Board Meeting 2024-03-26

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This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 26 March 2024 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
  4. Community project TorchGeo accepted into incubation with Brian Hamlin as mentor [1]
  5. FOSS4G 2026 [2]
  6. FOSS4G 2024 Status
  7. Formation of OSGeo Nepal chapter [3]
  8. GRASS Community Meeting budget [4]
  9. FOSS4G-Europe 2024 TGP application [5]
  10. OSGeo Website (or UserID) initiative [6]
  11. Add your topic here

Minutes

  • Presiding: Angelos
  • Scribing: Marco
  • Attending: Mike, Vicky, Tom, Angelos, Marco, Jeroen, Ariel, Codrina
  • Guests: Besfort, Scott, Andrea, Tatiana, Vasile

Review and approve past minutes

Community project TorchGeo accepted into incubation with Brian Hamlin as mentor

FOSS4G 2026

  • https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-March/013495.html
  • Jeroen: proposes moving the proposal schedule to earlier. Would like to have more than 1 year to organize.
  • Marco: would also be interesting for end users in knowing further ahead where FOSS4G will be.
  • Besfort: agrees it is a good idea
  • Vasile:
    • Uncertainty grows if you’ve 2 years in advance. Some people are also scared of planning so long into the future.
    • We never had anyone reusing a failed bid
    • We need to change some things but need to be careful
    • We need to do something to enhance the vote participation
  • Jeroen: should we open the committee to non past chairs
  • We need to request non voters if they want to step down
  • Extending voting times was not perceived well by the bidders. We should stick to the process.
  • Lets have this discussion again dk
  • ACTION CC: Ask CC members if they wish to remain active and involved or prefer to step down.
  • ACTION: organize a dedicated meeting within the next 2 months

FOSS4G 2024 Status

  • LOC presentation
  • Early bird registration starts 6 june 2024 and ends 23 August 2024 (Codrina requests to change this so people still have a chance to register at early bird rate when their presentation or workshop has been accepted)
  • Regular 26/8-01/12
  • Call for Talks & Workshops starts 5 May 2024 and ends 24/8
  • Academic papers starts 5 May 2024 and ends 8/8
  • ACTION: Angelos to make a Loomio motion about the Brazil Local Chapter.

OSGeo Website (or UserID) initiative

Scott would like to actively engage in the process to get a better understanding of what can drive end users to become active OSGeo members. This could be done through e.g. surveys among users at different events. Jeroen welcomes the action.

  • Action to be continued at the marketing committee level.

FOSS4G-Europe 2024 TGP application

Formation of OSGeo Nepal chapter

GRASS Community Meeting budget

Actions

IRC Log

  • no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

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