Board/Action Items
Action items of the OpenStreetMap Foundation board.
The list is sortable and might contain items that did not arise from board meetings. Incomplete.
- New: Action item arose during ~ past month.
- Updated: Action item had an update during past month (mentioned during a board meeting or board chat), other than "in progress".
Name | Date | Status | Action item and updates | Source | Related to |
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Board (was: Amanda) |
2022-07 | to organise a meeting of the directors with the Advisory Board (AB) members. The meeting will be about attribution (2022-08 decision) | board meeting and 2022-08 | Attribution guidelines | |
Board (was: Amanda) |
2022-02-26 and 27 | to remind Advisory Board (AB) members about the attribution guidelines during the next Advisory Board meeting. [Session: Attribution - Agree on an attribution enforcement strategy # 2022-04-28 Amanda stated that she has a conflict of interest. Action item moved to the board. |
2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | Attribution | |
Board (was: Amanda) |
2022-02-26 and 27 | to ask the State of the Map organising committee what they think about the idea of restricting State of the Map presentations for big attribution violators. [Session: Attribution - Agree on an attribution enforcement strategy
# 2022-03-30 Ownership changed, as Amanda self-reported that she has a conflict of interest. |
2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | Attribution | |
Board | 2022-02-26 and 27 | to turn the "must" goals of the goal list into action items at the March board meeting.
# 2022-04-14 Board members to look at the list individually and suggest action items asynchronously. |
2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | ||
Board | 2022-02-26 and 27 | to rework Corporate Membership tiers [Session: Fundraising] | 2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | Corporate Members | |
Board | 2022-02-26 and 27 | to make up a table with (date, board member, local chapter/other interest group/communication channel) where we keep track whether the people on the respective channel have heard of us or not. [Session: Board communication] | 2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | Board communication | |
Board (was: Amanda - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2022-02-26 and 27 | might work on requiring board members to stand early for board elections. [Session: Board member candidates mentoring | 2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | ||
Board | 2021-12-11 | to choose a new board member with legal responsibility and in charge of EU relations for the EU transparency register. | Action item after 2021 board election | EU transparency register | |
Board (was: Jean-Marc and Amanda - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2021-10-15 (board chat) | On-hold | to draft a proposal for a second microgrants round, including parameters (amount of money, source of funds, and selected recommendations from the final report (.odt, 29 KB) by the microgrants committee) to be voted during the October board meeting.
# Note: Previous microgrants framework |
Mid-month board chat | Microgrants |
Board (was: Jean-Marc, with Eugene's support - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2022-02-26 and 27 | to write up a proposal for the minimum local chapter criteria before the March 24 board meeting. [Session: Local Chapter minimum criteria (including formalisation/clarification on commercial activities)]
# 2022-03-24 Jean-Marc has written a draft. Suggestion to incorporate information from the draft local chapter handbook in the process of approving local chapters and the work related to minimum local chapter criteria.
Draft underway - not ready yet. Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) will be consulted.
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2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | Local Chapters | |
Board | 2021-04 | to make sure to investigate the issue of requiring voters to be "free to vote", and to consider if there should be a change to the Articles of Association, as instructed by the membership (2020 General Meeting resolution - vote 4). # 2021-07 The board appointed Andy Allan and Michael Collinson to the special committee on takeover protection. |
Board meeting | Takeover protection | |
Board (was: Mikel with help of Amanda and Allan. Change of ownership on 2021-11-26). |
2020-10 | On-hold | to revitalise the Diversity and Inclusion Special Committee. # 2021-10-29 decision to put this item on hold. |
S2S 2020 | Wrap-up session |
Board (was: Jean-Marc - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2021-09 | to seek feedback from the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) regarding formalisation/clarification on commercial activities of Local Chapters (LCs) (what is tolerated/expected/not welcome) and board expectations. Some issues already discussed in the working group. | Board meeting | Local Chapters | |
New and done | |||||
Guillaume (was: Amanda and Guillaume - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2020-03 | HOT trademark agreement # 2021-08 In progress |
HOT trademark agreement | ||
Guillaume | 2022-08-25 | to respond to the community member's email regarding request for license enforcement. | Board meeting | Attribution | |
Guillaume | 2022-06-30 | to ask the Licensing Working Group (LWG) for potential legal issues on the API creation during their next LWG meeting. | Board meeting | OSM account creation API | |
Guillaume | 2022-04-14 (board chat) | to set up online meetings with Roland about accounts' access. | Mid-month board chat | Finances | |
Guillaume | 2022-02-26 and 27 | to bring the attribution topic up at the introductory meeting with Angelina Calderon, new Facebook Advisory Board representative [next week]. [Session: Attribution - Agree on an attribution enforcement strategy | 2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | Attribution | |
Guillaume and Mikel | 2021-11-26 | to come up with an outline of a plan regarding the Fundraising and Budget committee. | Board meeting | Finances | |
Guillaume | 2021-10-29 | to suggest to the Microgrants committee to have microgrants throughout the year instead of doing rounds. | Board meeting | Microgrants | |
Guillaume | 2021-05 | to ask our pro-bono lawyer for recommendations of people specialising in mergers and acquisitions. | Board meeting | Take-over protection | |
Guillaume (was: Guillaume with Amanda - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2020-10 | to work on writing the goals of a "supporting" membership to send to OSMF pro-bono lawyer for feedback.
# 2021-10-29 Lawyer is sick. |
screen-to-screen 2020-10 | Articles of association | |
Guillaume (was: Guillaume with Jean-Marc - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2020-08-27 and restated on 2021-11-12 | to have a call with a relocation lawyer and come back to the board with a proposal / circular resolution. Will also ask if it is possible to transfer the Contributor terms. | Board meeting and board chat | OSMF relocation | |
Guillaume | 2020-08-27 | to check on what a move to the EU would mean for contributor terms. | Board meeting | OSMF relocation | |
Guillaume (was: Tobias with Guillaume - updated after 2022 Annual General Meeting) |
2022-06-30 | to communicate with Microsoft that the board has received the proposal and is checking with Working Groups (WGs).
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Board meeting | OSM account creation API | |
Mateusz | 2022-12-10 (Annual General Meeting) | to provide his biography for the OSMF website. | via email | Directors | |
New and done | |||||
Roland | 2023-01-12 (board chat) | to create a 2023 budget, after talking with Michelle Heydon (OSMF accountant) regarding the spreadsheet with the preliminary budget she has. | Board chat | Finances | |
Roland (was: Guillaume - change of ownership 2022-08-25) |
2022-04-14 (board chat) | to inform Triodos bank about the new Treasurer. | Mid-month board chat | Finances | |
Roland | 2022-07 | On hold | to register for VAT for the State of the Map |
board meeting | State of the Map |
Roland | 2022-04-28 | to set up a regular meeting with Guillaume Rischard (ex-Treasurer) and Michelle Heydon (accountant). | Board meeting | Finances | |
Roland | 2022-02-26 and 27 | to clean the goal list from the 2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting and share it at the next board meeting. | 2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting | ||
Roland | 2022-02-26 and 27 | to make inventory of the existing accounts and survey the sysadmins who have access. [Session: Mitigating bus factors] | 2022-02 screen-to-screen meeting |