Board Meeting 2025-11-25
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This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 25 November 2025 at 17:00 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
- Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF Code Sprint in 2026
- AGM feedback
- OSGeo Budget 2026
- FOSS4G Asia 2026, Nashik, India Budget Request
- Election results/ what it means to be a charter member
- Review pending action items [1]
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: Rajat, Angelos
- Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Joana, Michael, Rajat
- Guests:
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2025-10-28
- Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/kcw90QEM/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2025-10-28
Joint OSGeo-OGC-ASF Code Sprint in 2026
- There are 3 OGC code sprints for 2026
- The first one is end Jan in Colorado
- Venue is identified in Fort Collins, Colorado; Travel support is available within the US and also, international
- Second one is planned with Geovation in London; Funding not confirmed; venue and catering cost is confirmed
- Third one is planned in Barcelona, Spain, end of November; Venue is confirmed
- Note: FOSS4G Hiroshima is in August 2026
- ACTION: Joanna to send an email to the sprint mailing list
FOSS4G Asia 2026, Nashik, India Budget Request
- No seed money request.
- Request for: Travel grant - $3000, Marketing and branding - $1000, Code Sprint - $500
- ACTION: Rajat to send email to Krishna with the guideline document (https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/osgeo_financial_guidance.pdf)
- We currently have 2000$ in the travel grant for this year, 500$ for the code sprint.
- Marketing budget should be requested from the Marketing committee.
AGM feedback
- Proposal to do the AGM separately from the conference. The last session is not a good time, participation is low and everyone is tired from the conference.
- Feedback that OSGeo ID is too difficult to get. Getting people involved has to be very easy.
- ACTION: Discuss options with SAC
- Add more description to the web site about committees.
- The sponsorship plan had positive reactions, implementation details to be discussed.
OSGeo Budget 2026
- ACTION: Angelos to prepare the wiki page.
- ACTION: Angelos to send email for budget requests.
Election results/ what it means to be a charter member
- Move this to next meeting
Review pending action items
- Revisit in later meetings for updates
- ACTION: Angelos to bring items in the agenda of next meeting
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, Jitsi meeting