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* Scribing: Till, Mike | * Scribing: Till, Mike | ||
* Attending: Codrina, Michele, Helena, Astrid, Till, Mike, Angelos, Tom, Vicky (later), Jody (guest for the GDAL topic) | * Attending: Codrina, Michele, Helena, Astrid, Till, Mike, Angelos, Tom, Vicky (later), Jody (guest for the GDAL topic) | ||
| + | * 2021 Budget approval | ||
| + | ** in budget call next year make clear, that there is no money to take over (again!) | ||
| + | ** small change in GRASS GIS budget | ||
| + | ** cut budget for SAC for 1 contract (4400 US $) and ask them to come back during the year if this is needed. | ||
| + | ** dedicate 5000$ for travel grant programme and look if FOSS4G Argentina is onside, no support for regional events | ||
| + | ** board agrees with the budget | ||
| + | ** '''Action''': Angelos to update the WIKI and open the motion on loomio | ||
| + | * OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues | ||
| + | ** Astrid proposes to creat a working group on sponsorship as it is hard to get that finalized during the board meetings | ||
| + | ** Astrid proposes to work on the already written tickets during the code sprint | ||
| + | ** Camptocamp requested whether development is valuable as sponsorship, discussion on how to deal with this. | ||
| + | *** Work is hard to value, because many people contribute in several ways to projects | ||
| + | *** important to keep the door open for companies sponsoring OSGeo with money | ||
| + | ** '''Action''': Astrid to create a doodle for the first meeting for the sponsors group | ||
| + | * FOSS research Foundations | ||
| + | ** Astrid forwarded an email from Martin Michlmayr who sent a questioniare and asked us for help in his work on a report on FOSS Foundations | ||
| + | ** '''Action''': Codrina to have a closer look on this questionaire | ||
| + | * response to GDAL support email | ||
| + | ** discussion on this email, Angelos proposed to receive sponnsorshp via the OSGeo github repo | ||
| + | ** probably a problem for a lot of groups in our community, proposal to setup a kind of structure to support these groups in case of such an emergency | ||
| + | ** topic is connected to the sponsorship issue (see above) | ||
| + | * OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up | ||
| + | ** meeting on collaboration OSGeo with HOT | ||
| + | ** goal of HOT is to map 1 billion people | ||
| + | ** skope of co-operation is to support this project on a long term basis (financing is only for 5 years save) | ||
| + | ** preparation of MoU | ||
| + | ** frequent meeting every 3 months to keep in touch | ||
| + | * response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up? | ||
| + | ** Helena asks whether there was a response | ||
| + | ** '''Action''': Helena to follow up here | ||
| + | * GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4? | ||
| + | ** take up in an email (brought up by Jody) | ||
| + | ** some of our projects are based on Elastic Search, so probably need to get rid of it | ||
== Actions == | == Actions == | ||
Revision as of 10:04, 25 January 2021
This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 January 2021 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, 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
- 2021 Budget approval [1] [2]
- OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues
- FOSS research Foundations
- OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up
- response to GDAL support email
- response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up?
- GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4?
Minutes
- Presiding: Till
- Scribing: Till, Mike
- Attending: Codrina, Michele, Helena, Astrid, Till, Mike, Angelos, Tom, Vicky (later), Jody (guest for the GDAL topic)
- 2021 Budget approval
- in budget call next year make clear, that there is no money to take over (again!)
- small change in GRASS GIS budget
- cut budget for SAC for 1 contract (4400 US $) and ask them to come back during the year if this is needed.
- dedicate 5000$ for travel grant programme and look if FOSS4G Argentina is onside, no support for regional events
- board agrees with the budget
- Action: Angelos to update the WIKI and open the motion on loomio
- OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues
- Astrid proposes to creat a working group on sponsorship as it is hard to get that finalized during the board meetings
- Astrid proposes to work on the already written tickets during the code sprint
- Camptocamp requested whether development is valuable as sponsorship, discussion on how to deal with this.
- Work is hard to value, because many people contribute in several ways to projects
- important to keep the door open for companies sponsoring OSGeo with money
- Action: Astrid to create a doodle for the first meeting for the sponsors group
- FOSS research Foundations
- Astrid forwarded an email from Martin Michlmayr who sent a questioniare and asked us for help in his work on a report on FOSS Foundations
- Action: Codrina to have a closer look on this questionaire
- response to GDAL support email
- discussion on this email, Angelos proposed to receive sponnsorshp via the OSGeo github repo
- probably a problem for a lot of groups in our community, proposal to setup a kind of structure to support these groups in case of such an emergency
- topic is connected to the sponsorship issue (see above)
- OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up
- meeting on collaboration OSGeo with HOT
- goal of HOT is to map 1 billion people
- skope of co-operation is to support this project on a long term basis (financing is only for 5 years save)
- preparation of MoU
- frequent meeting every 3 months to keep in touch
- response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up?
- Helena asks whether there was a response
- Action: Helena to follow up here
- GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4?
- take up in an email (brought up by Jody)
- some of our projects are based on Elastic Search, so probably need to get rid of it
Actions
IRC Log
- the meeting was held on Jitsy