Board Meeting 2020-05-25

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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 May 2020 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

  1. roll call
    • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
  2. Review and approve past minutes
  3. Approve FLOSSK Kosovo as official Local OSGeo Chapter (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Kosovo_Chapter)
  4. Discuss request from J. Neufeld to refund 100% of loss for FOSS4G 2020
  5. GitHub sponsors [1]
  6. Add more agenda items here...

Minutes

  • Presiding: Till
  • Scribing: Angelos
  • Attending: Mike, Vicky, Angelos, Till, Codrina, Victoria, Helena, Astrid, Tom
  • Guests: -

Review and approve past minutes

Approve FLOSSK Kosovo as official Local OSGeo Chapter

  • Motion to approve FLOSSK Kosovo as official Local OSGeo Chapter

Mike: +1 (Initial motion) Astrid: +1 (Seconded) Vicky: +1 Angelos: +1 Till: +1 Codrina: +1 Victoria: +1 Helena: +1 Astrid: +1 Tom: +1

Motion passed.

ACTION: Astrid tweet about the new local chapters @FLOSSK ACTION: Vicky: contact Besfort Guri and send information about the next steps https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapter_Guidelines https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/


Discuss request from J. Neufeld to refund 100% of loss for FOSS4G 2020

  • Discussion about the losses from the Calgary team
  • We need a public request on the official board-mailing list and then vote on refunding the loss by OSGeo
  • The costs for the travels of the board plus the TGP is more or less the same as the lost amount
  • Request CC again for clearer rules for the future: Clear agreement on what OSGeo takes over and what not
  • ACTION: Till contact Conference Committee
  • Ask John to send an email to cover the losses to the board-list, then board can make a motion on Loomio and answer
  • ACTION: Till will contact John and will explain the procedure

GitHub sponsors

  • Discussion about the options and requirements about using GitHub sponsors functionality.
  • GeoTools and pgrouting can be the pilot projects.

Actions

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