Board Meeting 2023-05-30

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 30 May 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
   • Board_Meeting_2023-04-25
4. FOSS4G Europe 2024
5. FOSS4G 2024
6. BIDS 2023 Code sprint updates
7. FOSS4G 2023 - Discussion with news floating around...
8. Additional request for deegree code sprint funding [1]
9. OSGeo Oceania Travel Grant Funding Request [2]
10. JRC meeting feedback
11. Sponsor communication [3]
12. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Codrina
• Scribing: Rajat, all
• Attending: Ariel, Angelos, Codrina, Michael, Rajat, Tom, Vicky, Marco
• Guests: Tonis

Review and approve past minutes

Board_Meeting_2023-03-28

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

Board_Meeting_2023-04-25

• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/rZblicFM/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-04-25

FOSS4G Europe 2024

• Conference is going to happen in Estonia; They need a letter of support which can be approved/replied by the board for an official communication
• Request to be sent to board mailing list

FOSS4G 2024

• Potential bid from Brazil to be sent on July 2023

BIDS 2023 Code sprint updates

• Discussions with the organizing committee to organize the code sprint
• November 6-9th in Vienna
• Registration is free
• Sponsorship visibility
• Catering sponsorship from OSGeo
• ACTION: Angelos to contact 2020 sponsors to confirm

FOSS4G 2023 - Discussion with news floating around...

• Ask LOC to send a note?
• Ask for a LOC update
• Registrations are moving forward

Additional request for deegree code sprint funding

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-May/013275.html
• ACTION: Angelos to make loomio motion.

OSGeo Oceania Travel Grant Funding Request

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-May/013287.html
• ACTION: Angelos to make loomio motion.

JRC meeting feedback

• Events
  • FOSS4G 2023 and European Track
  • Open Data Open Knowledge workshop https://earthobservations.org/odok2023.php
  • GEO Dialogue series
  • EuroGEO workshop 2023 https://egw2023.eurac.edu/
  • INSPIRE Conference 2023
• Work on open source geospatial software
  • OSGeoLive - updates from OSGeo
  • JRC support to open source tools (GeoNetwork, Re3gistry, ETF)
• Past item: Support to the Interoperable Europe Act
  • ACTION (Angelos): provide resources and interviews with OSGeo board/community members

Sponsor communication

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

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2023-07-01