Board Meeting 2022-09-26

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 26 September 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_2022-08-27
4. Meet with SmartGEO Expo group
5. Project trademarks
6. GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)
7. OSGeo EU - ESA
8. GeoForAll website updates
9. Website
10. FOSS4G 2022 budget questions
11. Research Organization Registry entry [1]
12. Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework
13. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Michele
• Scribing: Angelos
• Attending: Michele, Codrina, Adam, Vicky, Angelos, Michael, Marco, Rajat
• Guests: Eric (SmartGEO Expo), Luca

Review and approve past minutes

Board_Meeting_2022-08-27

• Motion passed on Loomio. https://www.loomio.com/p/mz5eFTSA/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-08-27

Meet with SmartGEO Expo group

• Introduction to SmartGeo Expo (5 mins)
• Invitation for an OSGeo member to represent OSGeo
  • Includes trip & accommodation
• MoU discussion
• Vicky might be able to join the event, else Sanghee can represent. (Mexico does not need visa for tourism)
• Start discussions during this year’s event.
• ACTION: Board to decide who is going to represent within 1 week (Done, Vicky will attend).

Project trademarks

• https://www.osgeo.org/legal-information/
• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IP_Issues_Discussion_Document
• Example from QField
• Legal process, justify the trademark
• Cost is increasing depending on country number
• Ask previous board members involved in OSGeo trademark
• ACTION: Angelos to e-mail to Paul. ask for some research regarding cost.
• Wiki page, procedure on how to do this

Website

• Discuss: Member pages (hide members without filled profile)
• Action: Project's update officer's/representative
  • Post Action: Generate automatically the list of project officers
• Discuss: Statement on report slide mentions that: "From the committees' pages you will find the missions, names of the people involved, and links to the working documents." That is not true.
  • Post Action?: Work the committees similarly as projects. Where officers can be assigned, and active members of the committee can be listed.
• Discuss: Charter member pages: User name + last name.===OSGeo EU - ESA===
• Discuss: Use tags on news items (to help out with the Annual report).
• Discuss: Auto move the old un-format-able "Biography" (Now Mission) to the format-able Biography.
• News Vs Community news

FOSS4G 2022 budget questions

• Work to finalize budget
• One sponsor went directly to OSGeo. (balance after surplus)
• Money from JRC (half from 2021, half from 2022) Proposal for LOC to keep most part of this money since they did proposal + deliverables. To be decided after surplus numbers are known.
• Travel grant money (balance after surplus)

Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework

• There is a number of projects in the queue
• ACTION: Contact the committee about status.

GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)

Moved to e-mail/next meeting

OSGeo EU - ESA

Moved to e-mail/next meeting

GeoForAll website updates

Moved to e-mail/next meeting

Research Organization Registry entry

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-September/013122.html
• Moved to e-mail/next meeting

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2022-10-17