Board Meeting 2023-09-26

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 26 September 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_2023-08-29
4. INSPIRE conference 2023 participation
5. Review pending actions (EU CRA directive, FOSS4G Asia invitation, ESA MOI press release)
6. FOSS4G 2023 final accounting [1]
7. Community Sprint 2023 updates
8. UNGGIM - UN Committee
9. OSGeo - AGU MoU: Opportunity for renewal
10. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Vicky and Codrina
• Attending: Ariel, Angelos, Codrina, Michael, Vicky, Tom, Rajat
• Guests: Jody

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2023-08-29
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/6D0Tdqzg/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-08-29

INSPIRE conference 2023 participation

• Invitation:speak at to conference, late November, one or two members
• ACTION: Angelos will reply to Marco Minghini that Angelos and Codrina will definitely participate remotely, and in the next 2 days the two will also confirm whether they can also travel to participate onsite (Done).

Review pending actions

• EU CRA directive
  • Last time we discussed drafting an announcement, to publish on behalf of the OSGeo geospatial community.
  • ACTION: Angelos to contact Marco to see if he needs help in drafting this document. (Done)
  • Issue opened on gitea: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/159
• FOSS4G Asia invitation
  • ACTION: Angelos to confirm with Marco and Rajat about the participation in the conference. (Done)
• ESA MOI press release
  • ACTION: Codrina to share the draft of the announcement for the Board to contribute. It will also be shared with Astrid. Tom will also help.(Done)

FOSS4G 2023 final accounting

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-August/013359.html
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/rmIASNKy/motion-to-approve-foss4g-2023-prizren-final-accounting

Community Sprint 2023 updates

• Since our last meeting, the issue with the room payment has been solved through meetings between Angelos, Codrina and Marco, EOX people, PANGEO and ESA.
• ESA indeed has issues sponsoring food or US based entities, however it identified a way to support OSGeo. The payment of the room (without audio/video equipment) will probably be handled directly by ESA.
• We have the room for the full working day, 4 days.
• We have a new sponsor as well, IGN.
• What we need:
  • We need to bring our branding material, stickers

UNGGIM - UN Committee

• The participation in the session that took place in July in New York where I was looking at the possibility of interacting more actively, incorporating OSGeo into the thematic groups Geospatial Sociearity and thus collaborating in possible integrations with the group of experts. Site Event https://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/13th-Session/
• The incorporation of Digital public Goods is being developed from the Office of the UN Secretary in the roadmap, where the objective is Promoting open-source solutions for a more equitable world. https://www.un.org/techenvoy/content/digital-public-goods
• Discussion about the operation of the UN committee.

OSGeo - AGU MoU: Opportunity for renewal

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-August/013339.html
• Board welcomes an MOU renewal with AGU
• Recommend the new template

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2023-10-31