Board Meeting 2026-02-24

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 24 February 2026 at 17:00 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_2026-01-26
4. Finalize board executive positions
5. Recognize TorchGeo as OSGeo Project via recent Incubation Committee vote LINK
6. Funding ideas for 2026
7. Update on Pretalx (Jeroen)
8. Update on OSGeo legal entity in Europe (The Netherlands) (Jeroen)
9. Update on Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-06 - A services and business incubator for geospatial open-source developments (Jeroen)
10. Conference Committee (Loc FOSS4G 2027)
11. Cyber Resilience Act
12. New membership process
13. Sponsoring program OSGeo
14. Respond to OSGeo member survey on the impact of LLMs on open-source projects proposal
15. Email from The FOSS Club at Delhi Technical Campus - Manya Yadav (4 February 2026)
16. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Jeroen
• Scribing: Angelos, all
• Attending: Mike, Jeroen, Vicky, Tim, Codrina, Angelos, Joana, Tom, Marco
• Guests: Brian Hamlin, Luis de Sousa

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2026-01-26
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/qoJLfcSp/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2026-01-26

Recognize TorchGeo as OSGeo Project via recent Incubation Committee vote

• Brian Hamlin reporting as mentor of the TorchGeo project
• MOTION: Motion to recognize TorchGeo as OSGeo Project
• Motion passed during the meeting: +1 by: Mike, Jeroen, Vicky, Tim, Codrina, Angelos, Joana, Tom

Finalize board executive positions

• https://www.loomio.com/d/5jiKNtgb/executive-positions-2026
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGGGl57ld8q5WlpYcL-tBF1p7bKiREs385DrCfyZCOw/edit?usp=sharing
• Discussion about hiring a secretary and potentially sharing the role with QGIS
• Board process agreed: Votes on separate topics within the board meeting are approved through the approval of the meeting minutes on Loomio.
• MOTION: Approve board executive positions for 2026.
  • President (Jeroen)
  • Vice President Europe (Codrina)
  • Vice President North America (Tom)
  • Vice President South America (Vicky)
  • Vice President Asia (Vicky)
  • Vice President Africa (Tim)
  • Vice President Oceania (Marco)
  • Treasurer (Mike)
  • Secretary (To be determined in the future - Follow up with QGIS)
  • Liaison role for System Administration Committee (Tom)
  • Liaison role for Conference Committee, FOSS4G conferences and code sprints (Codrina)
  • Liaison role for Sponsor and supporting memberships (Tim)
  • Liaison role for Marketing and Website (Tim)
  • Liaison role for Project monitoring and reporting (Angelos)
• Motion passed during the meeting: no objections

Funding ideas for 2026

• Joana shared a deck here:
  • Funding platforms like gh sponsors, paypal etc. should be more visible on the website
  • Swag incentives
  • Targeted fund raising and using ambassadors to coordinate funding activities
  • Business membership
  • need to coordinate with regional LOCs about sponsorships

Update on Pretalx

• Jeroen contacted Pretalx team
• 4000 euros per 12 events
• Luca volunteered to move the administration to the managed system.
• Discussion about yearly charge vs per event. If we pay per event we might stop using it in regional events.
• Volunteer managed rather than moving to outside

Respond to OSGeo member survey on the impact of LLMs on open-source projects proposal

• https://gitea.osgeo.org/Lads/llm-survey
• https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/B7YKQ7-oss-in-spite-of-ai/
• The board accepted the proposal.

Update on OSGeo legal entity in Europe (The Netherlands)

• Making progress, expecting to see results in the next 2 weeks

Update on Horizon Europe call - A services and business incubator for geospatial open-source developments

• No details about the project here due to this being completely out in the open

Conference Committee (LoI FOSS4G 2027)

• Postponed to next meeting

Cyber Resilience Act

• Postponed to next meeting

New membership process

• Postponed to next meeting

Sponsoring program OSGeo

• Postponed to next meeting

Email from The FOSS Club at Delhi Technical Campus - Manya Yadav (4 February 2026)

• Postponed to next meeting

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• TBD