Board Meeting 2023-07-25
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This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 25 July 2023 at 18:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on Loomio and actions on the OSGeo todo issue tracker.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
- Bolsena code sprint request for €2,000 EUR
- OpenGIS harmonization initiative
- GeoMajas project status
- Sponsors relationship maintenance
- ESA MOI
- Code sprint announcement
- EU CRA directive [1]
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: all
- Attending: Michael, Vicky, Angelos, Marco, Ariel, Rajat, Codrina
- Guests: John Gitau (UN habitat), Jody, Lior Kaplan
Review and approve past minutes
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
- Short introduction to GLTN and STDM
- Arnulf helping since 2014
- ACTION: Angelos to contact the UN committee, then provide feedback to John about volunteers (Done).
- http://gltn.net/2016/10/22/meet-the-partner-open-source-geospatial-foundation-osgeo/
- https://gltn.net/gltn-partners-3/#professional
Bolsena code sprint request
- Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2023#Sponsoring
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-July/013312.html
- ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio (Done).
- Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/FQ7Ty1u3/motion-to-approve-bolsena-code-sprint-request-for-2000-euros
OpenGIS harmonization initiative
- Discussion about the approved budget and the results of FOSS4G code sprint.
- The board will discuss through e-mail about the path forward.
GeoMajas project status
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/158
- GeoMajas is listed as a community project now, not active lately.
Sponsors relationship maintenance
- Lior Kaplan volunteering to help with sponsor contacting and update
- Vicky will share the information with Lior
- Discussion about a sponsors working group
- Follow up on sponsorship packs idea, so that sponsors can know at which events they will be visible.
- MOTION: Lior to become a member of the Finance Committee and have access to the sponsor's information. Motion by Michael, seconded by Angelos, all in favor. Approved during the meeting.
- ACTION Angelos to move to Loomio and get everyone to vote (Done).
- Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/ZkUPCQAi/motion-for-lior-kaplan-to-become-a-member-of-the-finance-committee-and-have-access-to-the-sponsor-s-information-
ESA MOI
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_ESA
- Discussion about the draft document and the feedback given on chat discussion.
- Adam has expressed the opinion that the word "enforce" in Exhibit A could be changed to "use". The reasons are: 1. the MoI(U) doesn't give either organization power to enforce anything. 2. OSGeo shouldn't be about enforcing things, with external organizations - we can lead, mentor, encourage.
- During the meeting the wording was discussed. The word "enforce" is on ESA’s side and not OSGeo. It explains why ESA signs this MoI: “In this context, the current MoI represents a key strategic element to enforce open source practices and maximise outreach and community building for the open source components developed under the ESA EO Science for Society activities.”
- We agreed that this is ok on OSGeo side. It does not imply whatsoever that OSGeo is an enforcer. Some organizations need/use such language on regulations and agreements.
- ACTION: Codrina to send an e-mail to the board mailing list with the draft to make it publicly available (Done) [2]
- ACTION: Angelos to open a motion to approve (Done)
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/QlL45DxV/motion-to-approve-the-memorandum-of-intent-with-the-european-space-agency
Code sprint announce
- Already published on the website [3].
- We need to make a follow up announcement with QGIS and Pangeo participation.
- ACTION: Angelos to follow up on e-mail (Done)
EU CRA directive
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2023-July/010092.html
- We need to raise awareness of this issue.
- ACTION: Angelos to plan a working session to involve projects and committees and prepare material for reaching out. Proposed date Tue 8th August 13:00UTC. (Done)
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, Jitsi meeting