Board of Directors

OSGeo Foundation Board of Directors

The board is elected by the Charter Members as outlined in the Board Election Procedure.

Period: December 2023 - November 2025

• Jeroen Ticheler - Netherlands (Central European Time Zone UTC +1h)
• Marco Bernasocchi - Switzerland (Central European Time Zone UTC +1h)
• Codrina Maria Ilie - Bucharest, Romania (Central European Time Zone UTC +1h)
• Rajat Shinde - India/Huntsville, AL, USA (currently) (Central Time UTC -5h)
• Vicky Vergara - Naucalpan, Mexico (Central Standard Time UTC -6h)

Period: December 2022 - November 2024

• Angelos Tzotsos - Athens, Greece (Central European Time UTC +2h) President
• Michael Smith - Hanover, New Hampshire, USA (Eastern Time UTC -5h) Treasurer
• Tom Kralidis - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Eastern Time UTC -5h)
• Ariel Anthieni - Buenos Aires, Argentina (Argentina Time UTC -3h)

More detailed information is available in the Board Member Profiles.

Board Activities and Meetings

Board Activities

Motions

The board is using Loomio to track motions and facilitate voting (see Board Voting Procedure):

• https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board

Actions

The board is an issue tracker for actions:

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

Board Meetings

In general the OSGeo board meets on Jitsi or IRC the last Monday of the month from 15.00 UTC

Upcoming board meetings:

Video call

board will get together for a video call and work through discussions and tasks in 1 hour Jitsi meeting. May also consist of an informal "work party" of board members and officers to work on tasks and collaboration not easily handled in IRC / email.

• [[[Board_Meeting_2022-10-31]] 16:00 UTC

IRC Meeting

Internet Rely Chat meetings are held on Libera.Chat OSGeo channel, please note that due to spam you are now required to register with the "NickServ" bot to verify your identity prior to posting messages on IRC. Before 2021, the board was using the FreeNode OSGeo channel that was logged providing a great record of IRC meetings.

• none scheduled

Face to Face Meeting

board will get together in person and work through discussions and tasks that are not easily handled in a 1 hour IRC meeting or via e-mail. For face to face meetings travel costs will be covered by the foundation.

• none scheduled

Member meeting

board meeting with OSGeo members at OSGeo events providing a chance to listen and discuss our community. May also consist of informal "party" to celebrate our community, members, and what we accomplish together

• none scheduled

Previous meetings

2024 - 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - Earlier.

Initiatives

While the board is focused on decision making occasionally there is a call for a long term activity in support of our goals and objectives. We are especially proud of joint initiatives undertaken with other parties as a tangible result of collaboration and community building.

Initiatives:

• GeoForAll - education and research outreach

• FOSS4G (Events) - managed by the conference committee

• Travel Grant Program - facilitate accessibility and diversity at our global and regional FOSS4G events

• Open GeoScience - make scientific research, data and results transparent and accessible for science and society

• UN Initiatve - support the UN migration to Open Source Geospatial software solutions

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) - encourage university student participation in open source software development

• OSGeoLive Initiative

• OSGeo Community Project Initiative: created foster innovation and collaboration resulting in a lower barrier of entry to join the OSGeo Family. Managed by the board with the assistance of the incubation committee to review applicants.

• OSGeo Code Sprints Initiative - sponsorship program for projects and communities planning targeted software development.

• OSGeo Security Initiative - sponsorship program providing emergency funds for projects faced with an urgent security vulnerability.

• Meta CRS Initiative - gathers together interested parties from across several projections, and coordinate system related technologies

• OpenGIS Harmonization - untangle the use of org.opengis java package between OSGeo GeoTools project and OGC GeoAPI Standard. This is a cross-project initiative as many projects in our Java family are affected by any change.

While the board is responsible for defining the scope and responsibilities of these activities, initiatives require participation for success. OSGeo projects and committees may have additional initiatives of interest beyond the ones listed here as overseen by the board.

Creating an initiative is a great way to setup for a recurring activity (such as GSoC) without the "overhead" of establishing a full OSGeo committee.

Working Groups

While the board is focused on decision making occasionally there is a call for action. The following working groups are focused on accomplishing a specific 2-3 week objective and will report back to the board list when completed. This is in contrast to long term activities handled by committees.

2021 Working Groups

• none at present

2015 Working Groups

• 2015 Sponsorship Drive Working Group - contact prior sponsors, blog post inviting new sponsors
• GeoForAll OSGeo Relationship: Revised Education Committee mandate pending clarification of relationship with Geo4All advisory board (our GeoForAll representatives are Venkatesh Raghavan and Jeff McKenna)

Planning

2022 Planning

Operational Budget for 2022

The board is dividing this years budget up by committee, initiative and project!

• OSGeo Budget 2022

2021 Planning

Operational Budget for 2021

The board is dividing this years budget up by committee, initiative and project!

• OSGeo Budget 2021

2020 Planning

Operational Budget for 2020

The board is dividing this years budget up by committee, initiative and project!

