Board Meeting 2022-12-12
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This board meeting is scheduled Monday 12 December 2022 at 16:00 UTC through Jitsi, 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
- Project trademarks update
- MoU Template [1]
- Renew MoU with UCGIS MOU_UCGIS
- MoU with GISwater
- Approve OSGeo Oceania TGP request
- OSGeo European Local Chapter
- Review Action items [2]
- Communicate Sponsorship opportunities for 2022-2023 [3]
- Add your topic here
Minutes
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: Rajat
- Attending: Vicky, Michael, Codrina, Michele, Rajat, Angelos, Marco, Adam, Tom
- Guests:
Review and approve past minutes
- Board_Meeting_2022-11-28
- Motion passed on Loomio https://www.loomio.com/p/is5Z6rEG/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-11-28
Project trademarks update
- Financial support is required for application process
- Support can be provided in forms of tutorials or getting started process
- Q: Is OSGeo Trademarked? (NextCloud documents or Quickbooks)
- Q: Is FOSS4G trademarked?
- ACTION: Codrina to create a wiki page defining the process for getting started for the process
- ACTION: Mike will explore the USPTO application process for Trademark (Done)
MoU Template
- MoU Template
- Board can discuss and approve so this template can be presented to organizations wishing to partner up with us.
- ACTION: Resolve the comments and create a Loomio motion (Done)
- Motion passed on Loomio https://www.loomio.com/d/4h3JekD9/motion-to-accept-mou-template/1
Renew MoU with UCGIS
- An existing MoU gives an opportunity to negotiate
- Board reviews and provide modifications/add to the existing MoU
- TODO: Add Level of commitment from the participating organizations
- ACTION: Adam to translate the existing OSGeo-UCGIS MoU to the new proposed MoU template
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/135
MoU with GISwater
- Since GISwater has a project joining as OSGeo Community Project
- ACTION: Codrina to draft a response to GISWater
Approve OSGeo Oceania TGP request
- Conference Committee has approved the motion (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-December/005885.html)
- Approved by board during the meeting
OSGeo European Local Chapter
- Local Chapter would help organizations working in Europe for collaborating with OSGeo
- ISSUE: Missing liaison for the existing OSGeo European local chapter
- ACTION: Codrina to communicate with the existing local chapter to know the status
- Based on the response to action, next step can be finalized; (Can a new OSGeo Europe local chapter be started?)
Review Action items
- Moved to next meeting
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
Communicate Sponsorship opportunities for 2022-2023
- Moved to next meeting with an invitation to Marketing committee
- https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/106
Actions
IRC Log
- no log, a jitsi meeting