Board/Action Items
The list is sortable and contains items that did not arise from board meetings. Incomplete.
- Items in bold are new (arose during ~ past month).
- Status column - "updated": Item had an update during past month (board meeting or board chat), other than "in progress".
| Name | Date | Status | Action item and status | Source | Related to |
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| Board | 2022-01 | future agenda item | evaluate Software Dispute Resolution Panel and appoint or reappoint members with expiring terms | Board | Board Minutes 29 January 2021, OSM wiki: Software dispute resolution panel |
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| Done | # Done but not heard back. |
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| Allan | 2020-10 | Updated | # 2020-Dec: Draft circulated. |
S2S 2020 | OSMF fundraising and Wrap-up session |
| Allan | 2020-03 | to reach out to FOSS community for expertise/experience in software governance.
#2020-May,Jun,Jul: In progress. One good conversation. # 2020-Dec: Continues. |
S2S 2020 | "Taking stock of governance and identifying areas for improvement" | |
| Guillaume with Paul | 2020-10 | to spend a maximum of three hours talking to lawyers. | S2S 2020 | Brexit | |
| Guillaume | 2020-10 | to send an updated version of the budget spreadsheet/specific tabs to Dorothea for publishing. | S2S 2020 | 2021 budget | |
| Guillaume | 2020-10 | to ask Working Groups (WGs) if they want to update their [budget] numbers. | S2S 2020 | 2021 budget | |
| Guillaume with help of Allan/Gunner (screen-to-screen facilitator)/Communication Working Group (CWG) | 2020-10 | to announce ahead of time that we're going to look at a budget. | S2S 2020 | 2021 budget | |
| Guillaume with Michelle (OSMF accountant) | 2020-10 | to consider breaking up State of the Map [numbers] by year. | S2S 2020 | 2021 budget | |
| Guillaume with Rory | 2020-10 | to work on writing the goals of a "supporting" membership to send to OSMF pro-bono lawyer for feedback. # Lawyer is sick. |
S2S 2020 | Articles of association | |
| Guillaume with Mikel | 2020-10 | Updated | to work on plan on how the money will be collected. # 2020-11 In progress. # 2020-12 Done but decision to keep open for administration. |
S2S 2020 | OSMF fundraising |
| Guillaume/Allan | 2020-03 | to move forward on proposal / scope out fundraising structure.
#2020-05 In progress.
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S2S 2020 | Finance | |
| Guillaume | 2020-08-27 | to have a call with a relocation lawyer and come back to the board with a proposal / circular resolution. | Meeting | ||
| Guillaume | 2020-08-27 | to check on what a move to the EU would mean for contributor terms. | Meeting | ||
| Guillaume | 2020-03 | to ping MWG/self-ping about status on membership prerequisites and transparency.
#2020 Jun, Jul: In progress. #2020-Aug: In touch with John Goldberg (CiviCRM consultant). |
S2S 2020 | "Taking stock of governance and identifying areas for improvement. Section: Enforcement of policies etc" | |
| Guillaume (Taken up 2020-02. Previously: Board) | 2019-07 | to decide on next steps regarding an email service for OSMF.
#2020-02: An added difficulty is the documents hosted by Working Groups on Google drive. |
FOSS policy | ||
| Done | # Kathleen Lu is directly in contact with OSMF Japan. |
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| Joost | 2020-08-27 | to draft a proposal regarding further reform of the membership. | Meeting | Membership | |
| Done |
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#2020-12 To be added on the January agenda |
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| Mikel | 2020-10 | to write draft about Operations Working Group (OWG) and work with Paul. #2020-10 Drafted questions, Ian Dees is helping with Fastly (commercial content delivery network that OSMF has recently started to use). Will draft blogpost, share with Paul and then talk to CWG. #2020-11 Asked to join CWG to work on it. |
S2S 2020 | Improving member and volunteer recruiting | |
| Mikel | 2020-10 | to extend "donate time" project to companies. | S2S 2020 | Improving member and volunteer recruiting | |
| Mikel with help of Rory and Allan | 2020-10 | to revitalise the Diversity and Inclusion Special Committee. | S2S 2020 | Wrap-up session | |
| Mikel | 2020-03 | to share key points of discussion on trust and safety for community and get feedback from Diversity and Inclusion Special Committee and ask for next steps and recommendations. | S2S 2020 | "Taking stock of governance and identifying areas for improvement. Section: Trust and safety for community."
#2020-07: No action to report. | |
| Mikel with help of Allan, Joost, Tobias | 2020-03 |
# 2020-09 Draft Personnel Committee charter. |
S2S 2020 | "Hiring" | |
| Mikel (Taken up 2020-02) |
2019-05-18 | to complete and share job description for someone to prepare a pull request for acceptance against the current “openstreetmap-website” code that will implement these changes (related blogpost).
#2020-02: Mikel plans to circulate to people in Ruby community. #2020-05: Talked with one recommended developer with Rail experience, not familiar with OSM. #2020-06-25: Will start fresh. #2020-07-30: Guillaume spoke with someone who was vaguely interested. |
F2F 2019 | GDPR | |
| Mikel/Joost | 2019-05-18 | to document working group practices, draft WG “rules of order".
#2020-02: Mikel has some suggestions for draft board Rules of Order changes that he will circulate when ready. |
F2F 2019 | WGs | |
| Paul with Guillaume | 2020-10 | to spend a maximum of three hours talking to lawyers. | S2S 2020 | Legal team and Brexit implications - resolve how to respond | |
| Paul | 2020-10 | to collaborate with Tobias on emailing Licensing Working Group (LWG) regarding the tile licence attribution and rewrite specific part of copyright statement. | S2S 2020 | Make progress on attribution guidelines and enforcement | |
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| Rory | 2020-10 | to ask OSMF pro-bono lawyer if we can waive fee for membership without needing an Articles of Association (AoA) change.
# 2020-10 lawyer sick. |
S2S 2020 | Articles of association: Evaluate membership pre-requisites, identify any needed changes/updates | |
| Rory | 2020-10 | to ask OSMF pro-bono lawyer for wording for some of these changes. # 2020-10 lawyer sick. |
S2S 2020 | Articles of association: Evaluate membership pre-requisites, identify any needed changes/updates | |
| Rory | 2020-03 | to announce and then do gentle, friendly, first warnings, formal reminders noting exceptions and suggesting alternative actions (Ideally include “escalation path” guidelines and learn from Guillaume’s efforts).
#2020-08: Reached to DWG. |
S2S 2020 | "Taking stock of governance and identifying areas for improvement. Section: Enforcement of policies etc" | |
| Tobias with Paul | 2020-10 | Updated | to collaborate on emailing Licensing Working Group (LWG) regarding the tile licence attribution and rewrite specific part of copyright statement
# 2020-12 Draft to be shared with the board before the board election. |
S2S 2020 | Attribution guidelines |