Board Meeting 2024-12-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 December 2024 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_2024-12-01
# Welcome new board members
# Executive positions
# OSGeo Budget 2025
# Pretalx use for external conference 
# Transfer of geoext.org domain to OSGeo 
# Registration of a Zenodo group for the OSGeo Foundation 
# Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025 
# Request for funding the GeoStyler Code Sprint 2025 
# Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization
# 5 mins OSGeo pitch in different languages
# OSGeo Website Workplan
# Add your topic here
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Angelos
* Scribing: Rajat
* Attending: Angelos, Joana, Vicky, Michael, Jeroen, Rajat, Tom
* Guests: Jody
=== Welcome new board members ===
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors/OnboardingChecklist
* Joanna already subscribed to mailing list
* ACTION: Vicky and Angelos to check back again in the new year after the vacations.
=== Review and approve past minutes ===
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2024-12-01
* ACTION: Go through the meeting minutes and discuss in the next meeting, if there are any standing topics
=== Executive Positions ===
* Moved to next meeting
=== OSGeo Budget 2025 ===
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2025
* Tentative date for Budget meeting - 1700-2000 UTC January 17, 2025?
=== Pretalx use for external conference ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013584.html 
* ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio (Done)
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/JknMVq2p/motion-to-approve-pretalx-use-for-small-and-affiliated-conferences
=== Transfer of geoext.org domain to OSGeo ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-November/013585.html
* The request is valid
* SAC doesn’t handle all domains; some domains are handled on company levels; some domain costs are paid by individual budgets
* ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio (Done)
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/26dMeO4A/motion-to-transfer-of-geoext-org-domain-to-osgeo
=== Registration of a Zenodo group for the OSGeo Foundation ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013592.html
* Relevant to OSGeo. Zenodo has been used in FOSS4G Belem.
* The board agrees to proceed.
* ACTION: Angelos to make a motion on Loomio (Done)
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/ghmxkQSN/motion-to-approve-registration-of-a-zenodo-group-for-the-osgeo-foundation
=== Travel Grant Funding Request for FOSS4G 2025 ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013595.html
* To be discussed during the budget discussion
* ACTION: Angelos to add this request to the budget wiki page (Done)
=== Request for funding the GeoStyler Code Sprint 2025 ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2024-December/013598.html 
* To be discussed during the budget discussion
* ACTION: Angelos to add this request to the budget wiki page (Done)
=== Reduce number of members with "owner" role in OSGeo GitHub organization ===
* https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3298
* At time there are former OSGeo members with full access to everything (including deletion of the entire OSGeo GitHub organization)
* The board agrees to review the list, establish criteria and provide feedback to SAC
* GitHub teams can be also used.
* ACTION: All to review the list and make a policy draft
=== 5 mins OSGeo pitch in different languages ===
* ACTION: Angelos to share the OSGeo presentation with Joanna (Done)
* https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ve5ZI0HzY7CBqeq3gVI9fTTBsV4_I0C6RbTUAdCUsBc/edit?usp=sharing
=== OSGeo Website Workplan ===
* To be discussed at the budget meeting
=== Actions ===
* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting
== Next meeting ==
*Board Meeting 2025-01-28
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