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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Allan | 2020-03 | to reach out to FOSS community for expertise/experience in software governance.
#2020-May & Jun: In progress |
S2S 2020 | "Taking stock of governance and identifying areas for improvement" | |
#2020-07 Items from past board members moved to separate table. # Decision that the separate table will be deleted as items overtaken by events. |
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Guillaume/Allan | 2020-03 | to move forward on proposal / scope out fundraising structure.
#2020-05: In progress |
S2S 2020 | Finance | |
Guillaume | 2020-03 | to ping MWG/self-ping about status on membership prerequisites and transparency.
#2020-06: In progress |
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 | Updated | 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. #2020-05: Received access to Google console. Using Email, Drive, Calendar. Asked Google for complete export. #2020-06-25: See "reportage" |
FOSS policy | |
On LCCWG |
#2020-06-25: In Clifford's action item list. Joost to send a reminder. |
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Joost | 2020-06-25 | to consolidate feedback regarding the Argentina Local Chapter application, have chat with Asociación Civil Geolibres (Argentina) and then come back to the | Meeting | Local Chapters | |
Joost | 2020-05-11 | Un-paused | to process the OpenStreetMap United States Local Chapter application,
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Local Chapters | |
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Joost | 2018-12-28 | to process the OpenStreetMap Uganda Local Chapter application.
#2020-May & Jun: No news. |
Local Chapters | ||
Joost | 2019-07-23 | to process the FreeMap Slovakia Local Chapter application.
#2020-05: Almost ready for final review by board and local community/membership |
Local Chapters | ||
Joost | 2019-08-23 | to process the OSGeo Oceania Local Chapter application.
#2020-05: Rory done an extended local consultation. Will probably move to board and local community/membership consultation soon. #2020-06-25: Rory, Mikel and Dorothea offered to help. |
Local Chapters | ||
Joost | 2019-09-19 | On hold | to process the OpenStreetMap RDC Local Chapter application.
#2020-05: They need to do some things first. It's in their backlog. |
Local Chapters | |
Joost | 2020-01-20 | Updated | to process the Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova Local Chapter application.
#2020-05: New process, draft application available on the OSM wiki for community feedback. #2020-06-25: Mikel to help. #2020-07: Dorothea emailed about 2019 financial report. |
Local Chapters | |
Joost (Taken up 2020-02) | 2019-06 |
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LWG | ||
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Mikel | 2020-05-06 | to set-up call of board members with Facebook people.
#2020-05: Suggesting a call not just on attribution but on all sort of topics that came up with Facebook. |
Meeting | Attribution | |
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." | |
Mikel with help of Allan, Joost, Tobias | 2020-03 |
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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. |
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, Tobias and Guillaume | 2020-06-25 | to draft a proposal for rebirth of Engineering Working Group (EWG), to be looked at the next meeting. | Meeting | EWG | |
Paul | 2018-04-19 | to document the evaluation process of software and services used by the OSMF.
#2020-05: Help on this is welcome. |
Meeting | FOSS policy | |
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). | S2S 2020 | "Taking stock of governance and identifying areas for improvement. Section: Enforcement of policies etc" | |
Tobias | 2020-03 | to keep the takeover/AoA change topic moving.
#2020-05: 3 related topics added to the 2020-05 agenda. |
S2S 2020 | "Taking stock of governance and identifying areas for improvement. Section: Enforcement of policies etc" |
Action items from past board members
Name of past board member | Date | Status | Action item and status | Source | Related to |
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2018-12-20 | to draft email to start off discussion on the osmf-talk mailing list about developing guidance for our involvement in politics/activism.
# Was Peter's. Assigned to Heather on 2018-12-20. |
meeting | Activism | ||
2019-05-18 | to write Administrative Assistant's job description.
# Possibly completed. |
F2F 2019 | Admin. Assistant | ||
2018-12-20 | to write to the Data Working Group to see if there's anything further the board can do to support them. | meeting | DWG | ||
2018-02-15 | to follow up with Grant about the technical workaround of having conference announcement banners on osm.org linked to landing pages on the website. | meeting | OWG | ||
2018-01-18 | to update the etiquette and add a reporting plan. | meeting | Communication |