Board Meeting 2026-01-26

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 26 January 2026 at 17:00 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_2026-01-20
4. Executive positions
5. Coordination for the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF sprint
6. SAC Funding and Volunteer work
7. 20 years OSGeo on February [1]
8. OSGeo European Legal Entity updates and opportunities (continued)
9. OSGeo Budget 2026
10. Funding ideas for 2026
11. Conference Committee (LoI FOSS4G 2027)
12. Cyber Resilience Act
13. New membership process
14. FOSS4G 2026 preparation update and requests
15. Add your topic here

Minutes

• Presiding: Angelos
• Scribing: all
• Attending: Mike, Codrina, Jeroen, Joana, Tom, Tim, Angelos
• Guests: Astrid, Ariel

Review and approve past minutes

• Board_Meeting_2026-01-20
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/4jYEfLFp/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2026-01-20

Executive positions

• Jeroen as candidate for President
• Tom as VP for North America, Liaison with SAC committee
• Codrina as VP for Europe, Liaison with Conference Committee / FOSS4G global conference (and regionals?), Code Sprints
• Mike as Treasurer
• Tim as Liaison with Sponsorship
• Astrid to remain as Secretary?
• ACTION: Create a Loomio discussion, fill in the roles and then make a motion to approve.
• Loomio link: https://www.loomio.com/d/5jiKNtgb/executive-positions-2026

Coordination for the Joint OGC-OSGeo-ASF sprint

• Low project participation: GeoPython projects, Rasdaman
• ACTION: Contact more projects
• ACTION: Angelos to email OGC about the sprint landing page (Done)

SAC Funding and Volunteer work

• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2026-January/013819.html
• ACTION: Tom to review the table on https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo/issues/204
• Look at migration of wordpress to static mkdocs markdown site via git workflow?

20 years OSGeo on February

• https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/todo/issues/192
• ACTION: News item (Astrid)
• ACTION: email to prepare the community for OSGeo birthday (Tom, Astrid, all)
• Ask projects to add a banner from OSGeo
• ACTION: Prepare a birthday banner (Astrid).

OSGeo European Legal Entity updates and opportunities (continued)

• Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/d/wmgVSUED/proposal-establishment-of-an-osgeo-legal-entity-in-europe

OSGeo Budget 2026

• ACTION: Angelos to update the budget wiki page and open a motion on Loomio. (Done)
• OSGeo_Budget_2026 wiki updated
• Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/Lm4qrO2V/motion-to-approve-the-osgeo-budget-for-2026

Funding ideas for 2026

• Moved to next meeting

Conference Committee (LoI FOSS4G 2027)

• Moved to next meeting

Cyber Resilience Act

• Jeroen to attend the {code & compliance} event FOSDEM edition in Brussels on 29 January 2026

New membership process

• Moved to next meeting

FOSS4G 2026 preparation update and requests

• Official Web Site is alive
  • https://2026.foss4g.org
• CfP
  • General Tracks https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2026/cfp
  • Workshop https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2026-workshop/cfp
  • Academic https://talks.osgeo.org/fossg4-2026-academic-track/cfp
• email for Scientific Committee

Actions

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

IRC Log

• no log, Jitsi meeting

Next meeting

• Board Meeting 2026-02-24