Board Meeting 2025-01-28

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 28 January 2025 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_2024-12-01
   • Board_Meeting_2024-12-30
4. CRO support system [1]
5. Retirement of inactive charter members
6. Executive positions
7. FOSS4G 2025 status update [2]
8. Social media accounts/x.com [3]
9. FOSS4G 2026 [4]
10. Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
11. Plan another meeting to discuss ways to increase revenue
12. OSGeo Code Sprint Location
13. OSGeo Budget 2025

1. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Codrina, all
• Attending: Mike, Codrina, Joana, Tom, Angelos, Vicky
• Guests: Luis Moreira de Sousa

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2024-12-01
• Motion pending after discussion
• Board_Meeting_2024-12-30
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/LqUGFrbQ/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2024-12-30

CRO support system

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-January/013631.html
• Presentation from Luis of the steps and assets used to run OSGeo elections, highlighting its shortcomings, i.e there is no versioning, nor concurrency control, replication etc., as well as offering its time and potential solutions to improve the system required to run the elections. Requirements: code repository on OSGeo Gitea,
• ACTION: Mike to open a ticket to SAC to make a back-up for the database of OSGeo elections.
• ACTION: Tom to make a motion on Loomio (Done) https://www.loomio.com/d/oFndaszO/approve-new-cro-support-system
• Motion passed on Loomio

Retirement of inactive charter members

• ACTION: Angelos to write a motion on Loomio for OSGeo to have a new charter members category: inactive charter members for the ones that have not voted for the last 3 elections (Done)
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/0LPrGWkI/motion-to-create-an-inactive-charter-members-category

Executive positions

Moved to next meeting

FOSS4G 2025 status update

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-January/013630.html
• ACTION: Angelos to ask them to join the next board meeting and also reply on the TGP request.

Social media accounts/x.com

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-January/013626.html
• ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio to approve. (Done)
• Update links point to Mastodon and keep the X account credentials.
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/tnGUe5fj/motion-to-update-web-site-links-to-point-to-mastodon-and-keep-the-x-account-credentials-inactive-

FOSS4G 2026

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2025-January/013625.html
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/rZxOqRVu/motion-to-award-foss4g-2026-to-hiroshima-loc

Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization

• Number of owners has already been reduced. Issue fixed.

Plan another meeting to discuss ways to increase revenue

• https://www.sovereign.tech/
• https://www.sovereign.tech/public/files/STF_blank_application_form.pdf
• ACTION: Joanna to research the option to submit a proposal
• Continue discussion on the next meeting

OSGeo Code Sprint Location

• ACTION: Codrina to contact ESA for BIDS (Done)
• ACTION: Angelos and Joanna to contact ESA for LPS

OSGeo Budget 2025

• ACTION: Tom to ask SAC about managed Discourse plans
• ACTION: Codrina to start drafting a message on behalf of the board regarding the significant changes in the budget
• ACTION: Angelos to move the budget on the wiki, then start a Loomio motion for the vote

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2025-02-25