Board Meeting 2023-12-26

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 26 December 2023 at 18:00 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_2023-11-28
4. Elections status
5. OSGeo Budget 2024
6. Joint OGC-ASF-OSGeo Code Sprint
7. Annual sponsorship opportunities, reminder to sponsor osgeo
8. Report back from representing OSGeo at foss4g-asia
9. Join DPGA (Digital Public Goods Aliance)[1]
10. Report of the UN Committee in the UNGGIM working group on Geospatial Societies
11. Review pending actions
12. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: Vicky
• Attending: Angelos, Ariel, Michael, Tom, Rajat, Vicky
• Guests: Ivan, Jody

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2023-11-28
• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/10ealAFS/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-11-28

Election Status

• Charter member results https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-December/013435.html
• Motion: Approve charter member election results 2023
  • Motion by Angelos (+1)
  • Seconded by Tom (+1)
  • Vicky +1
  • Michael +1
  • Ariel +1
  • Rajat +1
  • Motion passed during the meeting.
• Welcome new charter members!

• Board Elections
  • Short campaigning period to start as all the nominees have accepted the nomination
  • 60 people did not submit their vote.
  • 25 people with invalid e-mail address

OSGeo Budget 2024

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2024
• ACTION: Michael to review 2023 spending (Done)
• This board starts creating the budget
• Meeting with new board to finish up and wrap the budget
• The new board will approve the budget

Joint OGC-ASF-OSGeo Code Sprint

• https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/165
• 26~28 Feb hybrid 3 days & pre event webinar
• ACTION: Tom will announce once its official in OGC

Annual sponsorship opportunities, reminder to sponsor OSGeo

• Added to call for budget, some response.
  • Many projects have “standing pages” for sponsorship which we can use?
  • Can check prior announce from previous years
  • ACTION: Jody make a call-for-sponsorship, send draft to discuss, and publish early January (Done)

Report back from representing OSGeo at foss4g-asia

• Jody represented OSGeo at the event.
  • Keynote and interacting with politicians was slightly stressful but fine
    • Not very much awareness of OSGeo sponsorship
    • Opportunities for MOU with Project PLATEAU (need follow up)
    • Booth was out of the way, but productive for:
    • Setting up new local chapters (folks were not clear that they can just set up informally first, and then move on to recognition)
    • Joining OSGeo as a member; the sign in form was terribly hard for anyone to figure out (barrier to entry). The workflow is hard to difficult? Tom suggest looking at OGC page?
    • Jody did make some improvement to the form which will help: https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/create
    • People specifically requested a video on how to do this (so they could pause)
    • Encouraging projects to join
• ZOO-Project funding was not approved in time for the event, not even standing funds for an OSGeo project? Microsoft supported the project and was thanked.
  • Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/yqtJGNCm/motion-to-approve-3300-usd-for-zoo-project-funding-2023
• ACTION: Angelos to follow up with ZOO PSC about an updated budget request (Done)
• ACTION: Board to contact PLATEAU project.

Join DPGA (Digital Public Goods Alliance)

• https://digitalpublicgoods.net/who-we-are/
• Ariel and Angelos had a meeting with DPGA
• An MOU was discussed but it is not required.
• We can invite DPGA to reach out to our community and projects to get them interested to become part of the DGPA list https://digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/

Report of the UN Committee in the UNGGIM working group on Geospatial Societies

• Started participation on meetings
• UN committee needs to get activated (web site updates, new chair approval)

Review pending actions

• Review was done by Angelos

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2024-01-30