Board/Minutes/2020-07
Draft agenda - topics will get locked on 2020-07-20.
Date and time: Thursday, 30th of July 2020 at 17:00 London time - Countdown
Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/ror-nt7-6tu
using BigBlueButton.
Participants
Board members
Guests
Open to all OSMF members.
Guests are welcome to speak at the end of the meeting on the topics that have been discussed.
Not Present
Administrative
Previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
Board_Rules_of_Order#7._Circular_Resolutions
2020/Res33 Adopt update to Board Rules of Order to cover working groups and special committees
| The proposed changes are in version "Version for circular vote" of https://hackmd.io/4GF96W4uSFeG1beH9iMoVQ. Also attached*.
If and when agreed, will follow up with public note inviting feedback and openness to updates, and open up further discussion about additional needs. |
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Accepted on 2020-07-11 with 6 votes in favour: Paul Norman, Guillaume Rischard, Allan Mustard, Joost Schouppe, Tobias Knerr, Mikel Maron. |
* (file type .odt, file size: 21 KB)
2020/Res34 Approve financial hardship fee waiver 2020070410000111
| 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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Did not pass on 2020-07-13 with 3 votes in favour: Tobias Knerr, Joost Schouppe, Allan Mustard (they have mapped 62 days this year, 1,627 changesets as of today). |
Please note that there will be a second voting on this application, to try and reach the participation quota.
2020/Res35 Make progress towards a hiring framework
| Tobias will send out the latest draft of the hiring framework for community consultation. The consultation will be open until the July board meeting. The board will use this document as a preliminary framework for any hiring-related steps until then. |
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Accepted on 2020-07-17 with 6 votes in favour: Paul Norman, Joost Schouppe, Mikel Maron, Rory McCann, Allan Mustard, Tobias Knerr. |
2020/Res36 Accept the new Local Chapters Agreement template for future applications
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Voting formally closes on 2020-07-26. 5 votes in favour so far: Mikel Maron, Tobias Knerr, Guillaume Rischard, Allan Mustard, Rory McCann. |
* Please note that any OSM US specific parts will be substituted.
This will replace the current Local Chapter agreement.
2020/Res37 Approve financial hardship fee waiver 2020070410000111
| 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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Voting closes on 2020-07-28 |
Second voting on this application, as the first one did not reach the participation quota.
Previous action items
See Board/Action_Items.
Action items updates
Monthly Local Chapter presentation - OpenStreetMap France
| OpenStreetMap France is an OSMF Local Chapter since 2017.
About this section: New idea: Invite a LC to speak at each OSMF Board meeting. |
| Rory |
Carried over from the June public board meeting.
Adopting the hiring framework
| The board recently decided to send this hiring framework draft for community consultation (to be open till July 30th 2020) and use the document as a preliminary framework for any hiring-related steps until then.
Any updates to the hiring framework will first appear on this working document. |
| Suggested by Tobias. |
Proposal to hire a senior site reliability engineer
| Proposal to hire a senior site reliability engineer to help the sysadmin team. Keeping core technical infrastructure which the OpenStreetMap project relies on running is one of the key responsibilities outlined in the Foundation’s mission statement. |
| Suggested by Guillaume. |
Funding of projects used in core infrastructure (Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch, iD)
Suggested by Guillaume.
Mostly inactive state of CWG
Carried over from the July mid-month meeting. Suggested by Paul.
Advisory Board split
| The Advisory Board members are separate from the OSMF board of directors - individuals are either representatives of Gold/Platinum Corporate Members of the OSMF, Local Chapter representatives or invited directly by the OSMF board of directors.
Suggestion to split the Advisory Board in at least two separate bodies. |
| Suggested by Mikel. |
Trademark subcommittee
The Trademark licence subcommittee has two members of the Licensing Working Group and one board member who decide on licence requests that are covered by the OSMF Trademark policy, with the understanding that
Heather Leson was the previous board member on the subcommittee, but when her term finished the board did not replace her. A board member needs to volunteer. Paul would, but his term ends next election. |
| Suggested by Paul. |
Community survey before the end of the year
| The previous community survey by the board was on the global and local communities in OpenStreetMap (2019 Aug - blogpost).
A list of surveys by the board or Working Groups is at the OSM wiki. |
| Suggested by Joost. |
Argentina feedback discussion
Asociación Civil Geolibres has applied to become the OSMF Local Chapter for Argentina.
Joost had calls with Geolibres. |
| Suggested by Joost. |
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 of board communications with representatives on the Advisory Board. |
| Joost |
Any other business
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