Board Meeting 2023-10-31
This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 31 October 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
- Review pending actions (EU CRA directive, FOSS4G Asia invitation)
- Community Sprint 2023 updates
- Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF Code Sprint 2024
- Elections status (update from CRO)
- Start process for OSGeo Budget 2024
- OSGeo Sponsorship Request for Pista ng Mapa [1]
- MOU renewal with AGILE
- OSGeo representation at the EU Open Source Policy Summit, regarding CRA
- Iván Sánchez volunteers to participate (panel? talk?) there.
- Overture Maps and standards
- Purchase GMAIL Business Starter account for foss4g-europe.org domain. Details at 2997
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: Codrina
- Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Michael, Tom, Ariel, Vicky, Rajat
- Guests: Simone Giannecchini, Jody Garnett, Iván Sánchez
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2023-09-26
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/paxZeOfP/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-09-26
Review pending actions
- FOSS4G Asia invitation:
- Rajat can’t go. Jody is attending and can represent OSGeo. We don’t know yet if Marco can attend.
- ACTION: Angelos to reply and nominate Jody to represent OSGeo (Done)
- EU CRA directive
- Ticket: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/159
- notes collected from community meeting
- Background reading: https://www.euractiv.com/section/cybersecurity/news/eu-policymakers-advance-on-open-source-software-support-period-in-new-cybersecurity-law/
- Board did not manage to draft the answer yet, even if already met on the topic
- Oct 20: deadline for collecting feedback and we missed on that
- Nov 8: when the collected answers will be circulated by the EC. A small update from the OSGeo to the community should be sent to discuss mailing list: CRA matters, this affects our ecosystem and it is useful to talk to your local politician.
- ACTION: draft the (short) answer of OSGeo (Jody, Angelos, Simone and Ivan) (Done).
- Draft available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_k4RRDs8ZOODMsUyrMnhGI2SNzi5gCFekzfDfBurUA/edit#heading=h.fkxiqlqdj0eu
- https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/eu-cyber-resilience-act/
OSGeo representation at the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024, regarding CRA
- https://summit.openforumeurope.org/
- Motion to cover the expenses from the board for Ivan travel
- Motion by Angelos, seconded by Michael, all in favor
- Motion passes unanimous
- ACTION: Jody to contact the Summit people to see if Ivan can get a slot to talk
Elections status (update from CRO)
- Ivan: We are a bit late with the process
- We need to set the board election process timeline: mid Nov to start the nomination for board members
Community Sprint 2023 updates
- Venue fully paid by ESA
- EOX is organizing the sprint social event (80 people for 6k)
- 53 from the wiki, about 140 from the BiDS registration
Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF Code Sprint 2024
- Tom: OGC&Apache&OSGeo discussion to organise the 2024 one: February (the week of 26: Monday - Thursday) Location - Évora, Portugal, at the University
- The venue is available for the last week of February;
- ACTION: (Tom) send email to discuss mailing list once we have an update from Gobe Hobona saying what dates we are considering.
Start process for OSGeo Budget 2024
- https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2024
- ACTION: Angelos to send out announcements to projects for them to send their request for the budget
- Jody: to introduce in the message to the projects: How sponsors can support them with in 2024? Example: GeoTools-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities
- The goal is to ask projects for their “project budget” for 2024:
- Ask what opportunities there are for sponsors and OSGeo to support?
- Then in that context ask what financial support they would like from OSGeo to meet those goals/objectives/maintenance
- Ensure we have a template for projects to copy and paste: (the only communication that matters)
OSGeo Sponsorship Request for Pista ng Mapa
- https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-September/013369.html
- ACTION: Angelos to do a Loomio motion for OSGeo to support at Major Sponsor level (4000 USD)(Done)
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/WF568OVe/motion-for-osgeo-to-support-pista-ng-mapa-at-major-sponsor-level-4000-usd-
MOU renewal with AGILE
- ACTION: Angelos to send them the MOU template (Done)
- We are willing to move forward
Overture Maps and standards
- Overture Maps is a foundation coming up with geospatial data and products without involving much of the geospatial standards
- Geomob podcast: https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-163
- ACTION for all
- Read and come back for discussion in next meeting
- Please consider the feedback from Miriam: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-November/013394.html
Purchase GMAIL Business Starter account for foss4g-europe.org domain
- ACTION: Vicky to ask Regina
- ACTION: Angelos to create a Loomio motion to approve.
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, Jitsi meeting