Board Meeting 2019-12-30
This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 December 2019 at 14:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- Onboarding
- Appoint new OSGeo Officers.
- Approve seed funds for FOSS4G 2021
- Review actions list.
- Question about the UNIGIS MoU https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_UNIGIS
- Add more agenda items here...
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: All, Astrid transfers the protocol to the wiki
- Attending: Mike, Astrid, Angelos, Till, Victoria, Helena, Cordrina
Review and approve past minutes Board Meeting 2019-12-09
2: MOT1: Approve meeting notes: 2019-12-09 https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-12-09
- Angelos: Motion started +1
- Mike: Seconded +1
- Codrina: +1
- Astrid: +1
- Till: +1
- Victoria: +1
- Helena: +1
- Vicky: +1
- Motion passed during the meeting
- Motion on Loomio https://www.loomio.org/d/uwKCv1d6/approve-meeting-minutes-for-2019-12-09
Discussion about Loomio
- Loomio is asking for a fee this year: 10 $ per year for entire group
- Alternatively we could install it on our own infrastructure
- Who is the owner of the loomio account? At the moment everybody of the board is registered. We have to find out whether there is an owner.
- After Discussion everyone would like to continue to work on loomio on the public version.
- ACTION: Michael - upgrade loomio account. (DONE by Michael. 10 $ per year for community members): Action Done
Onboarding
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors/OnboardingChecklist
- See also https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
Discussion about Face to Face meetings
- budget discussion will be done via video meeting, no f2f meeting needed
- we could meet at FOSS4G or in Athens at the Community Sprint
- decision is postponed for the time being, as not everybody will be in Calgary for sure
Bylaws
ACTION ALL BOARD MEMBERS please read the byLaws https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/
Appointing new Roles
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
Background Information about the different roles https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/
MOTION2: Appoint new OSGeo Officers
Board Members:
- Treasurer: Mike
- Secretary: Astrid
- Vice-President: Vicky
- Vice-President: Helena
- Vice-President: Victoria
- Vice-President: Codrina
- President: Angelos
- Chair: Till
- Motion needs 100 % voting and passed on Loomio https://www.loomio.org/d/wf2IraCe/appoint-new-osgeo-officers
- Motion passed on Loomio
Seed funds for FOSS4G 2021
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2019-December/012488.html
- ACTION Till talk to the Argentinian Team about the seed funding and the procedure of return of seed money and surplus
MOTION 3:: Approve seed funding for Argentina 2021 with negotiated % profit returned to OSGeo
- Angelos: +1
- Mike: +1
- Till: +1
- Astrid: +1
- Vicky: +1
- Helena: +1
- Victoria: +1
- Codrina: +1
- Motion passed during the meeting
- Motion on Loomio https://www.loomio.org/d/ne1vYE8S/seed-funds-for-foss4g-2021-
Action on Actions
- ACTION: Angelos to add previous actions on the gitea todo (Done)
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
Next meetings
Budget Meeting
- Budget meeting 13. January 15 UTC (2 hours Video Meeting) - Board Meeting 2020-01-13
- Angelos will send a reminder to the projects (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/55)
==== next regular meeting Next regular Meeting 27. January 16 UTC