Board Meeting 2022-09-26
This board meeting is scheduled Monday 26 September 2022 at 15:00 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
- Meet with SmartGEO Expo group
- Project trademarks
- GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)
- OSGeo EU - ESA
- GeoForAll website updates
- Website
- FOSS4G 2022 budget questions
- Research Organization Registry entry [1]
- Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Michele
- Scribing: Angelos
- Attending: Michele, Codrina, Adam, Vicky, Angelos, Michael, Marco, Rajat
- Guests: Eric (SmartGEO Expo), Luca
Review and approve past minutes
Board_Meeting_2022-08-27
- Motion passed on Loomio. https://www.loomio.com/p/mz5eFTSA/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-08-27
Meet with SmartGEO Expo group
- Introduction to SmartGeo Expo (5 mins)
- Invitation for an OSGeo member to represent OSGeo
- Includes trip & accommodation
- MoU discussion
- Vicky might be able to join the event, else Sanghee can represent. (Mexico does not need visa for tourism)
- Start discussions during this year’s event.
- ACTION: Board to decide who is going to represent within 1 week (Done, Vicky will attend).
Project trademarks
- https://www.osgeo.org/legal-information/
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IP_Issues_Discussion_Document
- Example from QField
- Legal process, justify the trademark
- Cost is increasing depending on country number
- Ask previous board members involved in OSGeo trademark
- ACTION: Angelos to e-mail to Paul. ask for some research regarding cost.
- Wiki page, procedure on how to do this
Website
- Discuss: Member pages (hide members without filled profile)
- Action: Project's update officer's/representative
- Post Action: Generate automatically the list of project officers
- 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.
- Post Action?: Work the committees similarly as projects. Where officers can be assigned, and active members of the committee can be listed.
- Discuss: Charter member pages: User name + last name.===OSGeo EU - ESA===
- Discuss: Use tags on news items (to help out with the Annual report).
- Discuss: Auto move the old un-format-able "Biography" (Now Mission) to the format-able Biography.
- News Vs Community news
FOSS4G 2022 budget questions
- Work to finalize budget
- One sponsor went directly to OSGeo. (balance after surplus)
- Money from JRC (half from 2021, half from 2022) Proposal for LOC to keep most part of this money since they did proposal + deliverables. To be decided after surplus numbers are known.
- Travel grant money (balance after surplus)
Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework
- There is a number of projects in the queue
- ACTION: Contact the committee about status.
GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)
Moved to e-mail/next meeting
OSGeo EU - ESA
Moved to e-mail/next meeting
GeoForAll website updates
Moved to e-mail/next meeting
Research Organization Registry entry
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-September/013122.html
- Moved to e-mail/next meeting
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, a jitsi meeting