Board Meeting 2018-02-01
This board meeting is scheduled for 1 Feb 2018 (first Thursday of each month) at [1] through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Approve previous meeting minutes
- Approve previous F2V meeting minutes
- Approve previous F2V meeting minutes
- Discussion of meetings schedule (frequency). Currently we meet on the first Thursday of the month, additional breakout face-to-video or face-to-face meetings as required.
- Motion to meet at 15 UTC instead of 14 UTC (discussed at the end of last meeting with some members)
- FOSS4G vision by Board (video streaming, etc)
- (done) Renew mandate for GSoC 2018 admin team (thread).
- Review/revise sponsors program for 2018
- Review action items from previous meeting
- Confirm/update process for projects to get signing certificate(s) through SAC (GRASS needs one for MacOSX), see 2015 motion
- Project reviews (gvSIG)
- Discuss alternative to dropbox
- Relationship with AGU & possible MoU (thread)
- Discuss possibility of a Charter Members meeting, as part of the OSGeo Code Sprint in March (thread)
- Coordination and planning Face to Face Meeting Bonn 2018
- Update on Video Committee
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Video_Committee / contact to c3voc, ToDo AE send Mail to participate
- ...
Minutes
Appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Attending: Jody, Angelos, Maria A., Astrid, Vasile, Jeff, Helena
- Guests: Mario, Strk, Vicky, Madi
- Presiding: Jody
- Scribing: Astrid
Actions
- tbd - Actions are in the text at the moment. Astrid will move them later to this section
Motions
MOT1: Approve board meeting minutes 2017-12-07.
- Motion by ...
- Seconded by ...
- Approve:
- Abstain:
- Block:
- Moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/meW9YsON/approve-board-meeting-minutes-2017-11-21
- please review and vote and have a look at action items and take action items to email.
- Approve previous meeting minutes
- Approve previous F2V meeting minutes
- Approve previous F2V meeting minutes
MOT: Change monthly IRC meeting timeslot: April -> October 14:00 UTC, November -> March 15:00 UTC ?
- Astrid will take this motion to loomio for electronic voting
MOT2: Motion to approve the request Madi: GSoC team provide the funding (500USD) for another event
- Motion by Angelos
- Seconded by Astrid
- Approve: Maria, Helena, Astrid, Kalxas, Jody
- Abstain: Jeff as GSC Admin
- Block: -
- Moved to Loomio: not needed
MOT3: next meeting March 1st
- Motion by Jody
- Seconded by Astrid
- Approve: Maria, Helena, Astrid, Kalxas, Jody
- Abstain: Jeff as GSC Admin
- Block: -
- Moved to Loomio: not needed
Topics
FOSS4G vision by Board
- (video streaming, etc)
TIB as Partner
- Wourl be great to add TIB as OSGeo Partner, new page on new Webside
- [ACTION] Jeff and Astrid will work on a MOU, MOU will be signified during OSGeo Code Sprint in Bonn
- (done) Renew mandate for GSoC 2018 admin team (thread).
Review/revise sponsors program for 2018
- STatus: sponsorship 2018 is live, news posts can be made
Reach out to:
- [ACTION] UN Committee Maria voluteers
- [ACTION] FOSS4G - no sponsorship packages avaialble on the website
- [ACTION] Conference Committee - for travel grant program
- [ACTION] Jody will communicate via email, plan is to encourage committees
Review action items from previous meeting
- bank account will be done in Bonn, Angelos and Michael are still in discussion, Astrid can help
- [DONE] Astrid: blogpost / news_item announcing new executive officers
- All book travel/accommodation for f2f meeting and send details to treasurer for reimbursement.
- Astrid to create a wiki page describing "charter member meeting" and review with board. Compose an invitation email to send to charter members and review with board before sending out.
Confirm/update process for projects to get signing certificate(s) through SAC
- (GRASS needs one for MacOSX), see 2015 motion
- SAC will "authorize" GRASS team to contact treasurer@osgeo.org who has credentials.
- Michael has the credentials
Project reviews GvSIG
- presented by Mario Carrera (mcarrera) new Chair
- GvSIG Report 2017 https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Report_2017
- release plan: 2.4 final version this month, and the 2.5 one after September
- [ACTION] please update the osgeo branding http://www.gvsig.com (has the old logo)
- [ACTION] And can the gvSig Assoication add their remaining projects to the OSGeo website (see list here https://www.osgeo.org/partners/gvsig-association/ )
- GvSIG had the TSC mailing list in Joinup but they deleted the mailing lists from there without informing us (including developers mailing list)
- [ACTION] apply for mailing lists at OSGeo - Mario will open a ticket
- sponsorship of gvSig association "donate" button http://www.gvsig.com/en/web/guest/contribution. Notice from Jody: If you do set up a larger sponsorship program, or if sponsors can support gvSig events. Please let them know about being cross listed on the osgeo sponsors website.
Discuss alternative to dropbox
- discussion is moved to email
- [ACTION] find alternative
GEOS
- report nby strk
- not much to say, development is slow, some contributions go some new come (cvvergara)
- still lack a logo but hadn't found the time to organize students to help with that https://www.osgeo.org/projects/geos/
- still track JTS
- experiment of managing code under Gitea so far didn't raise any major issue
- trac/gitea/git interaction is smooth (except for annoyingly slow services) - help of OSGeo could be: making the infrastructure faster
- there are no PSC meetings - instead: if anything major needs to be decided a motion is started ont hthe mailing list
- geos-devel is active
- team is in the process of upgrading the code to more modern c++
- [ACTION] ask temporary sysadmin (Martin Spott) to figure out why services are so slow
10. GSOC renew mandiate
- I just wanted to follow up on this and inform you about the outcome. For FOSDEM 2018, 2 students applied to the grant. The conveners assigned the
[16:07] <kalxas> grant to one student. Meanwhile the other student withdrew his submission. [16:07] <kalxas> After that, also the student that had been assigned the grant had to [16:07] <kalxas> withdraw the submission for personal reason. Eventually the grant was not [16:07] <kalxas> assigned. I assume we can consider this amount (500USD) to sum up to the 3k [16:07] <mcarrera> Bye! [16:07] <kalxas> budget that we have been assigned, and assign the grant to another GSoC [16:07] --> tomkralidis (~tomkralid@osgeo/member/tomkralidis) hat diesen Kanal betreten. [16:07] <kalxas> student when the request comes for another event? [16:07] <jive[m]> kalxas: you have the floor
Relationship with AGU & possible MoU
- thread)
- Peter Löwe and Jeff wrote along introduction to AGU team before christmas 2017 and they responded in january 2018
- Peter Löwe and Jeff are now working on the MoU draft
- [ACTION] Jeff will send the MoU for review to the board
- Discuss possibility of a Charter Members meeting, as part of the OSGeo Code Sprint in March (thread)
F2F Meeting Bonn
- Coordination and planning Face to Face Meeting Bonn 2018
- Astrid can open the doors on Saturday 13:00 UTC or 14:00 UTC
Member meeting
- Meeting is planned for Bonn Monday 19.3. in basecamp
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Member_Meeting_Bonn_2018
- no budget yet [ACTION] Astrid will write a mail to discuss the budget
Topics not discussed during the meeting
- Update on Video Committee
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Video_Committee / contact to c3voc, ToDo AE send Mail to participate