Board/Minutes/2019-04-24
Location: Channel "OSMF Board of Directors (Public)" on Mumble.
Date and time: Wednesday, 24th of April at 19:00 London time.
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Participants
Board members
- Frederik Ramm
- Heather Leson
- Joost Schouppe (chaired the meeting)
- Mikel Maron
- Paul Norman (joined ~ 8 minutes after start)
- Tobias Knerr
Guests
- 7 guests
Open to all OSMF members.
Guests are welcome to speak at the end of the meeting on the topics that have been discussed. Please note that text messages sent on Mumble chat may not be seen by people who join using mobile apps.
Not Present
- Kate Chapman (Apologies)
Administrative
Previous minutes
- Board/Minutes/2019-03-20 Accepted
Circular Resolutions
Previous action items
The list is sortable and collapsible. New items or updates are in blue.
| Name | Date | Action item and status |
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# To be removed. | ||
# Update:
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# To be removed. | ||
| Frederik | 2019-02-20 | to create a circular about accepting the proposed budget. Once accepted, the budget will be put up on the OSMF website. |
| Frederik | 2018-12-20 | to remind the GDPR tech. implementation call on mailing lists after the 7th of January. # No takers in OSM. Frederik has started to slowly work on the changes - which require other changes to be implemented first, so it might be difficult for outsider to give estimate of cost required. Frederik and Heather to schedule a call and invite other interested board members. |
| Frederik | 2018-09-20 | to update Roland Olbricht, maintainer of the Overpass API (downstream data controller). |
# Task of checking whether the decisions made in the 2016 face-to-face meeting regarding transparency (e.g. board meetings open to guests) would require amendments in documents (e.g. board rules of order). It is more an exercise of keeping things in order, rather than practical use. To be removed. | ||
| Heather | 2018-12-20 | to draft email to start off discussion on the osmf-talk mailing list about developing guidance for our involvement in politics/activism. # Was Peter's. Assigned to Heather on 2018-12-20. |
| Joost | 2018-06-21 | to initiate discussion on the osmf-talk mailing list about refining the Local Chapter criteria. # Suggested period for discussion: two weeks. Was Martijn's. Assigned to Heather on 2018-12-20. Transferred to Joost on 2019-04-24 |
# Done. | ||
| Kate | 2019-03-20< | to follow-up with Gunner (facilitator), regarding the face-to-face board meeting. |
| Kate | 2018-12-20 | to write to the Data Working Group to see if there's anything further the board can do to support them. |
| Kate | 2018-02-15 | to follow up with Grant about the technical workaround of having conference announcement banners on osm.org linked to landing pages on the website. |
| Kate | 2018-01-18 | to update the etiquette and add a reporting plan. |
| Mikel/Paul | 2018-03-15 | to look at the ten most active mailing lists and see if people listed as admins are active in the moderator role, what is in place, and how they manage the lists. # 2018-05-24 Mikel drafted email and both agreed on some modifications. |
# To be removed. | ||
| Paul | 2019-04-24 | to contact Gunner to get the community survey about the 2019 face-to-face board meeting topics set-up. |
| Paul | 2018-04-19 | to document the evaluation process of software and services used by the OSMF. Related to our FOSS policy. |
| Paul | 2016-10-28 | to create a page on the wiki, listing software products which are used by OSMF and are closed-source and/or are externally hosted. # Was Peter's |
Agenda building and action items
| The board is migrating its issue tracker to GitLab. Discussion on building the agenda and on the "action items" list. Some suggestions regarding the later were to start setting deadlines, mark off some of the open items and the new members to take up some of the tasks. |
| Lead: Joost |
- Gitlab migration should be ready soon. Waiting some people to sign-up.
- Action items updated above.
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: |
No updates.
Any other business
Update from facilitator of the upcoming face-to-face board meeting
Gunner (facilitator) aims to have a draft agenda by the end of next week.
Possible community survey
Suggestion: create survey to take input from broader community about priority topics for the retreat. Each person can be asked to:
- list their top 1-2 issues that the board should prioritise - Responses to be published for transparency.
- select whether they want their response to be public or not.
- indicate whether they are an OSMF member or not (optional).
- provide their OSM usernames (optional).
Gunner to take into account the responses into the agenda building process.
Survey format (compared to question posted on mailing list):
- increased accessibility - surveys reach people who do not use mailing lists.
- discourages debates and discussions.
- may provide information regarding OSMF membership.
Action Item: Paul to contact Gunner to get the community survey set-up.
Board - Working Groups meeting at State of the Map
Proposal to have a not-too-long meeting between the board and the Working Groups during State of the Map 2019.
Suggestion: offer remote joining.
New insurance
- Cost similar to old one.
- Our new insurance might also cover members of Working Groups.
Guest comments or questions
Guests are welcome to speak at the end of the meeting on the topics that have been discussed. Please note that text messages sent on Mumble chat may not be seen by people who join using mobile apps.
No comments or questions.
Closed portion of meeting
Next steps on GlobalLogic
| Reason for closed portion: We need to talk about the practicalities of cancelling the memberships. For people who do not have all the details, our words about this can be confusing and lead to the wrong conclusions. Therefore we would like to be able to discuss this freely without worrying about how this might be misunderstood. In fact, a conclusion of this conversation might be that we need to ask GL to issue a detailed statement.
Please note that the Membership Working Group was invited to participate in part of the closed portion. Status: The board has accepted (in February) GL's offer to withdraw the memberships. Mechanics of removing memberships will be worked out with the MWG. The board can facilitate, if needed. A GL representative has contacted the board about part of the process, a potential next step and the contact information of a GL manager. |
Discussion of further actions regarding the GL sign-up. Next step is obtaining a list of individuals from GL for unsubscribing.
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 on the 15th of May, at 19:00 London time, unless rescheduled.
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