Board Meeting 2023-08-29

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 29 August 2023 at 13:00 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_2023-07-25
4. Local Chapter Brazil - formalization and recognition by the OSGeo board [1]
5. FOSS4G 2024 Belem International
6. Community Sprint 2023 venue cost
7. EU CRA directive [2]
8. Funding request from Geocamp 2023 [3]
9. opengis harmonization update [4]
10. Accept mappyfile to OSGeo Community Project status [5]
11. Invitation of the OSGeo president to FOSS4G-ASIA 2023 Seoul
12. gvSIG support letter for sciences award
13. UNGGIM
14. OSGeo - AGU MoU: Opportunity for renewal
15. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Codrina
• Scribing: Vicky, Mike, Angelos
• Attending: Codrina, Angelos, Michael, Marco, Ariel, Rajat, Vicky
• Guests: George Porto, Jorge Sanz, Andrea Trovant

Review and approve past minutes

• Motion passed on loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/dnigIcFY/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-07-25

Local Chapter Brazil - formalization and recognition by the OSGeo board

• Need to start the legal entity and then apply to become an official chapter.
• Can be done in parallel

FOSS4G 2024 Belem International

• Tatiana could not attend
• Reviewing the submitted budget
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1br2HhO2BYMdfX5XgvXb_sm1KM27Br21Q/view
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1xuox5Xt_OXK4MA2ApwZRQO_onspDfxQlpSQ0ndPgDpk/edit?usp=sharing

Community Sprint 2023 venue cost

• Unexpected payment for the room
• We will wait feedback from ESA (early September)

EU CRA directive

• Expected from the board a document/blog/announcement about the issue
• Active discussion on mailing list, several documents are being listed.
• Follow up information by Marco
• https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/cyber-resilience-act-impact-assessment
• ACTION: Marco: start drafting with references (ask Luis for notes from community meeting)

Funding request from Geocamp 2023

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-August/013352.html
• MOTION: to be opened on Loomio, for one week.
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/mudT5BqG/motion-to-approve-funding-request-from-geocamp-2023-for-3000-euros

opengis harmonization update

• An invoice has been issued

Accept mappyfile to OSGeo Community Project status

• MOTION: to be opened on Loomio.
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/LZvGn7oT/motion-to-accept-mappyfile-to-osgeo-community-program

Invitation of the OSGeo president to FOSS4G-ASIA 2023 Seoul

• Rajat and Marco are potentially available to travel.

gvSIG support letter for sciences award

• MOTION to approve letter of support
  • +1 Marco
  • +1 Rajat
  • +1 Vicky
  • +1 Codrina
  • +1 Angelos
  • +1 Mike
  • +1 Ariel

Motion passed during the meeting.

UNGGIM

• Moved to next meeting

OSGeo - AGU MoU: Opportunity for renewal

• Moved to next meeting

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2023-09-26