Board Meeting 2023-07-25

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 25 July 2023 at 18:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on Loomio and actions on the 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_2023-07-01
4. Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
5. Bolsena code sprint request for €2,000 EUR
6. OpenGIS harmonization initiative
7. GeoMajas project status
8. Sponsors relationship maintenance
9. ESA MOI
10. Code sprint announcement
11. EU CRA directive [1]
12. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: all
• Attending: Michael, Vicky, Angelos, Marco, Ariel, Rajat, Codrina
• Guests: John Gitau (UN habitat), Jody, Lior Kaplan

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2023-07-01
  • Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/7yY4zJiB/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-07-01

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request

• Short introduction to GLTN and STDM
• Arnulf helping since 2014
• ACTION: Angelos to contact the UN committee, then provide feedback to John about volunteers (Done).
• http://gltn.net/2016/10/22/meet-the-partner-open-source-geospatial-foundation-osgeo/
• https://gltn.net/gltn-partners-3/#professional

Bolsena code sprint request

• Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2023#Sponsoring
• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-July/013312.html
• ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio (Done).
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/FQ7Ty1u3/motion-to-approve-bolsena-code-sprint-request-for-2000-euros

OpenGIS harmonization initiative

• Discussion about the approved budget and the results of FOSS4G code sprint.
• The board will discuss through e-mail about the path forward.

GeoMajas project status

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/158
• GeoMajas is listed as a community project now, not active lately.

Sponsors relationship maintenance

• Lior Kaplan volunteering to help with sponsor contacting and update
• Vicky will share the information with Lior
• Discussion about a sponsors working group
• Follow up on sponsorship packs idea, so that sponsors can know at which events they will be visible.
• MOTION: Lior to become a member of the Finance Committee and have access to the sponsor's information. Motion by Michael, seconded by Angelos, all in favor. Approved during the meeting.
• ACTION Angelos to move to Loomio and get everyone to vote (Done).
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/ZkUPCQAi/motion-for-lior-kaplan-to-become-a-member-of-the-finance-committee-and-have-access-to-the-sponsor-s-information-

ESA MOI

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_ESA
• Discussion about the draft document and the feedback given on chat discussion.
  • Adam has expressed the opinion that the word "enforce" in Exhibit A could be changed to "use". The reasons are: 1. the MoI(U) doesn't give either organization power to enforce anything. 2. OSGeo shouldn't be about enforcing things, with external organizations - we can lead, mentor, encourage.
  • During the meeting the wording was discussed. The word "enforce" is on ESA’s side and not OSGeo. It explains why ESA signs this MoI: “In this context, the current MoI represents a key strategic element to enforce open source practices and maximise outreach and community building for the open source components developed under the ESA EO Science for Society activities.”
  • We agreed that this is ok on OSGeo side. It does not imply whatsoever that OSGeo is an enforcer. Some organizations need/use such language on regulations and agreements.
• ACTION: Codrina to send an e-mail to the board mailing list with the draft to make it publicly available (Done) [2]
• ACTION: Angelos to open a motion to approve (Done)
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/QlL45DxV/motion-to-approve-the-memorandum-of-intent-with-the-european-space-agency

Code sprint announce

• Already published on the website [3].
• We need to make a follow up announcement with QGIS and Pangeo participation.
• ACTION: Angelos to follow up on e-mail (Done)

EU CRA directive

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2023-July/010092.html
• We need to raise awareness of this issue.
• ACTION: Angelos to plan a working session to involve projects and committees and prepare material for reaching out. Proposed date Tue 8th August 13:00UTC. (Done)

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2023-08-29