• OSGeo Budget 2020

2019 Planning

Documents:

• OSGeo Financial Guidance

Operational Budget for 2019

The board is dividing this years budget up by committee, initiative and project!

• OSGeo Budget 2019

2018 Planning

Operational Budget for 2018

The board is dividing this years budget up by committee, initiative and project!

• OSGeo Budget 2018

Sponsorship Opportunities for 2018

OSGeo maintains a sponsorship program recognizing financial contributions to our projects, initiatives and events.

• OSGeo Sponsorship Opportunities 2018

2017 Planning

Operational Budget for 2017

The board is dividing this years budget up by committee:

• OSGeo Budget 2017

Sponsorship Opportunities for 2017

The foundation recognizes sponsors who financially support our events, initiatives and open source projects.

• Sponsorship Opportunities for 2017

The following has been published as the following blog post and how to sponsor page.

2016 Planning

Operational Budget for 2016

Thanks to our sponsors, and a series of successful events, OSGeo does has an operational budget for 2016.

• OSGeo Budget 2016

The Board has divided the above budget up according to our priority as an organization. Please keep in mind that prior boards have taken this approach - and spent nothing due to lack of volunteers willing to lead the charge. The following is budget and does not provide a commitment to spend money on the actives listed - to do that we need your commitment as a volunteer!

Strategic Plan 2016

From Anne: See the parallel Skate-Boarding of Fedora at http://fedoramagazine.org/lets-talk-about-fedora-project-objectives/ - I really like the idea of having 18 months goals, that are measurable, backed up by community agreement. Let's discuss this at the first Sprint. There are also some thoughts on Ubuntu governance that can inspire us, but I haven't gone through the whole discussion yet, and there are many differences between OSGeo and Ubuntu; so I'm not sure on how much we can learn from it.

This section outlines OSGeo strategic plan for 2016 - this is a result of the vision, mission and goals established at the 2016 face to face meeting.

Strategic objectives for 2016:

• S01: showcasing excellence in our communities
• S02: proactively engage with external partners
• S03: Fostering our mission, vision and goals
• S04: Empowering our communities and extending our reach

These objectives were taken to the community for concrete / measurable actions volunteers were interested in tackling over the course of 2016.

Update: We did not receive enough feedback to form a strategic plan.

2013 Planning

• OSGeo Board : Board Priorities 2013 - establish OSGeo as a low capital, volunteer focused organization focused supporting communities and initiatives which support themselves

Reference

• Please see foundation bylaws for official responsibilities
• Arnulf Christl's OSGeo Director Retrospective. Arnulf was an OSGeo Board member and President of OSGeo.
• for incoming Board members OnboardingChecklist

Documents

• [OSGeo Financial Guidance]
• Executive Positions and Director Responsibilities
• Board Election Procedure
• Election 2022
• Election 2021
• Election 2020
• Election 2019
• Election 2018: Board_Election_2018_Results Election 2018 Candidate Manifestos
• Election 2017: Board_Election_2017_Results Election 2017 Candidate Manifestos
• Election 2016: Board_Election_2016_Results Election 2016 Candidate Manifestos
• Election 2015: Board_Election_2015_Results Election 2015 Candidate Manifestos
• Election 2014: Board Election 2014 Results
• Election 2013: Board Election 2013 Results
• Election 2012: Board Election 2012 Results
• Election 2011: Board Election 2011 Results
• Election 2010: Board Election 2010 Results
• Election 2009: Board Election 2009, see 2009 section of Proposed Board Election Procedure
• Election 2008: Board Election 2008, see 2008 section of Proposed Board Election Procedure
• Election 2007: Board Election 2007, see 2007 section of Proposed Board Election Procedure
• Foundation Sponsorship (adopted), Project Sponsorship (adopted), Local Chapter Sponsorship (idea)
• Conflict Of Interest Policy
• Board_of_Directors/OnboardingChecklist

Mailing list

The http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board mailing list is used for most public board discussions. There is also a private board mailing list used only for matters that are considered needful to be kept private.

History of OSGeo Foundation Boards of Directors

• Board of Directors 2022
• Board of Directors 2021
• Board of Directors 2020
• Board of Directors 2019
• Board of Directors 2018 (Nov. 2018 - Oct. 2019)
• Board of Directors 2017 (Nov. 2017 - Oct. 2018)
• Board of Directors 2016 (Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2017)
• Board of Directors 2015 (Aug. 2015 - Aug. 2016)
• Board of Directors 2014 (Aug. 2014 - Aug. 2015)
• Board of Directors 2013 (Aug. 2013 - Aug. 2014)
• Board of Directors 2012 (Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2013)
• Board of Directors 2011 (Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2012)
• Board of Directors 2010 (Aug. 2010 - Aug. 2011)
• Board of Directors 2009 (Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2010)
• Board of Directors 2008 (July 2008 - Sept. 2009)
• Board of Directors 2007 (Aug. 2007 - July 2008)
• Interim Board of Directors 2006 (Feb. 2006 - July 2007)

An interim Board of Directors with 5 members was elected on February 4th, 2006, by the initial members of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. On March 18th, 2006, the board has been completed to now total nine members: