Board Meeting 2023-04-25

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 25 April 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

1. roll call
2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2023-03-28
4. MoU between OSGEO Foundation, FLOSSK (FOSS4G 2023 LOC) and Municipality of Prizren
5. AGM preparations
6. Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
7. QGIS 2023 Code sprint
8. Geo Week 2024​
9. OSGeo Oceania Travel Grant
10. OSGeo participation in the ODOK workshop
11. Sponsor communication [todo:#154]
12. BIDS 2023 Code sprint
13. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Codrina
• Scribing: Angelos
• Attending: Michael, Codrina, Vicky, Angelos, Ariel, Rajat
• Guests: Jody

Review and approve past minutes

• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/8CTRnEcD/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-03-28

MoU between OSGEO Foundation, FLOSSK (FOSS4G 2023 LOC) and Municipality of Prizren

• Three party MOU
• Needed for funding approval
• Document shared from LOC
• Motion to be done after we receive the document back.

AGM preparations

• email already sent to discuss mailing list
• shall we do this in Sept and just have a discussion at FOSS4G?
• topics for discussion: Board report and then Sponsorship and FOSS4G
• ACTION: Vicky to send an e-mail to discuss and projects mailing list with our current plan (Done)

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request

• Shall we propose an MoU?
• ACTION: Angelos to send the template and respond that we are open to collaboration (Done).
• Terms of Reference document attached.

QGIS 2023 Code sprint

• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/BsmPZv98/motion-to-approve-5000-for-supporting-the-qgis-contributor-meeting

Geo Week 2024

• Planning ahead for 2024
• Are we interested in participating?
• Vendor heavy event, not a lot of open source.
• Low effort on our side.
• Would be valuable if we have people to actually keep a booth for the event.
• Table for now.

OSGeo Oceania Travel Grant

• Are we prepared to support this local event once again?
• They should submit a request and the board will consider.

OSGeo participation in the ODOK workshop

• Financing the person to travel.
• Estimate the cost and decide.

Sponsor communication

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/154
• ACTION: Mike to update the list
• Cross list sponsors from postponed code sprint. Angelos to check with them.

BIDS 2023 Code sprint

• November in Vienna. (https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/satellite-events)
• We could have an OSGeo room during the entire event (6 - 9 nov), where we'll organise ourselves
• We could have a booth - an OSGeo booth
• Proposing tutorials (workshops) is also a good opportunity for our projects.
• We could propose a Satellite Event (https://www.bigdatafromspace2023.org/satellite-events)
• ACTION: Codrina to send an e-mail to the sprint mailing list.

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2023-05-30