Board Meeting 2020-12-07

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 07 December 2020 at 16:00 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_2020-11-30
# Review of 2020 Board period and offboarding
# OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint News item
# Apache-OGC-OSGeo Code Sprint planning (Feb 2021)
# Next Community Sprint invitation
# Communication Board-Mailing-list
# Communication charter members mailing list https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/charter-members
# Review action items
# please add items
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Angelos
* Scribing: Astrid
* Attending: Helena, Michael, Victoria, Angelos, Astrid, Codrina, Tom, Till (late)
=== Review and approve past minutes===
https://www.loomio.org/d/d19srE7Q/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-11-30
=== Review of 2020 Board period and offboarding ===
* challenging time due to pandemic, looks like there is less time due to the pandemic
* limitations of virtual
* work is distributed, everybody is doing things
* good discussions and successful motions
* it was fun to be in the board
* FOSS4G big descission on refunding the event
* Successful virtual AGM (let's do it always virtual)
* Communication with OGC / ISO
ideas for board activities
* be better prepared for the meetings
* make offboarding meeting part of the board activity. It is good to review and take tome to say goodby to leaving board members 
general ideas for the future
* more mails, mails to charter members, local chapters
* get people from all of the world involved
* Limesurvey - What is the community thinking about OSGeo, ideas (short survey)
* charter member election
** promote nomination earlier and remind, promote nomination on the lists charter/projects
** project psc - invite them to get charter members if there are not charter members already 
* board election
** in advance reach out to people personally and on the list to find more candidates 
* work on the vision / position of OSGeo / better communication
* reach out to the middle east - this area is not visible at the moment
=== OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint News item === 
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/100 News item
* AE Ticket and Draft
* mention Feb 2021 for next code sprint
=== Apache-OGC-OSGeo Code Sprint planning (Feb 2021) === 
* Angelos / Tom are involved
* Meeting about organization is coming
* no exact time yet 
* registration & co via OGC
* Wiki page at OSGeo wiki as usaual for OSGeo information
* Mail to projects TODO Tom (review board) 
=== Communication Board-Mailing-list=== 
* please use the board mailing list for non private communication. We are very active and this may not be visible from the outside
=== Communication charter members mailing list === 
* https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/charter-members
* postponed to next meeting with the new board
=== Review action items === 
* postponed to next meeting with the new board
== Actions ==
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
== IRC Log ==
* http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2020-12-07.log
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