Board Meeting 2020-12-07

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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 07 December 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
  3. Review of 2020 Board period and offboarding
  4. OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint News item
  5. Apache-OGC-OSGeo Code Sprint planning (Feb 2021)
  6. Next Community Sprint invitation
  7. Communication Board-Mailing-list
  8. Communication charter members mailing list https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/charter-members
  9. Review action items
  10. please add items

Minutes

  • Presiding: Angelos
  • Scribing: Astrid
  • Attending: Helena, Michael, Victoria, Angelos, Astrid, Codrina, Tom, Till (late)

Review and approve past minutes

https://www.loomio.org/d/d19srE7Q/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-11-30

Review of 2020 Board period and offboarding

  • challenging time due to pandemic, looks like there is less time due to the pandemic
  • limitations of virtual
  • work is distributed, everybody is doing things
  • good discussions and successful motions
  • it was fun to be in the board
  • FOSS4G big descission on refunding the event
  • Successful virtual AGM (let's do it always virtual)
  • Communication with OGC / ISO


ideas for board activities

  • be better prepared for the meetings
  • make offboarding meeting part of the board activity. It is good to review and take tome to say goodby to leaving board members


general ideas for the future

  • more mails, mails to charter members, local chapters
  • get people from all of the world involved
  • Limesurvey - What is the community thinking about OSGeo, ideas (short survey)
  • charter member election
    • promote nomination earlier and remind, promote nomination on the lists charter/projects
    • project psc - invite them to get charter members if there are not charter members already
  • board election
    • in advance reach out to people personally and on the list to find more candidates
  • work on the vision / position of OSGeo / better communication
  • reach out to the middle east - this area is not visible at the moment


OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint News item

Apache-OGC-OSGeo Code Sprint planning (Feb 2021)

  • Angelos / Tom are involved
  • Meeting about organization is coming
  • no exact time yet
  • registration & co via OGC
  • Wiki page at OSGeo wiki as usaual for OSGeo information
  • Mail to projects TODO Tom (review board)

Communication Board-Mailing-list

  • please use the board mailing list for non private communication. We are very active and this may not be visible from the outside

Communication charter members mailing list

Review action items

  • postponed to next meeting with the new board

Actions


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