Board/Minutes/2019-08

Draft Agenda.

Location: Channel "OSMF Board of Directors (Public)" on Mumble.
Date and time: Thursday, 22 August, 20:00 London time - Countdown.

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Administrative

Previous minutes

• Board/Minutes/2019-07-17

Circular Resolutions

Board_Rules_of_Order#7._Circular_Resolutions

2019/Res16 Allow SotM Africa to use OSMF CiviCRM for their ticket sales, with conditions

SotM Africa requested use of OSMF CiviCRM, to make it easier to manage ticket sales for the conference. Christine (SotM WG Lead) has volunteered to help with OSMF workload for this (configure CiviCRM, debug problems, generate coupon codes, manual sign ups). We would do this if the following conditions are met by SotM Africa SotM Africa comply with trademark policy and submit signed SotM quick license. Anyone from SotM Africa is granted read access to CiviCRM needs to sign an Non Disclosure Agreement. We’d make clear and they’d accept responsibility for VAT issues. They would need to provide an invoice to OSMF prior to bank transfers.

Accepted 2019-07-30 with 6 votes in favour: Tobias Knerr, Paul Norman, Kate Chapman, Joost Schouppe, Heather Leson, Mikel Maron 1 not voted: Frederik Ramm

Previous board discussions: 2019 June, July

2019/Res17 Approve financial hardship fee waiver 2019072910000077

The Board currently decides on membership applications for a fee waiver due to financial need on a case-by-case basis.

Accepted 2019-08-14 with 7 votes in favour: Kate Chapman, Paul Norman, Mikel Maron, Joost Schouppe, Tobias Knerr, Heather Leson, Frederik Ramm

Power of Attorney request from FOSSGIS

A long-term German contributor noticed signs with maps clearly based on OSM and without attribution. In the correspondence between the company that erected the signs, the company that produced the maps and the contributor in Germany, the situation escalated, with the map company threatening the OSM contributor with legal action for libel. At that point FOSSGIS (our Local Chapter in Germany) became involved. FOSSGIS have subsequently asked for power of attorney (PoA) to be granted and have sent a document to be signed by the board. The scope of the document was then narrowed down, after a recommendation from the Licensing Working Group (updated document). It has been relayed to the board that FOSSGIS will pay any costs related to the specific case. Related LWG discussion: 2019-08-08 Related talk-de discussion.

Lead: Frederik

Articles of Association changes for the 2019 Annual General Meeting

Threats and take-over scenarios were discussed during the 2019 Face-to-Face (F2F) meeting and the board had started working on some suggested changes in the Articles of Association (AoA), to be put to vote on the 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AoA changes aim to (amongst others): Give the Membership Working Group (MWG) and the board more time to investigate any unusual signup patterns. Make it less attractive for people to join just because a particular issue is on the AGM agenda. Make it more difficult for an organisation to control the OSMF by having their own representatives elected to board positions. Increase the membership base. Streamline the board terms and term limits. The board had notified the MWG after the F2F about what they had started working on, while nothing had been finalised at that time. The plan is to allow members to vote on these changes individually, i.e. they can reject one and accept the other if they wish. In this meeting there will be either a discussion about the content or a decision on forwarding the suggested changes to MWG for feedback.

Board seats at the next election

The board has drafted an announcement about the seats that will be available at the next election, so that members can start thinking about nominations. The announcement might get published before the meeting.

Lead: Kate

Criteria to become a Local Chapter

The current minimum criteria for becoming a Local Chapter are outlined here. In 2018 it was decided to initiate discussion on the osmf-talk mailing list about refining the criteria. Points of discussion could be: how established must a local organization be to be eligible to become a Local Chapter how can we measure this as objectively as possible, and how to handle applications from organizations that have a broader scope than just OSM. A summary of the recent osmf-talk discussion will be provided.

Lead: Joost

Microgrants update

Providing microgrants was a topic discussed extensively during the 2018 Face-to-Face board meeting, where a plan was developed. You might know similar programs from e.g. OSM-US, HOT or FOSSGIS. As a start and as a first trial we want to make a time-bound program where you can apply for microgrants until a specific date. A consultation document was shared in 2018 with the membership and the Advisory Board members, which contained an outline and top questions. There were also two microgrant-related sessions at the State of the Map 2018 conference (read some discussion points and questions). Work on Microgrants was paused in 2018 and restarted after the 2019 F2F meeting. Currently two of the board members are working on them. The plan is to merge all the documents in a public wiki page and identify points that need to be voted on by the board. The current working document has notes on: The mission statement. The options for committee creation. The eligibility criteria for the applications and examples of applications that would or would not pass. The amount available for the first run. The document has not been finalised yet and the board has not been asked to provide feedback or vote on parts of it. Related board discussions: 2018 Sep, Aug, Jul, Jun, Apr, 2017 Aug, Jul, May. Related osmf-talk discussions: 2019 Aug, 2018 Oct (asking for input) Related board working sessions: 2019 Aug, 2018 Sep, Jul. Related SotM 2018 session: there was a lightning talk, for community feedback

Advisory Board - monthly update

The Advisory Board members are separate from the OSMF board of directors - individuals are either nominated by Corporate Members of the OSMF or invited directly by the OSMF board of directors. The OSMF Board of Directors will publicly minute, in the board meeting minutes, any communication sent to, or received from, the AB members. This monthly section is reserved for this purpose. Overview. AB related updates and board discussions: 2019 Jan, Mar, Jun, Jul 2018 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Dec 2017 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May (F2F), Oct

Next meeting

Meetings take place on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, at 19:00 London time, unless rescheduled.
The next monthly board meeting will be rescheduled due to SotM 2019.

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