Board Meeting 2023-10-31

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 31 October 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_2023-09-26
4. Review pending actions (EU CRA directive, FOSS4G Asia invitation)
5. Community Sprint 2023 updates
6. Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF Code Sprint 2024
7. Elections status (update from CRO)
8. Start process for OSGeo Budget 2024
9. OSGeo Sponsorship Request for Pista ng Mapa [1]
10. MOU renewal with AGILE
11. OSGeo representation at the EU Open Source Policy Summit, regarding CRA
    1. Iván Sánchez volunteers to participate (panel? talk?) there.
12. Overture Maps and standards
13. Purchase GMAIL Business Starter account for foss4g-europe.org domain. Details at 2997
14. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Codrina
• Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Michael, Tom, Ariel, Vicky, Rajat
• Guests: Simone Giannecchini, Jody Garnett, Iván Sánchez

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2023-09-26
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/paxZeOfP/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-09-26

Review pending actions

• FOSS4G Asia invitation:
  • Rajat can’t go. Jody is attending and can represent OSGeo. We don’t know yet if Marco can attend.
  • ACTION: Angelos to reply and nominate Jody to represent OSGeo (Done)
• EU CRA directive
  • Ticket: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/159
  • notes collected from community meeting
  • Background reading: https://www.euractiv.com/section/cybersecurity/news/eu-policymakers-advance-on-open-source-software-support-period-in-new-cybersecurity-law/
  • Board did not manage to draft the answer yet, even if already met on the topic
  • Oct 20: deadline for collecting feedback and we missed on that
  • Nov 8: when the collected answers will be circulated by the EC. A small update from the OSGeo to the community should be sent to discuss mailing list: CRA matters, this affects our ecosystem and it is useful to talk to your local politician.
  • ACTION: draft the (short) answer of OSGeo (Jody, Angelos, Simone and Ivan) (Done).
  • Draft available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_k4RRDs8ZOODMsUyrMnhGI2SNzi5gCFekzfDfBurUA/edit#heading=h.fkxiqlqdj0eu
  • https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/eu-cyber-resilience-act/

OSGeo representation at the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024, regarding CRA

• https://summit.openforumeurope.org/
• Motion to cover the expenses from the board for Ivan travel
  • Motion by Angelos, seconded by Michael, all in favor
  • Motion passes unanimous
• ACTION: Jody to contact the Summit people to see if Ivan can get a slot to talk

Elections status (update from CRO)

• Ivan: We are a bit late with the process
• We need to set the board election process timeline: mid Nov to start the nomination for board members

Community Sprint 2023 updates

• Venue fully paid by ESA
• EOX is organizing the sprint social event (80 people for 6k)
• 53 from the wiki, about 140 from the BiDS registration

Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF Code Sprint 2024

• Tom: OGC&Apache&OSGeo discussion to organise the 2024 one: February (the week of 26: Monday - Thursday) Location - Évora, Portugal, at the University
• The venue is available for the last week of February;
• ACTION: (Tom) send email to discuss mailing list once we have an update from Gobe Hobona saying what dates we are considering.

Start process for OSGeo Budget 2024

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2024
• ACTION: Angelos to send out announcements to projects for them to send their request for the budget
• Jody: to introduce in the message to the projects: How sponsors can support them with in 2024? Example: GeoTools-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities

• The goal is to ask projects for their “project budget” for 2024:
  • Ask what opportunities there are for sponsors and OSGeo to support?
  • Then in that context ask what financial support they would like from OSGeo to meet those goals/objectives/maintenance
  • Ensure we have a template for projects to copy and paste: (the only communication that matters)

OSGeo Sponsorship Request for Pista ng Mapa

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-September/013369.html
• ACTION: Angelos to do a Loomio motion for OSGeo to support at Major Sponsor level (4000 USD)(Done)
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/WF568OVe/motion-for-osgeo-to-support-pista-ng-mapa-at-major-sponsor-level-4000-usd-

MOU renewal with AGILE

• ACTION: Angelos to send them the MOU template (Done)
• We are willing to move forward

Overture Maps and standards

• Overture Maps is a foundation coming up with geospatial data and products without involving much of the geospatial standards
• Geomob podcast: https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-163
• ACTION for all
  • Read and come back for discussion in next meeting
  • Please consider the feedback from Miriam: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-November/013394.html

Purchase GMAIL Business Starter account for foss4g-europe.org domain

• ACTION: Vicky to ask Regina
• ACTION: Angelos to create a Loomio motion to approve.

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2023-11-28