Board Meeting 2022-12-12

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 12 December 2022 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2022-11-28
4. Project trademarks update
5. MoU Template [1]
6. Renew MoU with UCGIS MOU_UCGIS
7. MoU with GISwater
8. Approve OSGeo Oceania TGP request
9. OSGeo European Local Chapter
10. Review Action items [2]
11. Communicate Sponsorship opportunities for 2022-2023 [3]
12. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Rajat
• Attending: Vicky, Michael, Codrina, Michele, Rajat, Angelos, Marco, Adam, Tom
• Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2022-11-28
• Motion passed on Loomio https://www.loomio.com/p/is5Z6rEG/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-11-28

Project trademarks update

• Financial support is required for application process
• Support can be provided in forms of tutorials or getting started process
• Q: Is OSGeo Trademarked? (NextCloud documents or Quickbooks)
• Q: Is FOSS4G trademarked?
  • https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/71
• ACTION: Codrina to create a wiki page defining the process for getting started for the process
• ACTION: Mike will explore the USPTO application process for Trademark

MoU Template

• MoU Template
• Board can discuss and approve so this template can be presented to organizations wishing to partner up with us.
• ACTION: Resolve the comments and create a Loomio motion

Renew MoU with UCGIS

• An existing MoU gives an opportunity to negotiate
• Board reviews and provide modifications/add to the existing MoU
  • TODO: Add Level of commitment from the participating organizations
• ACTION: Adam to translate the existing OSGeo-UCGIS MoU to the new proposed MoU template

MoU with GISwater

• Since GISwater has a project joining as OSGeo Community Project
• ACTION: Codrina to draft a response to GISWater

Approve OSGeo Oceania TGP request

• Conference Committee has approved the motion (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-December/005885.html)
• Approved by board during the meeting

OSGeo European Local Chapter

• Local Chapter would help organizations working in Europe for collaborating with OSGeo
• ISSUE: Missing liaison for the existing OSGeo European local chapter
• ACTION: Codrina to communicate with the existing local chapter to know the status
• Based on the response to action, next step can be finalized; (Can a new OSGeo Europe local chapter be started?)

Review Action items

• Moved to next meeting
• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues

Communicate Sponsorship opportunities for 2022-2023

• Moved to next meeting with an invitation to Marketing committee
• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/106

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2022-12-29