Board Meeting 2022-05-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 May 2022 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. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2022-04-25
4. OGC / OSGeo MOU update
5. FOSS4G 2022
6. Bolsena 2022 Funding Request
7. CRO: voting statistics for past elections, retiring process of charter members

Minutes

• Presiding: Michele Tobias
• Scribing: Adam Steer
• Attending: Michele Tobias, Adam Steer, Vicky Vergara, Angelos Tzotsos, Codrina Ilie, Tom Kralidis, Rajat Shinde, Marco Bernasocchi
• Guests: Anne Ghisla, Brian Hamlin

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2022-04-25
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/x9flupy0/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-04-25

OGC OSGeo MoU

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80
• The board needs to review the press release. OSGeo and OGC to deliver joint keynote at FOSS4G, so there is some pressure.
• Two sections in particular need review / adding: "About OSGeo", and a quote from OSGeo.
• Tom asked the board to consider the message OSGeo wants to give in the MoU press release.
• MoU release time - both end of June and at FOSS4G discussed, end of June seems to be the consensus
• Comments on the draft press release will be accepted until 3 June, at which point the press release will be returned to OGC for final edits and release.

FOSS4G 2022

• Discussion of board travel plans for FOSS4G Firenze.
• A decision was reached to hold a face to face meeting on Saturday 27 August at the same time as the code sprint
• Codrina will ask the Firenze LOC if we can use a room at the code sprint venue.

Bolsena 2022 Funding Request

• EU2000 is requested from OSGeo to assist a code sprint in Bolsena: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2022#OSGeo_Funding_Request
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/f8K3nQxN/bolsena-2022-code-sprint-funding-request

CRO: voting statistics for past elections, retiring process of charter members

• Discussion about how to retire inactive charter members, meaning everyone who has not voted for 2-3 elections
• We propose to contact all inactive charter members to initialise discussion about what they want to do.
• Discussion about putting a page on the OSGeo wiki about voluntary retirement - and automatic/silent retirement (as exceptional procedure of 2022, and clarified for subsequent years)
• Anne as CRO will then write on discuss list asking to contact CRO either to update the email, or to retire as per the procedure on the wiki

NASA discussion / open science meeting

• Condrina reported on an informal meeting with ESA and NASA about open source communities at ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, attended by Codrina and Adam.
• This sparked a discussion to follow up on meeting with the NASA TOPS program.

Actions

• Board to review OGC/OSGeo MoU press release and make any comments by 3 June (Done)
• Codrina will ask Luca (FOSS4G Firenze LOC chair) if we can use the code sprint venue for a board meeting
• Anne Ghisla to prepare a page on voluntary retirement for the OSGeo wiki, board to approve before publication on wiki
• Angelos to e-mail NASA about open science meeting (Done)

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

IRC Log

• no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2022-06-27