Board Meeting 2020-05-25

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 May 2020 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.

Agenda

Current items

1. roll call
   • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
2. Review and approve past minutes
   • Board_Meeting_2020-04-27
3. Approve FLOSSK Kosovo as official Local OSGeo Chapter (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Kosovo_Chapter)
4. Discuss request from J. Neufeld to refund 100% of loss for FOSS4G 2020
5. GitHub sponsors [1]
6. Add more agenda items here...

Minutes

• Presiding: Till/Astrid
• Scribing: Angelos
• Attending: Mike, Vicky, Angelos, Till, Codrina, Victoria, Helena, Astrid, Tom
• Guests: Besfort Guri (FLOSSK)

Review and approve past minutes

• Moved to Loomio
• https://www.loomio.org/d/a6vjkMhW/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-04-27

Approve FLOSSK Kosovo as official Local OSGeo Chapter

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Kosovo_Chapter

MOT1: Motion to approve FLOSSK Kosovo as official Local OSGeo Chapter

• Mike: +1 (Initial motion)
• Astrid: +1 (Seconded)
• Vicky: +1
• Angelos: +1
• Till: +1
• Codrina: +1
• Victoria: +1
• Helena: +1
• Astrid: +1
• Tom: +1

• Motion passed during the meeting.

• ACTION: Astrid tweet about the new local chapters @FLOSSK CHECK
• ACTION 83: Vicky: contact Besfort Guri and send information about the next steps
  • https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Local_Chapter_Guidelines
  • https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/

Discuss request from J. Neufeld to refund 100% of loss for FOSS4G 2020

• Discussion about the losses from the Calgary team
• We need a public request on the official board-mailing list and then vote on refunding the loss by OSGeo
• The costs for the travels of the board plus the TGP is more or less the same as the lost amount
• Request CC again for clearer rules for the future: Clear agreement on what OSGeo takes over and what not
• ACTION: Till contact Conference Committee CHECK
• Ask John to send an email to cover the losses to the board-list, then board can make a motion on Loomio and answer
• ACTION: Till will contact John and will explain the procedure CHECK

MOT2: Reimburse Calgary LOC for 95% of the actual loss incurred i.e. $45,610 USD

• Motion done on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/4UemyVsA/foss4g-calgary-2020-request-for-reimbursement
• Motion passed

GitHub sponsors

• Discussion about the options and requirements about using GitHub sponsors functionality.
• GeoTools and pgrouting can be the pilot projects.

Actions

• Move action items to todo action list
• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/

IRC Log

• http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-05-25.log