Board Meeting 2023-10-31

This board meeting is scheduled Tuesday 31 October 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_2023-09-26
# Review pending actions (EU CRA directive, FOSS4G Asia invitation)
# Community Sprint 2023 updates
# Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF Code Sprint 2024
# Elections status (update from CRO)
# Start process for OSGeo Budget 2024
# OSGeo Sponsorship Request for Pista ng Mapa 
# MOU renewal with AGILE
# OSGeo representation at the EU Open Source Policy Summit, regarding CRA
## Iván Sánchez volunteers to participate (panel? talk?) there.
# Overture Maps and standards
# Purchase GMAIL Business Starter account for foss4g-europe.org domain. Details at 2997
# Add your topic here
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Angelos
* Scribing: Codrina
* Attending: Angelos, Codrina, Michael, Tom, Ariel, Vicky, Rajat
* Guests: Simone Giannecchini, Jody Garnett, Iván Sánchez
=== Review and approve past minutes ===
* Board_Meeting_2023-09-26
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/paxZeOfP/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2023-09-26
=== Review pending actions ===
* FOSS4G Asia invitation: 
** Rajat can’t go. Jody is attending and can represent OSGeo. We don’t know yet if Marco can attend. 
** ACTION: Angelos to reply and nominate Jody to represent OSGeo (Done)
* EU CRA directive
** Ticket: https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/159
** notes collected from community meeting
** Background reading: https://www.euractiv.com/section/cybersecurity/news/eu-policymakers-advance-on-open-source-software-support-period-in-new-cybersecurity-law/
** Board did not manage to draft the answer yet, even if already met on the topic
** Oct 20: deadline for collecting feedback and we missed on that
** Nov 8: when the collected answers will be circulated by the EC. A small update from the OSGeo to the community should be sent to discuss mailing list: CRA matters, this affects our ecosystem and it is useful to talk to your local politician. 
** ACTION: draft the (short) answer of OSGeo (Jody, Angelos, Simone and Ivan) (Done).
** Draft available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_k4RRDs8ZOODMsUyrMnhGI2SNzi5gCFekzfDfBurUA/edit#heading=h.fkxiqlqdj0eu
** https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/eu-cyber-resilience-act/
=== OSGeo representation at the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2024, regarding CRA ===
* https://summit.openforumeurope.org/ 
* Motion to cover the expenses from the board for Ivan travel
** Motion by Angelos, seconded by Michael, all in favor
** Motion passes unanimous
* ACTION: Jody to contact the Summit people to see if Ivan can get a slot to talk
=== Elections status (update from CRO) ===
* Ivan: We are a bit late with the process
* We need to set the board election process timeline: mid Nov to start the nomination for board members
=== Community Sprint 2023 updates ===
* Venue fully paid by ESA
* EOX is organizing the sprint social event (80 people for 6k)
* 53 from the wiki, about 140 from the BiDS registration
=== Joint OSGeo/OGC/ASF Code Sprint 2024 ===
* Tom: OGC&Apache&OSGeo discussion to organise the 2024 one: February (the week of 26: Monday - Thursday) Location - Évora, Portugal, at the University
* The venue is available for the last week of February; 
* ACTION: (Tom) send email to discuss mailing list once we have an update from Gobe Hobona saying what dates we are considering.
=== Start process for OSGeo Budget 2024 ===
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2024
* ACTION: Angelos to send out announcements to projects for them to send their request for the budget (Done)
* Jody: to introduce in the message to the projects: How sponsors can support them with in 2024? Example: GeoTools-2024-Sponsorship-Opportunities
* The goal is to ask projects for their “project budget” for 2024:
** Ask what opportunities there are for sponsors and OSGeo to support?
** Then in that context ask what financial support they would like from OSGeo to meet those goals/objectives/maintenance
** Ensure we have a template for projects to copy and paste: (the only communication that matters)
=== OSGeo Sponsorship Request for Pista ng Mapa ===
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-September/013369.html
* ACTION: Angelos to do a Loomio motion for OSGeo to support at Major Sponsor level (4000 USD)(Done)
* Motion open on Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/p/WF568OVe/motion-for-osgeo-to-support-pista-ng-mapa-at-major-sponsor-level-4000-usd-
=== MOU renewal with AGILE ===
* ACTION: Angelos to send them the MOU template (Done)
* We are willing to move forward
=== Overture Maps and standards ===
* Overture Maps is a foundation coming up with geospatial data and products without involving much of the geospatial standards
* Geomob podcast: https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-163 
* ACTION for all
** Read and come back for discussion in next meeting
** Please consider the feedback from Miriam: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2023-November/013394.html
=== Purchase GMAIL Business Starter account for foss4g-europe.org domain ===
* https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2997
* ACTION: Vicky to ask Regina
* ACTION: Angelos to create a Loomio motion to approve.
=== Actions ===
* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
== IRC Log ==
* no log, Jitsi meeting
== Next meeting ==
*Board Meeting 2023-11-28
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