Board Meeting 2021-06-28

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 28 June 2021 at 15:00 UTC through Jitsi, a record of motions is preserved on loomio and actions on osgeo todo issue tracker.
== Agenda ==
=== Current items ===
# roll call
# Review and approve past minutes
# Accept the Mesh Data Abstraction Layer (MDAL) Project as an OSGeo Community Project
# Update on FOSS4G 2021
# AGM planning - Annual_General_Meeting_2021
# OSGeo - HOT MOU review
# Update on the GSoC Org Stipend From the OSGeo GSoC Admin Team
# NumFocus/GDAL update
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Till
* Scribing: Till
* Attending: Angelos, Helena, Codrina, Vicky, Michele, Michael, Till, Tom (8 of 9), Astrid (later)
* Guests: Maria (FOSS4G 2021), Ariel Antheni (FOSS4G 2021), Rajat (GSoC)
=== Review and approve past minutes ===
* Board_Meeting_2021-05-31
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/5ToKsQmW/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-05-31
=== Accept the Mesh Data Abstraction Layer (MDAL) Project as an OSGeo Community Project ===
* https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2021-June/004354.html
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/dqMj5ZuE/accept-the-mesh-data-abstraction-layer-mdal-project-as-an-osgeo-community-project-
=== Update on FOSS4G 2021 ===
Maria and Ariel (FOSS4G 2021) report:
* FOSS4G Shop - If board agrees Maria will open a new FOSS4G shop and money goes directly to OSGeo. Nobody knows where money for old shop goes to
* AGM Booked 1h for AGM, early in the morning
* ACTION: Requests a video from Angelos about OSGeo (10 Minutes) for the opening.
* Venueless will be used
* Anita needs access to OSgeo bank acccount (PayPal), Micheal to do
* Maria informs about status of programme, etc.
* Board will receive codes for registration soon
* Maria gives summary of the budget
* Maria requests if board agrees on offering reduced tickets, that may reduce the outcome
* Board agrees
=== AGM planning - Annual_General_Meeting_2021 ===
* Request for small videos and merge them together (projects, local chapters)
* ACTION: Astrid and Angelos to make draft for the email, Angelos to send out
* ACTION: Astrid to ask Volker Mische
* OSGeo has a time slot
** needs to be figured out in next meeting (July) 
* Vicky offers to cut the videos together
=== OSGeo - HOT MOU review ===
* Angelos added it to agenda, email form Miriam and review the document
* ACTION: Helena to copy the document to the WIKI (done)
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_HOT
* approve on next meeting
=== NumFocus/GDAL update ===
* Mike and Angelos joined the NumFocus/GDAL meeting
* document uploaded in the nextcloud to be reviewed by board members
=== Update on the GSoC Org Stipend From the OSGeo GSoC Admin Team ===
* Rajat send an email to participating organizations
* 12 students will participate this year
* Rajat asks what to do with the money google pays (400 US $)
* GSoc will be able to present wotk on FOSs4G 2021, thanks FOSS4G 2021 team
* Maria asks emails of participants in order to be able to add them as speakers
* Board approves that projects can claim for the money and do what they want with it (to be better formulated by Helena and put on Loomio as a motion)
** motion passed during meeting
== IRC Log ==
* meeting was on jitsi
== Next meeting ==
*Board Meeting 2021-07-26
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