Board Meeting 2022-08-27

This board meeting is scheduled Saturday 27 August 2022 at 07:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker. F2F meeting at code sprint venue in Florence Italy

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2022-07-25
4. approve pygeoapi as OSGeo project
   1. currently in vote on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/XjpcFNvf/graduate-pygeoapi-as-an-osgeo-project
   2. https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2022-August/004535.html
   3. https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-August/013087.html
5. OGC Updates
   1. MOU
   2. OSGeo OGC Committee
   3. Reference implementations
   4. Budget for OGC participation (meetings/code sprint attendance, etc.)
6. Elections
   1. CRO members for 2022 elections
7. Summary of F2F meeting with OSGeo/OSM/HOT communities
8. FOSS4G locations
9. Geo-ethics Locus Charter
10. Projects:
    1. OSSIM inactive for 3 years (statement based on Report from incubator)
    2. MapFish inactive for 3 years (statement based on Report from incubator)
    3. Marble has not reported for 2 years
11. Website
    1. Discuss: Member pages (hide members without filled profile)
    2. Action: Project's update officers/representative
       1. Post Action: Generate automatically the list of project officers
    3. Discuss: Statement on report slide mentions that: "From the committees' pages you will find the missions, names of the people involved, and links to the working documents." That is not true.
       1. Post Action?: Work the committees similarly as projects. Where officer can be assigned, and active members of the committee can be listed.
    4. Discuss: Charter member pages: Use name + last name.
    5. Discuss: Use tags on news items (to help out with the Annual report).
    6. Discuss: Auto move the old un-format-able "Biography" (Now Mission) to the format-able Biography.
    7. News Vs Community news
12. OSGeo Code Sprint 2023
13. Creation of Conference Working Group
14. Feedback from AGM
    1. Sustainability - how to operate FOSS4G in a climate and ecosystem crisis (Vincent P)
    2. Engaging younger contributors (?)
    3. Project retirement (Louis de Souza)
    4. UN open GIS: OSGEO board rep? What does OSGeo want?
       1. Why are we promoting hybrid GIS? Can OSGeo put money into crisis response?
       2. People need to have a ‘whole solution’ - are we communicating enough that there are companies that can respond
       3. Advocacy challenge: maybe its not a company, people can just do it (Jody)
    5. OSGeo in research (Peter Lowe)
15. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding:
• Scribing:
• Attending:
• Guests:

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2022-09-26