Board Meeting 2018-04-11
This board meeting is scheduled for the 11th of April 2018 at 16.00 UTC through IRC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.
Agenda
Current items
Items in italic are recurring at each meeting.
Note that the meeting is limited to 1 hour.
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- OSGeo Europe - request for initial funding
- Sponsors update
- Incubation update
- Review PyWPS project graduation checklist, introduce Jachym Cepicky as officer.
- FOSS4GNA travel and coordination: can be breakout after the meeting
- MoU with YouthMappers following discussions in GeoForAll AB - [1]
- add your items here..
Last meeting 2018-03-01
Minutes
- Attending: mdsmith, astroidex, jodygarnett, kalxas, helena
- Presiding: helena
- Scribing: jody
Full, raw minutes notes
IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2018-04-11.log
Review and approve prior minutes
MOT1: Approve board meeting minutesBoard Meeting 2018-03-01
- +1 helena - initial motion
- +1 kalaxas - second
- +1 astroidex
- +0 mdsmith - not present
- +0 jodygarnett - not present
- https://www.loomio.org/d/AtNWJheu/approve-board-meeting-minutes-2018-03-01-
Face_to_Face_Meeting_Bonn_2018
- jodygarnett: not ready, transcribing from shared google document to help astrid
- adding items to https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
- astrid: not ready, has paper notes
OSGeo Europe - request for initial funding
- link is wrong, use https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2018-March/011318.html
- discussion on request, funds used to setup the organization (good idea based on osgeo experience)
- note that local chapters are not part of our organization legally, so this is a donation
- donation not sponsorship, osgeo-eu has not announced a sponsorship program
MOT2 Donate $2000 to osgeo-eu chapter
- jodygarnett: +1 initial motion
- helena: +1 seconded
- astroidex: +1
- mdsmith: +1
- kalxas: +1
- https://www.loomio.org/p/EYx20i7c/donate-2000-to-osgeo-eu-chapter
Sponsors update
Presenting sponsorship as "cross listing" has allowed more event sponsors to noice this program.
- WhereGroup added as silver sponsor
- Terrestris added as a silver sponsor
Incoming:
- WIGeoGis
Astrid volunteers to send email to fossgis and code sprint sponsors.
We will need to coordinate on contact details for sponsor/partner meetings.
Incubation update
PyWPS has met graduation requirements:
- https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/ProjectGraduationChecklist
- a lot of progress made at osgeo code sprint
- leaning on legal advice provided by board (on headers, etc...)
Jachym Cepicky as officer:
- request for link to responsibilities, unable to find a clear link
- available as contact for the board, provide a budget request, report in AGM
- Jachym created Project_officer page with this information
MOT3: Recognize PyWPS as a new OSGeo project, with Jachym as "VP of PyWPS" within our organization, and an initial committee budget of $2000 USD for 2018
- astroidex: +1 seconded
- mdsmith: +1
- helena: +1
- jodygarnett: +1 initial motion
- kalxas: +1
- https://www.loomio.org/d/vcAgpzQl/recognize-pywps-as-a-new-osgeo-project-with-jachym-as-vp-of-pywps-within-our-organization-and-an-initial-committee-budget-of-2000-usd-for-2018
Clarification from kalxas, budget transferring 2k from incubation budget to the new PyWPS project
MoU with YouthMappers
Sidebar on AGU partner:
- MOU_AGU_Announcement
- Good news about signed MOU, Peter is working on partner page.
YouthMappers agreement, following discussions in GeoForAll AB.
Review of draft MOU:
- /MOU_OSGeoYouthMappers
- take proposed edits to email, bring up for approval next meeting
FOSS4GNA travel and coordination
Breakout after the meeting:
- See Face_to_Face_Meeting_Bonn_2018#FOSS4G-NA_May
- Helena is available Monday 14 May, Tuesday 15 May, but needs to return for the 16th
- No word from Jeff
- please book hotel and travel
- event pass included with our "sponsorship" as an organizer