Board Meeting 2024-09-24

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 24 September 2024 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_2024-08-27
4. Elections 2024 status
5. AGM 2024
6. Budget 2025
7. Status of OSGeo as a 501(c)(3) organization
8. Website feedback
9. Review pending actions
10. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Vicky
• Attending: Angelos, Ariel, Rajat, Tom, Vicky
• Guests: Scott McHale

Review and approve past minutes

• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/oJng7wrt/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2024-08-27

Website feedback

• Scott presents some of the website survey findings
• Details about the website survey
• Mixed feedback on the responses, donations
• Feedback to be sent to Discourse

Elections 2024 status

Charter member elections ongoing - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2024

AGM 2024

• We have some reports from 2023
• We have 45 minutes for AGM in Belem
• ACTION: Vicky to create a new presentation (with a template slide)
• ACTION: Vicky and Angelos to announce on discuss/project/local chapter mailing lists (after previous action).

Budget 2025

• Send the budget at the end of October
• The new board will approve on December
• ACTION: Angelos to prepare the wiki page for 2025 budget and share a new spreadsheet with the board.
• ACTION: Angelos to prepare a draft message asking for budget requests.

Status of OSGeo as a 501(c)(3) organization

• We need to discuss with Mike about this one: moving to the next meeting.

Actions

• See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
• ACTION: Angelos to open motion on Loomio about executive positions (Done).

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2024-10-29