Board Meeting 2021-08-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 August 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
2. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2021-07-26
3. Pretalx / Pretix services for FOSS4G and Local Chapters
4. AGM planning
5. Update on OGC OSGeo MoU
6. Update HOT MoU
7. DOI for Projects
8. GEO Participating Organization contact points registration
9. Request of OSGeo contribution for JRC Report
10. Update on the Open Source Solutions overview (graph) initiative
11. OSGeo projects websites is lacking the information about the OSGeo project officer

Minutes

• Presiding: Till
• Scribing: Till / Angelos
• Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Michele, Helena, Till, Vicky, Astrid
• Guests: Luca Delucchi
• next meeting 03.10.2021 14 UTC

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2021-07-26
• ACTION: Angelos to start the voting on Loomio (DONE)
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/mkIsTAW9/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-07-26

Pretalx / Pretix services for FOSS4G and Local Chapters

• Luca Delucchi proposes OSGeo to be a provider for Pretalx/Pretix Services for the community
• Pretalx/Pretix Services are used already by local chapters and also by global FOSS4G:
  • SAC to install on OSGeo servers or
  • ask developers to provide the service for
  • us or use the Hetzner service (as used by FOSS4G 2021)
• FOSSGIS uses hosted service by developer
• ACTION: Till proposes to contact the developer and ask for model for OSGeo (so that every local chapter can use the service) - Astrid will do ;-)
• ACTION: put the item on next month agenda and re-discuss (DONE)

AGM planning

• Recording of the Board part of the video - still open
  • Angelos to record this today and also delivers connecting slides
  • each presenter of OSGeo board can do his/her slides on his/her own
• discussion about publishing and watching the video together - agreed to meet on Jitsy and view together with community
  • published on 14th of September
• how is the feedback from the community - are videos coming in?
  • Astrid sent emails to all local chapters/projects and asked for uploading videos with their contributions (deadline 31.08.2021)
• enhance text at FOSS4G program https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/WDEW3P/

Update on OGC OSGeo MoU

• recording of MoU with OGC/OSGeo and will be integrated into AGM
• discuss draft in meeting next time

Update HOT MoU

• person to sign it on HOT side will sign it soon, mention this on AGM

DOI for Projects

• see MOSS DOI https://zenodo.org/record/5140319#.YRuRkIgzaUk
• Update: Peter Löwe mentioned this and will talk about this on AGM as well
• discuss on later board meetings / code sprint

GEO Participating Organization contact points registration

• Angelos shows the form for contacting points
• Helena proposes to name just 2 persons: Angelos and Codrina volunteer

Request of OSGeo contribution for JRC Report

• Angelos received request from JRC : Ask for short text about what OSGeo thinks about INSPIRE
• Angelos forwarded to private mailing list and asks for board contributions
• Till has a look at it and comes back to Angelos (on board private list)
• Draft of Angelos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WOp2gYry2H7u9VQI6PrLzB_8HGJkGribfTHfazDeXLk/edit?usp=sharing

Update on the Open Source Solutions overview (graph) initiative

• Codrina shares ideas and plans about their project
• now collect informations of solutions and supported standards
• Review issue 109

OSGeo projects websites is lacking the information about the OSGeo project officer

• Vicky created a prototype: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/109
• Astrid proposes to postpone the topic to the next meeting

IRC Log

• no log, Will be a meeting on jitsi

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2021-10-03