Board Meeting 2022-04-25

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 25 April 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_2022-03-28
# OSGeo Budget 2022
# Boundary condition of the open source software foundation with respect to transition of software to services.
# e-mail account policy
# Kart Project's Org Stipend for the GSoC 2022
# Geospatial World Forum
# FOSS4G 2022
# GeoLIBERO clarifications
# Inactive members-
# PDAL on #osgeolive 2022 (time allowing)
# Add your topic here
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Michele
* Scribing: Marco
* Attending: Marco, Michele, Angelos, Michael, Rajat, Vicky, Adam
* Guests: Regina, Luca, Brian
=== Review and approve past minutes ===
* Board_Meeting_2022-03-28
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/p/mPFXgZ2f/motion-to-approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-03-28
=== OSGeo Budget 2022 ===
* Motion approved, we can now operate normally
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2022 has been finalized.
* https://www.loomio.org/p/neBqcF9Y/motion-to-approve-osgeo-2022-budget
=== Boundary condition of the open-source software foundation with respect to the transition of software to services ===
* Jody brought this up and is asking the board if we’re ok to include or endorse SaaS
* We agree that If the code used in the SaaS (Software as a Service) is deployable on its own instances then it can be treated as a project. 
* The service is not the interesting part, the deployable code is.
* The projects wanting to be incubated are to prove that they are deployable
 
=== E-mail account policy ===
* In the past, there were already requests for @osgeo.org accounts. If everyone would have one real account, it would burn all SAC hours
* We need to address the cost-benefits by asking SAC if there are resources
* We need to make sure there is a clear policy
* Regina says definitely we do not do real mailboxes
* We are not doing aliases either
 
=== Kart Project's Org Stipend for the GSoC 2022 ===
* If they do it they should do it as a donation
* We should ask them if they want to join OSGeo
 
=== Geospatial World Forum ===
* Travel and stay expenses for the representative (Luca) of OSGeo are covered as if it was a board member since the board asked.
 
=== FOSS4G 2022 ===
* Late with tickets registrations since there was a DooS attack on the system
* No posters, instead lightning talks
* About 400 talks 
* All smooth besides registration
 
=== GeoLIBERO clarifications ===
* If they do not have a local chapter then that is much welcomed
* Spread awareness using the OSGeo Announcements or News or Discuss lists (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/News_Queue)
* Review if the initiatives and events align with existing projects and initiatives and join hands
 
=== Inactive members ===
* How do we deal with 100 people that did not vote for over 2 years?
* If there is no participation in voting then some kind of warning can be issued
* Important to consider that if there are any changes in email addresses leading to missing the email notifications
* Good to do it on personal note instead of group announcement
* There shall not be different classifications of retirement
* Thinking on the active members that didn't vote in at least the last 2 years. Probably there was an e-mail change, (or other some valid reason of not participating). We should reach out at a personal level to clarify.
 
=== PDAL on OSGeoLive 2022 ===
* Issues in debain packaging of pdal (https://pdal.io/)
* Conda can’t be used on OSGeoLive
* What exactly is required from board? (considering PDAL is not an OSGeo affiliated project)
* Considering it as a technical problem, a solution can be figured out internally for inclusion of PDAL in OSGeoLive
=== Actions ===
* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
== IRC Log ==
* no log, a jitsi meeting
== Next meeting ==
*Board Meeting 2022-05-30
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