Board Meeting 2020-07-27

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 27 July 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
#* Board_Meeting_2020-06-29
# AGM Annual General Meeting 2020
# Charter member elections planning
# Review action items from past meetings
# Certification from OSGeo 
# UCGIS MoU update, GISc Body of Knowledge OSGeo Live chapter author needed
# Sol Katz Award 2020
# recognize geostyler as joining the osgeo community program 
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Till
* Scribing: Angelos
* Attending: Till, Angelos, Mike, Helena, Astrid, Tom, Codrina
* Guests: Jody Garnett
===Review and approve past minutes===
* Board_Meeting_2020-06-29 
* Motion on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/7FyWVKcj/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-06-29
===AGM===
* Discussion about potential dates for a virtual AGM
* AGM on thursday, 10th of September at 18:00 UTC
* Discussion on platform (Jitsi or other).
* ACTION: Till to discuss with Markus and SAC about hosting platform.
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
* Annual General Meeting 2020
===Charter member elections planning===
* ACTION: Angelos to contact previous CRO team (Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla)
* Potential elections kick off 15th Sept.
===Certification from OSGeo===
* Post on Board mailing list
* If someone wants to do it, we would support that effort but it shouldn't be done by the board. Perhaps a new committee and some volunteers?
* ACTION: Astrid can write the response and forward to the discuss list
===UCGIS MoU update===
* Helena is working with John Wilson on expanding open source geospatial in UCGIS GIST Body of knowledge and is looking for volunteer to write about OSGeoLive
* ACTION: Angelos to bring up to the next OSGeoLive meeting
===Sol Katz Award 2020===
* Jeff wrote a mail and would like to start the process for Sol Katz Award 2020 
* The award will be given at the end of AGM
===Recognize Geostyler as joining the OSGeo Community program===
* GeoStyler OSGeo page
MOT1: Motion to recognize Geostyler as joining the OSGeo Community program
* Angelos: +1 (Initial motion)
* Helena: +1 (Seconded)
* Till: 0
* Tom: +1
* Codrina: +1
* Mike: +1
* Motion moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/Hp3Sxso8/recognize-geostyler-as-joining-the-osgeo-community-program
===Review action items from past meetings===
* Angelos to send the Microsoft wish list soon
* Astrid will send the mail to OSGeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors
== Actions ==
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
* Till to discuss with Markus and SAC about AGM hosting platform. (DONE)
* Angelos to contact previous CRO team (Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla) about 2020 elections. (DONE)
* Astrid to write the certification response and forward to the discuss list (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/88)
* Angelos to bring up UCGIS to the next OSGeoLive meeting. (DONE)
* Angelos to send the Microsoft wish list. (DONE)
* Astrid to send the mail to OSGeo sponsors and former FOSS4G sponsors (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/81)
== IRC Log ==
* http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-07-27.log
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