Board Meeting 2018-08-01

This board meeting is scheduled for the 1. of August 2018 at 15.00 UTC through IRC, 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.

Note that the meeting is limited to 1 hour.

• roll call
• appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
• Review and approve past minutes
  • Board_Meeting_2018-06-06
  • Board_Meeting_2018-07-05
• Request for support for FOSS4G-SotM-Oceania Community Day sprints (proposal) (thread)
• Request to approve Sri Lankan chapter as official OSGeo chapter (request)
• Charter member profile signup on the new website (request) see Charter members at OSGeo webside
• Discuss formal handling of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) (thread)
  • at FOSS4G-Europe Jachym Cepicky, Steven Feldman volunteered to work on it
• CLA document handling
  • see also Secretary
• Action needed on community rules/behaviour
• Request from Jeff Johnson for OSGeo Support for FOSS4G-NA 2019
• update on FOSS4G
  • FOSS4G 2018 Community Sprint approve sponsoring from OSGeo
  • program / preparation mail https://2018.foss4g.org/programme/list-of-presentations/ also overview at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018
  • Call for input AGM
  • F2F meeting find date
• Feedback FOSS4G Europe 2018 - it was a great Event!
• Request for Board to sign Enabling FAIR Data commitment statement (request)
• add your items here

Minutes

• Presiding: Jody
• Scribing: Angelos

Attending:

• Jeff
• Angelos
• Maria A
• Jody
• Vasile
• Astrid

Review and approve past minutes

Review and approve minutes from Board_Meeting_2018-06-06

MOT1: Motion to approve the meeting minutes from 2018-06-06 meeting

• Jody +0 (initial motion but did not attend)
• Angelos +1 (seconded)
• Maria A +0
• Jeff +1

Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/JS80yYvO/motion-to-approve-board-meeting-minutes-from-2018-06-06

Status: Passed

Review and approve minutes from Board_Meeting_2018-07-05

MOT2: Motion to approve the meeting minutes from 2018-07-05 meeting

• Jody +1 (initial motion)
• Jeff +1 (seconded)
• Vasile +1
• Angelos +1
• Maria A +0

Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/xqbQJRer/motion-to-approve-board-meeting-minutes-from-2018-07-05

Status: Passed

Request for support for FOSS4G-SotM-Oceania Community Day sprints

• jbryant present to talk about the event
• It is a 4 day event, 1 day workshops, 2 days conference and 1 day 'community day', asking for financial support for the community day. Requesting 1475 USD. Sponsorship is very strong, and conference has 25 workshop proposals (for 10 available spaces)
• Discussion about the sprint day placement.
• Feedback on how to improve organization of events is requested. Please start a LessonsLearned wiki page for the whole event.
• (proposal)
• (thread)

MOT3 Support FOSS4G-SotM-Oceania Community Day sprints, proposal is for $1475USD

• Jody +1 (initial motion)
• Jeff +1 (seconded)
• Maria A +1
• Vasile +1
• Angelos +1

Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/l7xjvyZd/motion-to-support-foss4g-sotm-oceania-community-day-sprints-proposal-is-for-1475usd

Status: Passed

Request to approve Sri Lankan chapter as official OSGeo chapter

• (request)
• Malika and Nimalika (chapter president) do send their regrets for this meeting
• Jody: This proposal hits everything we ask for, the groups has been working together, has put on events and has managed to have a meeting
• Jeff: About the Sri Lanka chapter: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka They are a wonderful local chapter, and, working very hard on planning for hosting the world at FOSS4G-Asia in December.
• Maria A: They have shown they are a working group already.

MOT4 Recognize Sri Lanka as a official local chapter

• Jody +1 (initial motion)
• Jeff +1 (seconded)
• Angelos +1
• Maria A +1
• Vasile +1

Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/HxJfBTNv/motion-to-recognize-sri-lanka-as-a-official-local-chapter

Status: Passed

IRC Log

• http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2018-08-01.log