Board Meeting 2020-06-29
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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 29 June 2020 at 16:00 UTC through IRC, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes
- ISO TC211 liaison update
- OGC memberships
- Feedback from FOSS4GUK 2020
- Feedback from FOSS4G Calgary 2020 LOC [1]
- Update on GitHub sponsors and Open Collective (e-mail from Alyssa Wright)
- Request for partnership from ajesh.org
- Offer from Microsoft for Licenses and Resources
- AGM
- Call for sponsorship
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: Astrid
- Attending: Mike, Vicky, Angelos, Codrina, Victoria, Helena, Astrid, Tom
- Guests: Regine Obe
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2020-05-25
- Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XGJaTRAM/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-05-25
ISO TC211 liaison update
- [https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/68
- form got filled out form and Victoria sent to the ISO delegate
- Two ISO/TC211 members were assigned as our contactes. They are Serena Coetzee and Reese Plews.
OGC memberships
- OGC memberships
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/82
- members of the OGC committee are not active anymore.
- ACTION: Tom contact the existing committee, confirm if they are interested in continuing. Mail to the Standard mailing-list to look for volunteers. Ask Athina whether she is interested.
Feedback from FOSS4GUK 2020
- it was a great event
Feedback from FOSS4G Calgary 2020 LOC
- [2]
- ACTION: Angelos to setup a doodle poll for f2f meeting and reach out to CC
Update on GitHub sponsors and Open Collective (e-mail from Alyssa Wright)
- ACTION: Angelos to reply to Alyssa about current status (Done)
Request for partnership from ajesh.org
- We should wait for a reply about moving the request on the public mailing list before taking any action.
Offer from Microsoft for Licenses and Resources
- Microsoft reached out to us, asking if we want support through licenses (Office 365 etc)
- Angelos answered already. No need for licenses but open source contributions or sponsorship
- Regine Obe mentioned that a couple of windows licenses for buildbots might be nice or an Azure instance for building
- ACTION Angelos will create a list where Windows licenses are needed and reaches out to Microsoft
Call for sponsorship
- Mail was send out by Tom Kralidis and Jody Garnet
- Also will go to announce list
- ACTION Astrid will send the mail to osgeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors
AGM
- We should run a virtual AGM at end of August / start of September
- topic for f2f
- inform community in advance
- ACTION: Astrid create AGM wiki page and slides pdf https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2020 (Done)
Actions
- Move action items to todo action list (Done)
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/