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.
Participants
Board members
Guests
Open to all OSMF members.
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Administrative
Previous minutes
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
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Accepted 2019-07-30 with 6 votes in favour: Tobias Knerr, Paul Norman, Kate Chapman, Joost Schouppe, Heather Leson, Mikel Maron |
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. |
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Accepted 2019-08-14 with 7 votes in favour: Kate Chapman, Paul Norman, Mikel Maron, Joost Schouppe, Tobias Knerr, Heather Leson, Frederik Ramm |
Previous action items
Action Item updates
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 |
| 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):
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:
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 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. |
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: |
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.
Meeting end