Board Meeting 2019-12-30

This board meeting is scheduled Monday 30 December 2019 at 14:00 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 2019-12-09
# Onboarding
# Appoint new OSGeo Officers.
# Approve seed funds for FOSS4G 2021
# Review actions list.
# Question about the UNIGIS MoU https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_UNIGIS
# Add more agenda items here...
== Minutes ==
* Presiding: Angelos
* Scribing: All, Astrid transfers the protocol to the wiki
* Attending: Mike, Astrid, Angelos, Till, Victoria, Helena, Codrina
==== Review and approve past minutes Board Meeting 2019-12-09====
 
MOT1: Approve meeting notes: 2019-12-09
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2019-12-09
* Angelos: Motion started +1
* Mike: Seconded +1
* Codrina: +1
* Astrid: +1
* Till: +1
* Victoria: +1
* Helena: +1
* Vicky: +1
* Motion passed during the meeting
* Motion on Loomio https://www.loomio.org/d/uwKCv1d6/approve-meeting-minutes-for-2019-12-09
==== Discussion about Loomio ====
* Loomio is asking for a fee this year: 10 $ per year for entire group
* Alternatively we could install it on our own infrastructure
* Who is the owner of the loomio account? At the moment everybody of the board is registered. We have to find out whether there is an owner.
* After Discussion everyone would like to continue to work on loomio on the public version.
* ACTION: Michael - upgrade loomio account. (DONE by Michael. 10 $ per year for community members): Action Done (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/59)
==== Onboarding ====
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors/OnboardingChecklist
* See also https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
===== Discussion about Face to Face meetings =====
* budget discussion will be done via video meeting, no f2f meeting needed
* we could meet at FOSS4G or in Athens at the Community Sprint
* decision is postponed for the time being, as not everybody will be in Calgary for sure
===== Bylaws =====
ACTION ALL BOARD MEMBERS please read the byLaws https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/
==== Appointing new Roles ====
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
Background Information about the different roles
https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/
MOT2: Appoint new OSGeo Officers
Board Members:
* Treasurer: Mike
* Secretary: Astrid
* Vice-President: Vicky
* Vice-President: Helena
* Vice-President: Victoria
* Vice-President: Codrina
* President: Angelos
* Chair: Till
* Motion needs 100 % voting and passed on Loomio https://www.loomio.org/d/wf2IraCe/appoint-new-osgeo-officers
* Motion passed on Loomio
==== Seed funds for FOSS4G 2021 ====
* https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2019-December/012488.html
* ACTION Till talk to the Argentinian Team about the seed funding and the procedure of return of seed money and surplus (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/60)
MOT3: Approve seed funding for Argentina 2021 with negotiated % profit returned to OSGeo
* Angelos: +1
* Mike: +1 
* Till: +1
* Astrid: +1
* Vicky: +1
* Helena: +1
* Victoria: +1
* Codrina: +1
* Motion passed during the meeting
* Motion on Loomio https://www.loomio.org/d/ne1vYE8S/seed-funds-for-foss4g-2021-
==== Action on Actions ====
* ACTION: Angelos to add previous actions on the gitea todo (Done)
* https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/
=== Next meetings ===
==== Budget Meeting ====
* Budget meeting 13. January 15 UTC (2 hours Video Meeting) - Board Meeting 2020-01-13
* Angelos will send a reminder to the projects (https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/55)
==== Next regular meeting ====
Next regular Meeting 27. January 16 UTC
* Board Meeting 2020-01-27
== Actions ==
== IRC Log ==
* http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2019-12-30.log
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