Board/Minutes/2021-02-S2S

The board had a screen-to-screen meeting on the 6th and 7th of February 2021, from 10:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC.

The meeting was not open to the public.

Dates and time

• Saturday 6th February, 10:00 UTC (time in other timezones) -- countdown
• Sunday 7th February, 10:00 UTC (time in other timezones) -- countdown

Participants

Board members

• Allan Mustard
• Eugene Alvin Villar
• Guillaume Rischard
• Jean-Marc Liotier
• Mikel Maron
• Rory McCann
• Tobias Knerr

Biographies.

Guests

• Allen Gunn (facilitator)
• Dorothea Kazazi (administrative assistant)

Agenda

Day 1

• Taking stock of OSM today
• Report on community survey (results so far)
• Strategic plan - Agree on "plan for the plan"
  • Allan, Guillaume, Jean-Marc
• Decide on our response to the moderation subcommittee report (“Diversity”/feedback from LCCWG/Code of Conduct issues)
  • Eugene, Mikel, Rory, Tobias
• Discuss rebooting the Engineering Working Group
  • Allan, Eugene, Jean-Marc
• Discuss membership prerequisites, steps towards Annual General Meeting (AGM) resolution
  • Guillaume, Mikel, Rory, Tobias
• Addressing lack of gender diversity in OSM community
  • Allan, Eugene, Mikel, Rory
• Takeover protection (including Updating the conflict of interest policy?)
  • Guillaume, Jean-Marc, Tobias

Day 2

• Scoping Exercise (all) (not publicly minuted)
• Do Reality-based assessment of risks and opportunities of collaboration of work with other OSM actors (HOT, companies, local chapters)
  • Mikel, Rory, Tobias
• Encouraging more volunteers to join other working groups
  • Allan, Eugene, Guillaume, Jean-Marc (facilitator)
• Discuss institutionalising budgeting and fund-raising processes (all)
• How do we define “core”, in terms of categories (e.g. software) and what is in each category?
  • Allan, Eugene (facilitator), Jean-Marc, Tobias
• Discuss paid votes, steps towards AGM resolution
  • Guillaume, Mikel, Rory
• Discuss Local community/Chapter support and expansion
  • Allan (facilitator), Eugene, Mikel, Rory
• Decide to what extent management of financial risk should be formalized - and how to implement that
  • Guillaume, Jean-Marc (facilitator), Tobias
• Action items and decisions