Board Meeting 2020-08-31

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 31 August 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 ===
# roll call
#* appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
# Review and approve past minutes
#* Board_Meeting_2020-07-27
#* Board_Meeting_2020-07-29
# Appoint CRO for 2020 elections.
# AGM planning
## https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
## AGM hosting platform
### https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2500
## AGM additional rooms
## AGM slide status
# GeoNode participation in NFDI4Agriculture consortium 
# UN Open GIS - Geo-AI consultation request
# Microsoft meeting update
# FOSS4G 2021 planning update
# 1st Virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific 
# Proceedings Inquiry 
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Till
* Scribing: all
* Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Till, Tom, Astrid, Victoria, Michael, Vicky
* Guests:
===Review and approve past minutes===
* Board_Meeting_2020-07-27
** Loomio motion: https://www.loomio.org/d/U6KsnzvW/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-07-27
** Motion approved
* Board_Meeting_2020-07-29
** Loomio motion: https://www.loomio.org/d/1yl6AtrZ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-07-29
** Motion pending
=== AGM planning ===
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/84
* ACTION: (Angelos, Astrid) mail to the projects and mail to all lists again with new time, platform and reminder to change the slides till 08.09.2020
* Ask for rooms, ask for topics for the after discussion
* Announce financial discussion - how can OSGeo finances can be saved
* Did we send a mail to our partners?
* New meeting on 09.09.2020 16 UTC
==== AGM hosting platform ====
* https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2500
* We will switch to zoom
* Rooms? 
** in the mail we can mention that LC or projects can have a room before the meeting
** after the meeting we the room for more OSGeo discussion and a Geobeer room
* ACTION: (Till): sum up possibilities to zoom accounts and send it via email to board. (Michael) create account on zoom. Till to close SAC ticket
* Need to record session and upload on youtube later
==== AGM additional rooms ====
* X (depends on available rooms) rooms for projects 1h before the meeting takes places
* one room after meeting for OSGeo topics and one “virtual geobeer” room
==== AGM slide status ====
* FOSS4G
** add slides about FOSS4G future Calgary/Argentina and RFC2022
** 2022 Italien team would like to run FOSS4G, they are working on their bid
* ACTION: Codrina to share a document for the conference committee.
=== GeoNode participation in NFDI4Agriculture consortium ===
* GeoNode wants to participate in this consortium, a legal entity is needed 
* Codrina sends document that explains the obligations for OSGeo. 
* ACTION: Till and Astrid to read and sum up for the board
=== UN Open GIS - Geo-AI consultation request ===
* 11. September UN Open GIS Artificial Intelligence for Geospatial - Consultation VTC
* Angelos could join the meeting as OSGeo president
* We should ask the Community about the activities in Geo-AI
* ACTION: Mail and room before/at AGM
=== Microsoft meeting update ===
* ACTION: Mike will create account for MS and provide to potential users (SAC)
=== Appoint CRO for 2020 elections ===
* Make a LOOMIO ticket and approve Jorge and Anne as CRO’s
* https://www.loomio.org/d/DxPmsgVe/appoint-chief-returning-officer-for-2020-member-elections-and-board-elections
* Vicky helps CRO’s with statistics in order to see, who of the charter-members is inactive
* After the approvement CRO will provide a schedule to discuss in the wiki
* No help is needed from SAC
=== FOSS4G 2021 planning update ===
* ACTION: Till to ask BLOC to join next board meeting
=== 1st Virtual UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-August/012743.html
* ACTION: Astrid Contact local chapters/members in Asia to participate. / mail to discuss
* https://uia.org/roundtable/2020/asiapacificfor
=== Proceedings Inquiry ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-August/012755.html
* https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
* https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/
* ACTION: Astrid will contact person from TIB and provide contact persons form conferences, refer to link of ISPRS https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W14/
== Actions ==
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
== IRC Log ==
* http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-08-31.log
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