Board Meeting 2021-06-28

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 28 June 2021 at 15:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Till
• Scribing: Till
• Attending: Angelos, Helena, Codrina, Vicky, Michele, Michael, Till, Tom (8 of 9), Astrid (later)
• Guests: Maria (FOSS4G 2021), Ariel Antheni (FOSS4G 2021), Rajat (GSoC)

1. roll call
2. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2021-05-31 -> passed
3. Accept the Mesh Data Abstraction Layer (MDAL) Project as an OSGeo Community Project
   • https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal
   • https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2021-June/004354.html
   • https://www.loomio.org/d/vO0RQzcn/accept-the-mesh-data-abstraction-layer-mdal-project-as-an-osgeo-community-project-
4. Update on FOSS4G 2021
   • Maria and Ariel (FOSS4G 2021) report:
     • FOSS4G Shop - If board agrees Maria will open a new FOSS4G shop and money goes directly to OSGeo. Nobody knows where money for old shop goes to
     • AGM ** Booked 1h for AGM, early in the morning
     • Requests a video from Angelos about OSGeo (10 Minutes) for the opening
     • Venueless will be used
     • Anita needs access to OSgeo bank acccount (PayPal), Micheal to do
     • Maria informas about status of programme, etc.
     • Board will receive codes for registration soon
     • Maria gives summary of the budget
     • Maria requests if board agrees on offering reduced tickets, that may reduce the outcome
       • board agrees
5. AGM planning - Annual_General_Meeting_2021
   • request for small videos and merge them together (projects, local chapters)
     • ACTION: Astrid to make draft for the email
     • ACTION: Astrid asks Volker Mische
   • OSGeo has a time slot
     • needs to be figured out in next meeting (July)
   • Vicky offers to cut the videos together
6. OSGeo - HOT MOU review
   • Angelos added it to agenda, email form Miriam and review the document
   • Helena to xopy the document to the WIKI
   • approvement next tim
7. Mike and Angelos joined the GDAL numb meeting
   • • document in the enxtcloud to be reviewed by board members
8. Update on the GSoC Org Stipend From the OSGeo GSoC Admin Team
   • Rajat send an email to participating organisations
   • 12 students will participate this year
   • Rajat asks what to do with the money google pays (400 US $)
   • GSoc will be able to present wotk on FOSs4G 2021, thanks FOSS4G 2021 team
   • Maria asks emails of participants in order to be able to add them as speakers
   • Board approves that projects can claim for them oney and do what they want with it (to be better formaulated by Helena) and put on Loomio
     • motion passed

IRC Log

• no log, Will be a meeting on jitsi

Next meeting

• Meeting 2021-07-26