Board Meeting 2021-01-25

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 January 2021 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
   • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
2. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2020-12-28
   • Board_Meeting_2021-01-18
3. 2021 Budget approval [1] [2]
4. OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues
5. FOSS research Foundations
6. OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up
7. response to GDAL support email
8. response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up?
9. GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4?

Minutes

• Presiding: Till
• Scribing: Till, Mike
• Attending: Codrina, Michele, Helena, Astrid, Till, Mike, Angelos, Tom, Vicky (later), Jody (guest for the GDAL topic)

Review and approve past minutes

Board_Meeting_2020-12-28

• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XBW42QJZ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-12-28

Board_Meeting_2021-01-18

• Motion pending on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/6R7BcrlA/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-01-18

2021 Budget approval

• in budget call next year make clear, that there is no money to take over (again!)
• small change in GRASS GIS budget
• cut budget for SAC for 1 contract (4400 US $) and ask them to come back during the year if this is needed.
• dedicate 5000$ for travel grant programme and look if FOSS4G Argentina is onside, no support for regional events
• board agrees with the budget
• Action: Angelos to update the WIKI and open the motion on loomio (done)
• Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XenD58Tj/review-and-approve-osgeo-budget-for-2021

OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues

• Astrid proposes to create a working group on sponsorship as it is hard to get that finalized during the board meetings
• Astrid proposes to work on the already written tickets during the code sprint
• Camptocamp requested whether development is valuable as sponsorship, discussion on how to deal with this.
  • Work is hard to value, because many people contribute in several ways to projects
  • important to keep the door open for companies sponsoring OSGeo with money
• Action: Astrid to create a doodle for the first meeting for the sponsors group

FOSS research Foundations

• Astrid forwarded an email from Martin Michlmayr who sent a questioniare and asked us for help in his work on a report on FOSS Foundations
• Action: Codrina to have a closer look on this questionaire

Response to GDAL support email

• discussion on this email, Angelos proposed to receive sponnsorship via the OSGeo github repo
• probably a problem for a lot of groups in our community, proposal to setup a kind of structure to support these groups in case of such an emergency
• topic is connected to the sponsorship issue (see above)

OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up

• meeting on collaboration OSGeo with HOT
• goal of HOT is to map 1 billion people
• scope of co-operation is to support this project on a long term basis (financing is only for 5 years save)
• preparation of MoU
• frequent meeting every 3 months to keep in touch

Response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up?

• Helena asks whether there was a response
• Action: Helena to follow up here

GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4?

• take up in an email (brought up by Jody)
• some of our projects are based on Elastic Search, so probably need to get rid of it

Actions

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

IRC Log

• the meeting was held on Jitsy