Board Meeting 2022-05-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 May 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_2022-04-25
# OGC / OSGeo MOU update
# FOSS4G 2022
# Bolsena 2022 Funding Request
# CRO: voting statistics for past elections, retiring process of charter members
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Michele Tobias
* Scribing: Adam Steer
* Attending: Michele Tobias, Adam Steer, Vicky Vergara, Angelos Tzotsos, Codrina Ilie, Tom Kralidis, Rajat Shinde, Marco Bernasocchi
* Guests: Anne Ghisla, Brian Hamlin
=== Review and approve past minutes ===
* Board_Meeting_2022-04-25
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/x9flupy0/approve-meeting-minutes-from-board-meeting-2022-04-25
=== OGC OSGeo MoU ===
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80
* The board needs to review the press release. OSGeo and OGC to deliver joint keynote at FOSS4G, so there is some pressure.
* Two sections in particular need review / adding: "About OSGeo", and a quote from OSGeo.
* Tom asked the board to consider the message OSGeo wants to give in the MoU press release. 
* MoU release time - both end of June and at FOSS4G discussed, end of June seems to be the consensus
* Comments on the draft press release will be accepted until 3 June, at which point the press release will be returned to OGC for final edits and release.
=== FOSS4G 2022 ===
* Discussion of board travel plans for FOSS4G Firenze.
* A decision was reached to hold a face to face meeting on Saturday 27 August at the same time as the code sprint
* Codrina will ask the Firenze LOC if we can use a room at the code sprint venue.
 
=== Bolsena 2022 Funding Request ===
* EU2000 is requested from OSGeo to assist a code sprint in Bolsena: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Bolsena_Code_Sprint_2022#OSGeo_Funding_Request
* Motion passed on Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/f8K3nQxN/bolsena-2022-code-sprint-funding-request
=== CRO: voting statistics for past elections, retiring process of charter members ===
* Discussion about how to retire inactive charter members, meaning everyone who has not voted for 2-3 elections
* We propose to contact all inactive charter members to initialise discussion about what they want to do.
* Discussion about putting a page on the OSGeo wiki about voluntary retirement - and automatic/silent retirement (as exceptional procedure of 2022, and clarified for subsequent years)
* Anne as CRO will then write on discuss list asking to contact CRO either to update the email, or to retire as per the procedure on the wiki
=== NASA discussion / open science meeting ===
* Condrina reported on an informal meeting with ESA and NASA about open source communities at ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, attended by Codrina and Adam. 
* This sparked a discussion to follow up on meeting with the NASA TOPS program.
=== Actions ===
* Board to review OGC/OSGeo MoU press release and make any comments by 3 June (Done)
* Codrina will ask Luca (FOSS4G Firenze LOC chair) if we can use the code sprint venue for a board meeting
* Anne Ghisla to prepare a page on voluntary retirement for the OSGeo wiki, board to approve before publication on wiki
* Angelos to e-mail NASA about open science meeting (Done)
* See https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues
== IRC Log ==
* no log, a jitsi meeting
== Next meeting ==
*Board Meeting 2022-06-27
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