Board Meeting 2019-01-21

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-01-21

This board meeting is scheduled for the 21th of January 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
  • Board_Meeting_2018-12-20
• Recognize new project and committee officers
  • Approve Victoria as a new chair of Geoforall initiative
  • Dan Little as representative for GeoMOOSE PSC
  • Andreas Hocevar officer for OpenLayers
  • Welcome [User:Olaf_Knopp| Olaf Knopp]] as new Chair of the Mapbender project
• Review and approve 60 day period for anyone asking OSGeo for reimbursement of funds
• Review inactive projects and consider scaling back to OSGeo community program
  • FDO and MapGuide Open Source - project committer Jackie has confirmed this is an appropriate step
  • MapFish - last activity in 2011, Angelos in contact and may have an update
• Draft OSGeo_Budget_2019
  1. Budget guidance for projects, committees, initiatives and events - draft
  2. Review draft, assemble any last moment requests before meeting
  3. Revise and discuss with any representatives present
  4. Approve 2019 budget
• Local Chapter Geoinquietos Argentina request for 2000
  • To handle setup of legal paperwork?
  • Chicken and egg, form the local chapter and then recognize local chapter :)
• QGIS Dev Meeting request for 4000
  • See initial email request and subsequent revision
  • Q: Handle as an event or as part of QGIS PSC budget above?
• Event planning
• Flickr photos going away from foss4g and osgeo groups todo#32
  • Deadline Feb 5th
• CoC questions
• add your priorities here

Minutes

• Chair: Jody
• Scribe: Astrid

Attending:

• Jody
• Angelos
• Maria
• Helena
• Mike
• Tom
• Victoria
• Astrid
• Jeff

Review and approve past minutes

Board_Meeting_2018-12-20

MOT1: Approve minutes from meeting 2018-12-20

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

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 new project officers for:

• Victoria for GeoForAll
• Dan Little representing GeoMOOSE PSC
• Andreas Hocevar for OpenLayers
• Olaf Knopp for Mapbender

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

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/1lw8R4fv/recognize-new-project-officers-for-geoforall-geomoose-openlayers-mapbender

Status: Passed during meeting.

ACTON: DONE: Astrid will reach out to the 4 persons and will ask to join board list and say hi and also join projects mailing list

Review inactive projects and consider scaling back to OSGeo community program

See ticket about reaching out to Projects: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/11

• No feedback came back from the projects: FDO, OSSIM, Geomajas, MapFish, MapGuide

Some projects like FDO, MapGuide are active in the codebase but have not much activity for an operational PSC.

Discussion about scaling inactive projects back to OSGeo community program. This would need a change in the bylaws.

Board postponed this topic.

Discussion about MapFish. Contact person Elic Lemoine left the project. Emmanuel Belo is the new contact person. No code activity since 2011, but activity in a new fork and print module. Emmanuel Belo was asked by Anglos to report back from the project, so the board will wait for his report.

MOT3: Move MapFish from OSGeo Project status to OSGeo Community program

• Jody: +1 (Initial motion)
• Mike: -1, recommend postpone for now
• Maria: -1
• Astrid: -1

Status: Did not pass during meeting. Was blocked by -1 and postponed

Review and approve 60 day period for anyone asking OSGeo for reimbursement of funds

Recommended 60/90 days for anyone asking OSGeo for reimbursement of funds. This is meant as a guidline. Exceptions can occur.

Documentation for this new rule is needed: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/30

Local Chapter Geoinquietos Argentina request for 2000

• see email https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2018-December/011922.html

There is already a functional chapter inside the Spanish Chapter, just not official yet. Malena Libman is the president of the Local Chapter.

MOT4: Motion to provide donation up to $2000 to local Argentina chaper for startup

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

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/iV1Ht5cN/motion-to-provide-donation-up-to-2000-to-local-argentina-chaper-for-startup

Status: Passed during meeting.

MOT5: Recogonize Geoinquietos Argentina as a local chapter with Malena as acting liason

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

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/SO0f3XnH/recogonize-geoinquietos-argentina-as-a-local-chapter-with-malena-as-acting-liason

Status: Passed during meeting.

QGIS Conference and Developer Meeting request funding

• https://www.osgeo.org/events/international-qgis-user-conference/

MOT7: Approve up to 3000 € for QGIS event / conference 2019 A Coruña

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

Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/7Jx5FNOl/approve-up-to-3000-for-qgis-event-conference-2019-a-coru-a

Status: Passed during meeting.

Flickr photos going away from foss4g and osgeo groups

• see https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/32
• deadline 5th february

MOT8: request astroidex and jodygarnett to try to download all flickr images

• Motion was to ask Astrid and Jody to get into action

OSGeo Budget 2019

The meeting was officialy closed. A video meeting followed were the budget draft was discussed