Board Meeting 2021-01-25

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 January 2021 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_2020-12-28
#* Board_Meeting_2021-01-18
# 2021 Budget approval 
# OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues
# FOSS research Foundations
# OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up
# response to GDAL support email
# response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up?
# GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4?
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Till
* Scribing: Till, Mike
* Attending: Codrina, Michele, Helena, Astrid, Till, Mike, Angelos, Tom, Vicky (later), Jody (guest for the GDAL topic)
=== Review and approve past minutes ===
==== Board_Meeting_2020-12-28 ====
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XBW42QJZ/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2020-12-28
==== Board_Meeting_2021-01-18 ====
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/6R7BcrlA/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2021-01-18
=== 2021 Budget approval ===
* in budget call next year make clear, that there is no money to take over (again!)
* small change in GRASS GIS budget
* cut budget for SAC for 1 contract (4400 US $) and ask them to come back during the year if this is needed.
* dedicate 5000$ for travel grant programme and look if FOSS4G Argentina is onside, no support for regional events
* board agrees with the budget
* Action: Angelos to update the WIKI and open the motion on loomio (done)
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/XenD58Tj/review-and-approve-osgeo-budget-for-2021
=== OSGeo/FOSS4G Sponsoring issues ===
* Astrid proposes to create a working group on sponsorship as it is hard to get that finalized during the board meetings
* Astrid proposes to work on the already written tickets during the code sprint
* Camptocamp requested whether development is valuable as sponsorship, discussion on how to deal with this. 
** Work is hard to value, because many people contribute in several ways to projects
** important to keep the door open for companies sponsoring OSGeo with money
* Action: Astrid to create a doodle for the first meeting for the sponsors group
=== FOSS research Foundations ===
* Astrid forwarded an email from Martin Michlmayr who sent a questioniare and asked us for help in his work on a report on FOSS Foundations
* Action: Codrina to have a closer look on this questionaire
=== Response to GDAL support email ===
* discussion on this email, Angelos proposed to receive sponnsorship via the OSGeo github repo
* probably a problem for a lot of groups in our community, proposal to setup a kind of structure to support these groups in case of such an emergency
* topic is connected to the sponsorship issue (see above)
=== OSGeo-HOT boards meeting update and follow up ===
* meeting on collaboration OSGeo with HOT
* goal of HOT is to map 1 billion people
* scope of co-operation is to support this project on a long term basis (financing is only for 5 years save)
* preparation of MoU
* frequent meeting every 3 months to keep in touch
=== Response to Bloomberg contact request - did QGIS follow up? ===
* Helena asks whether there was a response
* Action: Helena to follow up here
=== GeoNetwork inquiry on Elasticsearch SSL license change, can this still be used for geonetwork 4? ===
* take up in an email (brought up by Jody)
* some of our projects are based on Elastic Search, so probably need to get rid of it
== Actions ==
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
== IRC Log ==
* the meeting was held on Jitsy
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Category:Board Meetings 2021