Board Meeting 2023-07-01
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This board meeting is scheduled Saturday 01 July 2023 at 07:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on Loomio and actions on the OSGeo todo issue tracker.
This meeting is a F2F meeting during the FOSS4G 2023.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- Executive positions 2023
- Appoint new CRO and plan elections
- FOSS4G 2024 Belén and forward
- OSGeo's internationalization steps
- FOSS4G-Asia 2023 Travel Grant Funding Request
- Attendance at 13th UNGGIM Meeting
- Initialize discussions about Marketing Strategy
- Domains
- ZOO-Project project graduation
- Sponsors relationship maintenance
- AGM @ Foss4g
- OSGeo Community Sprint updates
- Regional events
- Project usage statistics
- ESA and EC sponsorship
- GISTAM 2024 Proposal for partnership
- Codemeo partnership proposal
- Invitation to UIA Business Meeting
- Review TODO list and give priorities
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: Mike
- Attending: Mike, Tom, Codrina, Rajat, Angelos, Vicky, Ariel, Marco
- Guests: Ivan Sanchez, Tatiana Pará, Walter Shilman, Luca Deluchi
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2023-05-30
- Waiting for loomio motion to complete, waiting for votes on Loomio: Codrina, Adam
Executive positions 2023
- Existing Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/d/d6k7Z5Xj/executive-positions-2023
- We keep the same executive positions until November (motion by Mike, passed)
- ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio (Done).
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/5e7JOYxz/motion-to-keep-existing-executive-positions-until-next-elections
- We aim to have the executive positions discussion as soon as the new board is announced.
Appoint new CRO and plan elections
- MOT1: Angelos motion to appoint Ivan as CRO for 2023 charter member and board elections
Passed locally, will be voted on Loomio
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/AKfx1t25/motion-to-appoint-iv-n-s-nchez-as-cro-for-2023-elections
- Discussion on how to lower barrier for candidates for elections (board and charter member):
- Add a page on OSGeo website to outline what a candidate (board/charter member) needs to do. Remove wiki from the process.
- ACTION: Ivan and Vicky to ask Jorge if he wants to help CRO (Done)
- ACTION: Vicky to send announcements about elections right after conference
- Dates: Charter Members: Sept: 15, Board Elections: Nov 1
FOSS4G 2024 Belém and forward
- Considering translations and presentations done twice in multiple languages
- Draft Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13pFu_7dltGSVwH5IqJ1csq6mCoiENGhNZuq7R_Ymgb4/edit?usp=sharing
- Discussing technical aspects, costs and formation of local chapter.
- Someone from Belém LOC should attend Board meetings monthly.
- Japan's team joins the meeting for 2025 (Hiroshima).
OSGeo's internationalization steps
- Add a project graduation checklist item for incubation projects to have the ability for i18n <- SHOULD
- ACTION: Tom to bring the topic to the incubation mailing list (Done): https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2023-July/004676.html
FOSS4G-Asia 2023 Travel Grant Funding Request
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-June/013299.html
- MOT2: Accept the request by Mike. Passed.
- ACTION Angelos to move to Loomio (Done)
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/ibJ4HVc1/motion-to-approve-foss4g-asia-2023-travel-grant-funding-request-for-usd-5-000
Attendance at 13th UNGGIM Meeting
- Ask the UN committee about the potential to get a presentation.
- We have past contact details which can be used for further interactions, if required: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/un/2020-November/000165.html
- ACTION: Ariel to contact the UN committee to see if we can make a presentation at the event.
Initialize discussions about Marketing Strategy
- ACTION: Codrina to start a draft
Domains
- Domains can be paid from community project budget
ZOO-Project project graduation
- Completed. Informational only as a result.
- https://www.loomio.com/p/e05cGCYP/graduate-zoo-project-as-an-osgeo-project
Sponsors relationship maintenance
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-April/013255.html
- Discussion to create OSGeo sponsorship packs that will include conference sponsorship
- Questions:
- Do the sponsors get any registration discounts?
- Can the sponsors (recurring) directly give money to OSGeo for all the events and conferences?
- Adding to next agenda to follow up
AGM @ Foss4g
- Change the AGM to an AMA.
- We should ask this session to happen before the closing ceremony at prime time (after opening session or before a keynote)
- Ask for individual videos instead of editing one.
- Consider a generic video on “What is OSGeo?”
- ACTION: Tom to initiate issue (Done)
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/157
OSGeo Community Sprint updates
- November 6-9, 2023
- We are expecting huge participation. QGIS and Pangeo communities are joining
- Registration for the conference is free and community sprints can freely attend the conference
- It should be a four hour session instead of three so that they have an idea what the participants are expecting.
- Should we create a discord channel for this sprint for the virtual participants?
Regional events
- No change to financial guidelines
Project usage statistics
- Discussed the process that QGIS is gathering usage data
- https://blog.qgis.org/2022/06/16/qgis-userbase-analytics/
ESA and EC sponsorship
- Updates from Codrina about the EU legal entity
GISTAM 2024 Proposal for partnership
- [1]
- ACTION: Angelos to reply that they can promote in Events page
Codemeo partnership proposal
- https://sites.google.com/codemotion.it/community-en/partner/proposal?authuser=0
- ACTION: Angelos to reply that we are not interested (Done)
Invitation to UIA Business Meeting
- Thoughts: Send the OSGeo generic video
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, Jitsi meeting