Board Meeting 2023-07-25
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This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 25 July 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
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
- Bolsena code sprint request for €2,000 EUR
- OpenGIS harmonization initiative
- GeoMajas project status
- Sponsors relationship maintenance
- ESA MOI
- Code sprint announcement
- EU CRA directive [1]
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: all
- Attending: Michael, Vicky, Angelos. Marco, Ariel, Rajat, Codrina
- Guests: John Gitau (UN habitat), Jody, Lior Kaplan
Review and approve past minutes
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
- Short introduction to GLTN and STDM
- Arnulf helping since 2014
- ACTION: Angelos to contact the UN committee, then provide feedback to John about volunteers.
- http://gltn.net/2016/10/22/meet-the-partner-open-source-geospatial-foundation-osgeo/
- https://gltn.net/gltn-partners-3/#professional
Bolsena code sprint request
- Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2023#Sponsoring
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-July/013312.html
- ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio.
OpenGIS harmonization initiative
- Discussion about the approved budget and the results of FOSS4G code sprint.
- The board will discuss through e-mail about the path forward.
GeoMajas project status
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/158
- GeoMajas is listed as a community project now, not active lately.
Sponsors relationship maintenance
- Lior Kaplan volunteering to help with sponsor contacting and update
- Vicky will share the information with Lior
- Discussion about a sponsors working group
- Follow up on sponsorship packs idea, so that sponsors can know at which events they will be visible.
- MOTION: Lior to become a member of the Finance Committee and have access to the sponsor's information. Motion by Michael, seconded by Angelos, all in favor. Approved during the meeting.
- ACTION Angelos to move to Loomio and get everyone to vote.
ESA MOI
- Discussion about the draft document and the feedback given on chat discussion.
- ACTION: Codrina to send an e-mail to the board mailing list with the draft to make it publicly available
- ACTION: Angelos to open a motion to approve
Code sprint announce
- Already published on the website.
- We need to make a follow up announcement with QGIS and Pangeo participation.
- ACTION: Angelos to follow up on e-mail
EU CRA directive
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2023-July/010092.html
- We need to raise awareness of this issue.
- ACTION: Angelos to plan a working session to involve projects and committees and prepare material for reaching out. Proposed date Thu 3rd August 18:00UTC.
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, Jitsi meeting