Difference between revisions of "Board Meeting 2020-01-27"

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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 27 January 2020 at 16:00 UTC through IRC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2020-01-13
Appoint Jody Garnett and Enock Seth Nyamador as co-chairs of Marketing Committee.
Negotiation with Buenos Aires Team
f2f Meeting - https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hacBIYOAEA/
FOSS4G Registering Trademark (Email from Steven F.)
Email from Bart 5.12. regarding board actions towards Halifax-actions
Discuss request from osgeo4w for yearly budget
Project report from Marble
QGIS Summer camp, Summer school, Contributer meeting and Conference - application for sponsorship
Request W3C Web mapping workshop, Montreal June 15-17 [1]
Request for collaboration for an NSF research project
FOSS4G Europe 2020 request for seed funding [2]
GSoC 2020, Importance of that program.
Add more agenda items here...

Minutes

Presiding: Till
Scribing: Angelos
Attending: Till, Astrid, Angelos, Tom, Codrina, Helena, Victoria, Michael, Vicky

Review and approve past minutes Board_Meeting_2020-01-13

Motion was already made on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/cNZLd04X/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-01-13
Motion passed on Loomio.

Appoint Jody Garnett and Enock Seth Nyamador as co-chairs of Marketing Committee

Jody Garnett present.
Jody is going to try to restart the marketing / outreach committee

MOT 1: Appoint Jody Garnett and Enock Seth Nyamador as co-chairs of Marketing Committee

Astrid: +1 (Initial motion)
Angelos: +1 (seconded)
Helena: +1
Tom: +1
Till: +1
Victoria: +1
Codrina: +1
Michael: +1
Vicky: +1

Motion passed during the meeting
Motion on Loomio: ?
ACTION: Astrid to update the website officer list

Negotiation with Buenos Aires Team

On Conference Committee mailing list there was a proposal of Eli: First 30k 50/50, then 90/10
ACTION: Till to talk to BALOC and report back

f2f Meeting

https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hacBIYOAEA/
Some concers that Athens will be very busy. Note that we are planning a co-located OGC API Hackathon at that time.
Maybe we could meet the day after or before the community sprint
Thoughts about having the f2f in both places so that at least all can participate personally on one
Give more time for all to vote on the poll and also discuss on mailing list before making a decision.

FOSS4G Registering Trademark (Email from Steven F.)

Example from ASF: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
Discussion about FOSS4G and ribon trademarks.
This discussion was raised before (with the LocationTech thing), Venka, as the initiator, did not agree.
Perhaps make a wider discussion about this. Maybe board and conf-list.
Jody: For TM our website (and the old website) claims the trademark https://www.osgeo.org/legal-information/ Text is copied from old website, I assumed folks who wrote it knew what was what.
Probably should first start with a CC vote to do this before we go wider.
ACTION: Till to answer Steven
Side discussion about OSGeo Store online. Looks like a topic for the marketing committee.

Email from Bart 5.12. regarding board actions towards Halifax-actions

Actions such as unresponsiveness on request from the community and also the board and the other actions taken were against the CoC.
Bart's email was more about the actions and not how to handle promoting Calgary as the official conference.
It's a good idea to ask CoC-committee for their thoughts on this.
Also note that Jeff was unresponsive while being on the board for more than 6 months
We should at least have a common public position.
Vicky as co-chair of CoC committee tried to contact Jeff, and he was unresponsive
Maybe someone could try to call him on the phone. Looks like other channels do not work.
If it was weeks, there can maybe be some lenience and understanding, but this is working against OSGeo and FOSS4G for months.
This is a wider issue regarding the fact that OSGeo doesn't have the tools to protect itself from these actions.
Prevention: Own the trademark
It is not a priority to contact Jeff right now or revive this halifax topic.
Bylaws do mention that the board can remove members if they missbehave.

Discuss request from osgeo4w for yearly budget

Paolo Cavalini present.

Actions

Astrid to update the website officer list
Till to talk to BALOC and report back
Till to answer Steven about the FOSS4G Trademark.

IRC Log

http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-01-27.log

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 * Presiding: Till
-* Scribing:
+* Scribing: Angelos
-* Attending:
+* Attending: Till, Astrid, Angelos, Tom, Codrina, Helena, Victoria, Michael, Vicky
+=== Review and approve past minutes [[Board_Meeting_2020-01-13]]===
+* Motion was already made on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/cNZLd04X/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-01-13
+* Motion passed on Loomio.
+=== Appoint Jody Garnett and Enock Seth Nyamador as co-chairs of Marketing Committee ===
+* Jody Garnett present.
+* Jody is going to try to restart the marketing / outreach committee
+MOT 1: Appoint Jody Garnett and Enock Seth Nyamador as co-chairs of Marketing Committee
+* Astrid: +1 (Initial motion)
+* Angelos: +1 (seconded)
+* Helena: +1
+* Tom: +1
+* Till: +1
+* Victoria: +1
+* Codrina: +1
+* Michael: +1
+* Vicky: +1
+* Motion passed during the meeting
+* Motion on Loomio: ?
+* ACTION: Astrid to update the website officer list
+=== Negotiation with Buenos Aires Team ===
+* On Conference Committee mailing list there was a proposal of Eli: First 30k 50/50, then 90/10
+* ACTION: Till to talk to BALOC and report back
+=== f2f Meeting ===
+* https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/hacBIYOAEA/
+* Some concers that Athens will be very busy. Note that we are planning a co-located OGC API Hackathon at that time.
+* Maybe we could meet the day after or before the community sprint
+* Thoughts about having the f2f in both places so that at least all can participate personally on one
+* Give more time for all to vote on the poll and also discuss on mailing list before making a decision.
+=== FOSS4G Registering Trademark (Email from Steven F.) ===
+* Example from ASF: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
+* Discussion about FOSS4G and ribon trademarks.
+* This discussion was raised before (with the LocationTech thing), Venka, as the initiator, did not agree.
+* Perhaps make a wider discussion about this. Maybe board and conf-list.
+* Jody: For TM our website (and the old website) claims the trademark https://www.osgeo.org/legal-information/ Text is copied from old website, I assumed folks who wrote it knew what was what.
+* Probably should first start with a CC vote to do this before we go wider.
+* ACTION: Till to answer Steven
+* Side discussion about OSGeo Store online. Looks like a topic for the marketing committee.
+=== Email from Bart 5.12. regarding board actions towards Halifax-actions ===
+* Actions such as unresponsiveness on request from the community and also the board and the other actions taken were against the CoC.
+* Bart's email was more about the actions and not how to handle promoting Calgary as the official conference.
+* It's a good idea to ask CoC-committee for their thoughts on this.
+* Also note that Jeff was unresponsive while being on the board for more than 6 months
+* We should at least have a common public position.
+* Vicky as co-chair of CoC committee tried to contact Jeff, and he was unresponsive
+* Maybe someone could try to call him on the phone. Looks like other channels do not work.
+* If it was weeks, there can maybe be some lenience and understanding, but this is working against OSGeo and FOSS4G for months.
+* This is a wider issue regarding the fact that OSGeo doesn't have the tools to protect itself from these actions.
+* Prevention: Own the trademark
+* It is not a priority to contact Jeff right now or revive this halifax topic.
+* Bylaws do mention that the board can remove members if they missbehave.
+=== Discuss request from osgeo4w for yearly budget ===
+* Paolo Cavalini present.
 == Actions ==
+* Astrid to update the website officer list
+* Till to talk to BALOC and report back
+* Till to answer Steven about the FOSS4G Trademark.
 == IRC Log ==