

MOT2: Recognize Alessio Fabiani as new GeoNode project officer

• Maria: +1 (Initial motion)
• Tom: +1 (seconded)
• Helena +1
• Mike: +1
• Angelos: +1
• Astrid: +1
• Victoria: +1
• Jody: +1

Alessio Fabiani joined the meeting. https://www.osgeo.org/projects/geonode/

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/i4LGYHTP/recognize-alessio-fabiani-as-new-geonode-project-officer

Status: Passed during meeting.

Set up fixed board meeting time each month

MOT3 Board meetings on IRC every last Monday of the month from 16 UTC to 17 UTC

• Maria: +1 (Initial motion)
• Angelos: +1 (seconded)
• Helena +1
• Mike: +1
• Tom: +1
• Astrid: +1
• Victoria: +1
• Jody: +1

Motion on Loomio: not loomio proposal Status: Passed during meeting.

F2F meeting discussion / planning

MOT4: Organize a video meeting half a day in march for the board

• Maria: +1 (Initial motion)
• Angelos: +1 (seconded)
• Helena +1
• Mike: +1
• Tom: +1
• Astrid: +1
• Victoria: +1
• Jody: +1
• Jeff: +1

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/JMN1aPdS/organize-a-video-meeting-half-a-day-in-march-for-the-board

Status: Passed during meeting.

• Maria will setup a doodle for the meeting

MOT5: Setup a f2f meeting two days prior to foss4g (24.-25.August 2019)

• Maria: +1 (Initial motion)
• Tom: +1 (seconded)
• Helena +0
• Mike: +1
• Angelos: +1
• Astrid: +1
• Victoria: +1
• Jody: +1
• Jeff: +1

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/qAcUxdPI/setup-a-f2f-meeting-two-days-prior-to-foss4g-24-25-august-2019-

Status: Passed during meeting.

Approve MoU with UNIGIS

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_UNIGIS

MOT6: Approve MoU with UNIGIS

• Maria: +1 (Initial motion)
• Tom: +1
• Helena +0
• Mike: +1
• Angelos: +1
• Astrid: +1
• Victoria: +1
• Jody: +1
• Jeff: +1

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/aUDuvbn9/approve-mou-with-unigis

Status: Passed during meeting.

A clause was added by Jody (see 1d. Contribute to geospatial open source projects). With the approved MOU we will go back to UNIGIS and asked whether the part 1d. is ok for them too.

website management

• website management, POC, geoforall members issue (it might have beed discussed but it needs to be fixed)

GeoForAll Form to register lab

• needs restriction. At the moment everyone can create a lab. Discussion about restriction to have an OSGeo-Id to register a lab
• https://www.osgeo.org/geo-for-all-labs/
• Conclusion: Helena and Victoria will discuss with the GeoforAll board. Feedback of the board meeting will be discussed there
• Action: Helena, Victoria, Jody: look into the issue and decide based on GeoForAll

incubation update

Actinia has been accepted into the OSGeo Community program

• Actinia has been accepted into the OSGeo Community program
• Actinia Core is an open source REST API for scalable, distributed, high performance processing of geographical data that uses GRASS GIS for computational tasks.

• Discussion about whether to ask projects: as being part of OSGeo do we want to ask them to follow our code of conduct. to Discussion about code of conduct can happen later via email.

PROJ

• would be great to have PROJ as full osgeo project
• looks like thery have PSC, releases ...
  • GeoServer PHP Client requires one more response from the committee

Approve OSGeo Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/30

MOT7: Approve OSGeo Budget and Money guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events

• Maria: +0 (Initial motion)
• Tom: +1 (seconded)
• Helena +0
• Mike: +0
• Angelos: +0
• Astrid: +0
• Victoria: +0
• Jody: +1
• Jeff: +0

Status: Some of the members did not study the guidance. We like the draft but we have to review more. Did not passed during meeting

To review the document will be transfered to a document