Board Meeting 2019-11-25

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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 November 2019 at 16:00 - 17:00 UTC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

  1. roll call
    • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
  2. Review and approve past minutes
  3. PROJ incubation graduation, recognition as OSGeo Project
    • PROJ has completed PROJ Incubation Checklist, Micheal Smith acting as mentor, reviewed and accepted by the incubation committee
    • Kristian Evers has volunteered as project officer
    • We may wish to update 2019 budget to reflect new project
  4. Rasdaman has met requirements to join OSGeo Community program
    • Requirements have been reviewed and accepted by the incubation committee, see email list for details
  5. Funding for workshop in AfricaGIS 2019 conference [1]
  6. Contacting projects and committees for OSGeo Budget 2020
  7. Review OSGeo Project Map Fish status
    • Project has been renamed to GeoMapFish
    • No longer meets osgeo project requirements (although PSC asked for more time and we were glad they took part in AGM)
  8. GeoNetwork open layers migration code-sprint funding request 500 EUR
  9. OSGEO4W roadmap initial discussion

Minutes

  • Presiding: Maria
  • Scribing: Angelos
  • Attending: Victoria, Michael, Angelos, Tom, Maria, Astrid, Helena, Jody

'Review and approve past minutes

Board Meeting 2019-08-24 Face to Face Meeting Bucharest 2019


Board Meeting 2019-11-04

  • Maria MOT2: Approve Minutes from 2019-11-04
  • Approved


PROJ incubation graduation, recognition as OSGeo Project

PROJ has completed PROJ Incubation Checklist, Micheal Smith acting as mentor, reviewed and accepted by the incubation committee, Kristian Evers has volunteered as project officer, We may wish to update 2019 budget to reflect new project

Michael Smith as mentor provided background on why PROJ entered incubation. As a long standing project "the review went fairly quick as much had already been done"

  • Maria MOT3: Recognize PROJ as an OSGeo Project
  • approved
  • Jody MOT4: Recognize Kristian Evers as project officer for the PROJ
  • Approved
  • Maria MOT5: Extend budget of 2019 to cover PROJ
  • Motion not approved
  • Project representative was not present, and project has not requested an amount
  • action: Michael smith will reach out to the project about budget action money handling
  • action: Michael smith to make news item for website
  • action: (done) update project status on website

Update: EvenR attended late as Kristian was unavailable, other members could not quite figure out where the meeting is, etc...

Rasdaman has met requirements to join OSGeo Community program

Requirements have been reviewed and accepted by the incubation committee, see email list for details.

  • Angelos MOT 6: Approve Rasdaman as an OSGeo Community Project
  • Approved
  • Some confusion about board or incubation committee making these changes

Update: pedbau attended a bit later for rasdaman project and was congratulated, will coordinate with jody on new item announcement.

Funding for workshop in AfricaGIS 2019 conference

Email request Funding for workshop in AfricaGIS 2019 conference
  • This activity already completed last week, for GIS Day
  • This was not addressed last meeting due to lack of budget information. Pekka was busy and did not have time to write back about budget/funding
  • Pekka was not invited to the meeting
  • Event looked successful on twitter

Contacting projects and committees for OSGeo Budget 2020

  • action: Angelous to contact projects and committees for 2020 budget
  • this activity will largely fall to the next board

Review OSGeo Project Map Fish status

Project has been renamed to GeoMapFish, No longer meets osgeo project requirements (although PSC asked for more time and we were glad they took part in AGM)

  • Email discussion was extensive,
  • "Will the real mapfish please swim up
  • Discussion how how to handle
    • Maira/Angelos asks if we can continue via email, if the old PSC and new PSC find common ground
    • Jody focused on the MapFish and GeoMapFish projects not meeting our graduation requirements, and not oppertuning as an OSGeo committee
  • GeoMapFish PSC asked for a delay in august
  • Discussion on if this is the incubation committee, or osgeo board issue to resolve
    • Committee formed at end of graduation, and reports to board, it has been inactive as a committee
  • Michael: "ship of theseus problem"
  • Maria MOT8: Remove Mapfish from OSGeo Projects and start negotiating with GeoMapFish to join us
    • Got stuck on meaning of negotiate
  • Maria: Remove Mapfish from OSGeo Projects and invite GeoMapFish to join us
    • Maria: +0
    • Michael: +1
    • kalxas: -1
    • Tom: +1
    • Motion not passed
  • Maria: MOT8: Move Mapfish to Community Project status
  • Approved
  • Action: Jody to ask MapFish for code of conduct file

GeoNetwork open layers migration code-sprint

funding request 500 EUR, GeoNetwork's operational budget updated to reflect PSC decisions

  • No geonetwork-psc representative present, Jeroen is project officer
  • Maira indicates project budget is not spent, PSC could make use of that for code sprint
  • Jody attended geonetwork PSC meeting, operational budget already allocated
    • project operational budget not the same thing as a code sprint budget request
  • Maria MOT9: Approve GeoNetwork codesprint funding request (500â EURO)
    • Approved

OSGEO4W roadmap initial discussion

Maria requests an extension to Meeting time to take in this item.

OSGEO4W email from Paolo

    • technical discussion, request to use condo vs osgeo4w

Actions

  • TBD

IRC Log

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