Board Meeting 2020-08-31

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 31 August 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
   • Board_Meeting_2020-07-27
   • Board_Meeting_2020-07-29
3. Appoint CRO for 2020 elections.
4. AGM planning
   1. https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
   2. AGM hosting platform
      1. https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2500
   3. AGM additional rooms
   4. AGM slide status
5. GeoNode participation in NFDI4Agriculture consortium [1]
6. UN Open GIS - Geo-AI consultation request
7. Microsoft meeting update
8. FOSS4G 2021 planning update
9. 1st Virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific [2]
10. Proceedings Inquiry [3]

Minutes

• Presiding: Till
• Scribing: all
• Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Till, Tom, Astrid, Victoria, Michael, Tom, Vicky
• Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2020-07-27
  • Loomio motion: https://www.loomio.org/d/U6KsnzvW/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-07-27
  • Motion approved
• Board_Meeting_2020-07-29
  • Loomio motion: https://www.loomio.org/d/1yl6AtrZ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-07-29
  • Motion pending

AGM planning

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
• ACTION: (Angelos, Astrid) mail to the projects and mail to all lists again with new time, platform and reminder to change the slides till 08.09.2020
• Ask for rooms, ask for topics for the after discussion
• Announce financial discussion - how can OSGeo finances can be saved
• Did we send a mail to our partners?
• New meeting on 09.09.2020 16 UTC

AGM hosting platform

• https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2500
• We will switch to zoom
• Rooms?
  • in the mail we can mention that LC or projects can have a room before the meeting
  • after the meeting we the room for more OSGeo discussion and a Geobeer room
• ACTION: (Till): sum up possibilities to zoom accounts and send it via email to board. (Michael) create account on zoom. Till to close SAC ticket
• Need to record session and upload on youtube later

AGM additional rooms

• X (depends on available rooms) rooms for projects 1h before the meeting takes places
• one room after meeting for OSGeo topics and one “virtual geobeer” room

AGM slide status

• FOSS4G
  • add slides about FOSS4G future Calgary/Argentina and RFC2022
  • 2022 Italien team would like to run FOSS4G, they are working on their bid
• ACTION: Codrina to share a document for the conference committee.

GeoNode participation in NFDI4Agriculture consortium

• GeoNode wants to participate in this consortium, a legal entity is needed
• Codrina sends document that explains the obligations for OSGeo.
• ACTION: Till and Astrid to read and sum up for the board

UN Open GIS - Geo-AI consultation request

• 11. September UN Open GIS Artificial Intelligence for Geospatial - Consultation VTC
• Angelos could join the meeting as OSGeo president
• We should ask the Community about the activities in Geo-AI
• ACTION: Mail and room before/at AGM

Microsoft meeting update

• ACTION: Mike will create account for MS and provide to potential users (SAC)

Appoint CRO for 2020 elections

• Make a LOOMIO ticket and approve Jorge and Anne as CRO’s
• https://www.loomio.org/d/DxPmsgVe/appoint-chief-returning-officer-for-2020-member-elections-and-board-elections
• Vicky helps CRO’s with statistics in order to see, who of the charter-members is inactive
• After the approvement CRO will provide a schedule to discuss in the wiki
• No help is needed from SAC

FOSS4G 2021 planning update

• ACTION: Till to ask BLOC to join next board meeting

1st Virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-August/012743.html
• ACTION: Astrid Contact local chapters/members in Asia to participate. / mail to discuss
• https://uia.org/roundtable/2020/asiapacificfor

Proceedings Inquiry

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-August/012755.html
• https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
• https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/
• ACTION: Astrid will contact person from TIB and provide contact persons form conferences, refer to link of ISPRS https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/

Actions

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/

IRC Log

• http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-08-31.log