Board/Minutes/2021-11

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Date and time: Friday, 26 November 14:00 UTC - Countdown

Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/ror-nt7-6tu
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Administrative

Previous minutes

2021-10

Circular Resolutions

2021/Res39 Approve active contributor membership application 2021101010000216

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Did not pass on 2021-11-02 with 4 not voted: Allan Mustard, Guillaume Rischard, Jean-Marc Liotier, Mikel Maron. 3 votes against: Tobias Knerr, Eugene Alvin Villar (No mapping activity for almost a year and the list of non-mapping contributions are not described clearly. Given that this is a renewal application, I would have opted to give the applicant a chance but the activity, mapping or non-mapping, is too little.), Amanda McCann (No OSM edits in the last ~11 months. No details on other OSM contributions, except a confusing, and unclear reference to “OSMF meetings” which doesn't make sense. They may wish to reapply is they provide more details, or correct their application.)
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2021/Res40 Approve active contributor membership application 2021101210000123

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Did not pass on 2021-11-02 with 3 not voted: Allan Mustard, Guillaume Rischard, Jean-Marc Liotier 2 votes in favour: Mikel Maron, Eugene Alvin Villar (Some sporadic mapping activity over the past year, and given that this is a renewal application and the non-mapping activities are clear enough for me, I will accept this membership application.) 1 vote against: Amanda McCann (Not enough details on their current OSM contributions. The OSM using account shows very few mapping edits lately. No details & links on their other OSM contributions were provided. I'm voting no this application, but I think they should reapply, but this time provinding links & details on their other contributions.) 1 abstained: Tobias Knerr (Some non-mapping activity, but it is not described with sufficient detail to make a clear call.)
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2021/Res41 Define the remaining responsibilities of the FOSS Policy Special Committee

The board would like the FOSS Policy Special Committee to complete the following tasks: Perform another inventory of the OSMF's software landscape in 2022 and compare the outcome with the previous inventory Document lessons learned and recommendations and for future inventory rounds Publish, and present to the board, the results of the inventory and the recommendations Additionally, the committee may choose to offer assistance with any opportunities for migrating to open solutions that present themselves before the completion of the 2022 inventory. It is expected that the committee will wind down afterwards. For future inventory rounds, a special committee or some other body may be convened by the board again (taking into consideration any lessons learned by the current committee).
Voting closes on 2021-11-15.
Circular by Tobias Knerr.

Action item updates

See Board/Action_Items.

Treasurer's report

Previous reports during monthly board meetings

2021 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct
2019 Feb, Jun, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Please note that additional financial-related topics have been discussed during previous board meetings.

Presented by Guillaume Rischard.

Advisory Board - monthly update

Background

The Advisory Board members are separate from the OSMF board of directors - individuals are either nominated by Local Chapters and Gold or higher 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.
(single page displaying all the monthly updates that are linked below)

2021 Jan, Feb,Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct
2020 Jan, Feb, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
2019 Jan, Mar, Jun, Jul, Aug, Oct
2018 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Dec
2017 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May (F2F), Oct

Topic presented by Amanda McCann (Secretary).

Monthly presentation

About this monthly section:
In 2020 the board started hourly discussions with Corporate Member representatives on the Advisory Board and inviting Local Chapter representatives on the Advisory Board to give 10' presentations during public board meetings (this slot). A year later, during the 2021-04 board meeting, delegation of the Local Chapter presentation scheduling was suggested by the Secretary (Rory McCann), who was previously solely responsible for that. Mikel Maron and Eugene Alvin Villar offered to help with organisation.

Presenter not selected yet.

Any other business

Guest comments or questions

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