Board Meeting 2022-10-17
This board meeting is scheduled Monday 17 October 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
- Review Smart Geo Expo MoU
- FOSS4G 2023
- Geo-ethics Locus Charter
- GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal (2nd reminder)
- OSGeo EU - ESA
- GeoForAll website updates
- Website
- Research Organization Registry entry [1]
- Elections and CoC
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Michele
- Scribing: Rajat
- Attending: Adam, Angelos, Codrina, Michele, Rajat, Vicky, Marco
- Guests: Brian Hamlin, Besfort Guri, Valmir (FLOSSK)
Review and approve past minutes
- Motion to approve Board_Meeting_2022-09-26 open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/GFQhYd0n/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-09-26
Review Smart Geo Expo MoU
Link to the MoU draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1raqBOJv7yB7HWikUx3Pk8h3ypKbXfLxXRtSIY7w1pr4/edit
- Updates: Description about cooperation between the stakeholders.
- Two Liaisons are required to be nominated. Vicky is temporary liaison for OSGeo.
- Signing ceremony is scheduled on November 3rd, 2022.
- ACTIONS:
- Review more previous MoUs to add a clause for promoting open-source and make it stronger.
- One week for the board to review the draft and provide comments.
- Vicky to reach out to the OSGeo Korea local chapter.
FOSS4G 2023
Guest: Besfort Guri, Valmir
- Intent by the FOSS4G 2023 LOC to join the next board meeting (Oct 31, 2022) and present updates.
- ACTION: Invite Co-chairs to the planned meeting.
Geo-ethics Locus Charter
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-August/013080.html
- TODO: Review and approve the charter(https://ethicalgeo.org/locus-charter/) for signing
- ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio (Done).
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/ZnBP1dtL/motion-to-approve-and-sign-the-locus-charter
GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal (2nd reminder)
- https://gistam.scitevents.org/
- Questions: What are their requirements from this partnership? Is it an MoU? Is it just a cross-promotion activity? Would they provide a booth or keynote?
- ACTION: Codrina to send email with the questions
OSGeo EU - ESA
- ACTION: Codrina and Marco to attend a f2f meeting in early November and update board about the discussion
GeoForAll website updates
- ACTION: Vicky to present updates post FOSS4G Asia 2022 (Smart GeoExpo 2022)
Website
- ACTION: Vicky to present updates post FOSS4G Asia 2022 (Smart GeoExpo 2022)
Research Organization Registry entry
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-September/013122.html
- ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio
- ACTION: Angelos to register OSGeo after motion is approved
Elections and CoC
- TODO in Policy - Points to consider
- Board/CRO can veto or block any charter/board nomination?
- The list of nominations maybe be cross-checked by the CoC committee
- Blacklisting procedure? Timeline?
- ACTION: Vicky to schedule a meeting with the CoC Committee
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, a jitsi meeting