Board Meeting 2023-02-27

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 27 February 2023 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on Loomio and actions on the 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_2023-01-30
4. Executive positions
5. OSGeo Standards Committee update [1]
6. OSGeo security initiative
7. OSGeo sponsorship prospectus
8. JRC meeting feedback
9. org.opengis name usage by GeoTools
10. GeoStyler code sprint [2]
11. GISTAM 2023
12. Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request
13. Local Chapter Brazil
14. GISRUK 2023 request for support [3]
15. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Mike
• Scribing: Angelos
• Attending: Mike, Rajat, Ariel, Tom, Angelos, Marco, Vicky
• Guests:

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2023-01-30
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/yXiSuoMT/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-01-30

Executive positions

• Postponed to next meeting

OSGeo Standards Committee update

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-February/013231.html
• New committee, renamed from OGC committee to Standards committee.
• Terms of Reference now approved from the committee
  • https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Standards_Committee#Terms_of_Reference
• Expecting the committee to get many members due to free membership
• Motion to approve the Standards committee passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/PmKfEyVb/motion-to-approve-new-osgeo-standards-committee
• ACTION: Angelos to move the motion to Loomio (DONE)

OSGeo security initiative

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-January/013209.html
• similar model to code-sprints:
  • Require a CVE to participate.
  • Priority emergency funding.
  • Secondary preventative measures
• Discussion on how this would work?
• Do we need a group responsible to run this initiative?
• Do we need a committee? A working group? Or does the Board address this on a case by case basis?
• How much budget to assign to this initiative.
• Move this to next meeting for further discussion

OSGeo sponsorship prospectus

• Postponed to next meeting

JRC meeting feedback

• FOSS4G 2023
  • European Track
  • Commission partnership: https://2023.foss4g.org/sponsors/partner_european_commission
  • status of OSGeo Europe
• JRC open source solutions: Re3gistry and ETF
  • OSGeoLive
  • other opportunities
• open source in EO
  • JRC work on EuroGEO and links with the OSS4gEO project
• Other events
  • OGC Member meeting, Frascati, 20-24 February
• Support to the Interoperable Europe Act
  • ACTION (Angelos): provide resources and interviews with OSGeo board/community members
• To be further discussed at the next board meeting.

org.opengis name usage by GeoTools

Postponed to next meeting

GeoStyler code sprint

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-February/013229.html
• Postponed to next meeting

GISTAM 2023

• Postponed to next meeting

Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Secretariat at UN-Habitat request

• Postponed to next meeting

Local Chapter Brazil

• Discussed about the options for starting/updating a local chapter.

GISRUK 2023 request for support

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-February/013230.html
• Postponed to next meeting

New Meeting Schedule

• Proposal: Last Tuesday every month, 1800 UTC

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2023-03-28