Board Meeting 2019-03-25

Face to Video Meeting

Attending

• Video: https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard
• When: Monday March 25 2019 14:00 UTC

Agenda

1. Director Updates
   • round table update from our directors
2. Director and Officer responsibilities
   • review of bylaws suggested
   • review of officers responsibilities and current approach
   • idea: review appointments and ensure we are covered for 2020
3. OSGeo Events and FOSS4G Conferences
4. OSGeo Local Chapter initiative
5. OSGeo Partner Program review and status update
6. OSGeo Sponsors program
7. OSGeo Members
   • idea: review and discussion of member meetings
8. OSGeo Project status
9. OSGeo Community program
10. Other Activities
    • Budget
    • Elections

Goal

We invite board members to revisit their initial goals as an elected representative to provide context for the days discussion.

The board is responsible for several activities and initiatives and this is good opportunity to review and set priorities for 2019.

We should leave the meeting with:

• actions for each initiative to review at our August F2F meeting
• A clear message for our members, events and partners.

Secondary goal is to make up for a gap in the our on boarding (as the budget took priority during this board's initial months).

Meeting Minutes

• Chair: Jody
• Scribe: Victoria

Attending:

• Angelos Tzotzos
• Jody Garnett
• María Arias de Reyna
• Tom Kralidis
• Victoria Rautenbach
• Astrid Emde - joined late
• Michael Smith - at 1500 UTC

Apologies:

• Helena Mitasova

Topic

Director update

• Jody: Encourage participation in 2019 in committees (marketing example). Had to scale down his participation for this year.
• Angelos: Keep an eye on projects and make sure they report to the Board. Relationship with OGC.
• Victoria: Increase participation. Look into testing of software as an option.
• Tom: Follow up on OGC technical meeting interet in python projects. Attend OSGeo sprint. OGC Hackathon.
• Maria: CoC needs more work and volunteers. Improving diversity in OSGeo. Taking part in new industry activity “Women in Geospatial”. Lots of progress in south america (multiple groups).

Director and Officer responsibilities

• Reviewed OSGeo bylaws

Discussion

• Discussion on board members that do not participate, for example more than 6 month
• Roles of Board and Officers

Actions:

• Secretary to update and review the officers listed on the website and check if they are still the ones selected by PSC and they are active.
• Ask projects to link to their CoC or to the OSGeo CoC from web site, for example. To be completed after updating PSC and officers.
• At the next full board meeting discuss the officers, for example Vice-President, and Regional Representatives (or maybe VP), for example for South America and Asia/Australasia

Discussion

• Discussion on board members that do not participate, for example more than 6 month

Motion:

• Loomio link

Actions:

• TODO LINK