Board Meeting 2022-10-17

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 17 October 2022 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. roll call
2. appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
3. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2022-09-26
4. Review Smart Geo Expo MoU
5. FOSS4G 2023
6. Geo-ethics Locus Charter
7. GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal (2nd reminder)
8. OSGeo EU - ESA
9. GeoForAll website updates
10. Website
11. Research Organization Registry entry [1]
12. Elections and CoC
13. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Michele
• Scribing: Rajat
• Attending: Adam, Angelos, Codrina, Michele, Rajat, Vicky, Marco
• Guests: Brian Hamlin, Besfort Guri, Valmir (FLOSSK)

Review and approve past minutes

• Motion to approve Board_Meeting_2022-09-26 open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/GFQhYd0n/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-09-26

Review Smart Geo Expo MoU

Link to the MoU draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1raqBOJv7yB7HWikUx3Pk8h3ypKbXfLxXRtSIY7w1pr4/edit

• Updates: Description about cooperation between the stakeholders.
• Two Liaisons are required to be nominated. Vicky is temporary liaison for OSGeo.
• Signing ceremony is scheduled on November 3rd, 2022.
• ACTIONS:
  • Review more previous MoUs to add a clause for promoting open-source and make it stronger.
  • One week for the board to review the draft and provide comments.
  • Vicky to reach out to the OSGeo Korea local chapter.

FOSS4G 2023

Guest: Besfort Guri, Valmir

• Intent by the FOSS4G 2023 LOC to join the next board meeting (Oct 31, 2022) and present updates.
• ACTION: Invite Co-chairs to the planned meeting.

Geo-ethics Locus Charter

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-August/013080.html
• TODO: Review and approve the charter(https://ethicalgeo.org/locus-charter/) for signing
• ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio.

GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal (2nd reminder)

• https://gistam.scitevents.org/
• Questions: What are their requirements from this partnership? Is it an MoU? Is it just a cross-promotion activity? Would they provide a booth or keynote?
• ACTION: Codrina to send email with the questions

OSGeo EU - ESA

• ACTION: Codrina and Marco to attend a f2f meeting in early November and update board about the discussion

GeoForAll website updates

• ACTION: Vicky to present updates post FOSS4G Asia 2022 (Smart GeoExpo 2022)

Website

• ACTION: Vicky to present updates post FOSS4G Asia 2022 (Smart GeoExpo 2022)

Research Organization Registry entry

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-September/013122.html
• ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio
• ACTION: Angelos to register OSGeo after motion is approved

Elections and CoC

• TODO in Policy - Points to consider
  • Board/CRO can veto or block any charter/board nomination?
  • The list of nominations maybe be cross-checked by the CoC committee
  • Blacklisting procedure? Timeline?
• ACTION: Vicky to schedule a meeting with the CoC Committee

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, a jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2022-10-31