Board Meeting 2022-09-26

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 26 September 2022 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 
# appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
# Review and approve past minutes
#* Board_Meeting_2022-08-27
# Meet with SmartGEO Expo group
# Project trademarks
# GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)
# OSGeo EU - ESA
# GeoForAll website updates
# Website 
# FOSS4G 2022 budget questions
# Research Organization Registry entry 
# Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework
# Add your topic here
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Michele
* Scribing: Angelos
* Attending: Michele, Codrina, Adam, Vicky, Angelos, Michael, Marco, Rajat
* Guests: Eric (SmartGEO Expo), Luca
===Review and approve past minutes===
====Board_Meeting_2022-08-27====
* Motion passed on Loomio. https://www.loomio.com/p/mz5eFTSA/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-08-27
===Meet with SmartGEO Expo group===
* Introduction to SmartGeo Expo (5 mins)
* Invitation for an OSGeo member to represent OSGeo
** Includes trip & accommodation
* MoU discussion
* Vicky might be able to join the event, else Sanghee can represent. (Mexico does not need visa for tourism)
* Start discussions during this year’s event.
* ACTION: Board to decide who is going to represent within 1 week (Done, Vicky will attend).
===Project trademarks===
* https://www.osgeo.org/legal-information/
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IP_Issues_Discussion_Document
* Example from QField
* Legal process, justify the trademark
* Cost is increasing depending on country number
* ACTION: Angelos to ask previous board members involved in OSGeo trademark (Done).
* ACTION: Angelos to e-mail to Paul. ask for some research regarding cost (Done).
* Wiki page, procedure on how to do this
===Website===
* Discuss: Member pages (hide members without filled profile)
* Action: Project's update officer's/representative 
** Post Action: Generate automatically the list of project officers
* Discuss: Statement on report slide mentions that: "From the committees' pages you will find the missions, names of the people involved, and links to the working documents." That is not true.
** Post Action?: Work the committees similarly as projects. Where officers can be assigned, and active members of the committee can be listed.
* Discuss: Charter member pages: User name + last name.===OSGeo EU - ESA===
* Discuss: Use tags on news items (to help out with the Annual report).
* Discuss: Auto move the old un-format-able "Biography" (Now Mission) to the format-able Biography.
* News Vs Community news
===FOSS4G 2022 budget questions===
* Work to finalize budget
* One sponsor went directly to OSGeo. (balance after surplus)
* Money from JRC (half from 2021, half from 2022) Proposal for LOC to keep most part of this money since they did proposal + deliverables. To be decided after surplus numbers are known.
* Travel grant money (balance after surplus)
===Application for OSGeo Community Project - ETF testing framework===
* There is a number of projects in the queue
* ACTION: Contact the committee about status.
===GISTAM 2023 : Partnership proposal with The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (2nd reminder)===
Moved to e-mail/next meeting
===OSGeo EU - ESA===
Moved to e-mail/next meeting
===GeoForAll website updates===
Moved to e-mail/next meeting
===Research Organization Registry entry===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2022-September/013122.html
* Moved to e-mail/next meeting
=== Actions ===
* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
== IRC Log ==
* no log, a jitsi meeting
== Next meeting ==
*Board Meeting 2022-10-17
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