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 ===
# roll call 
# appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
# Review and approve past minutes
#* Board_Meeting_2023-11-28
# Elections status
# OSGeo Budget 2024
# Joint OGC-ASF-OSGeo Code Sprint
# Annual sponsorship opportunities, reminder to sponsor osgeo
# Report back from representing OSGeo at foss4g-asia
# Join DPGA (Digital Public Goods Aliance)
# Report of the UN Committee in the UNGGIM working group on Geospatial Societies 
# Review pending actions
# 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
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