Board/Minutes/2024-06
Draft minutes to be added.
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Date and time: Thursday 27 June, 13:30 UTC - Countdown
Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/dor-2cd-qah-rim
using BigBlueButton.
Participants
- Arnalie Vicario
- Craig Allan
- Guillaume Rischard
- Roland Olbricht (joined 7' after start)
- Sarah Hoffmann
Absent
- Daniela Waltersdorfer
- Mateusz Konieczny
Officers and board
Biographies
Guests
- 14 guests, including Hopeful Bafamodei (Presenter)
Open to all OSM Foundation members. (Become a member of the Foundation, even for free if you are an active OSM contributor)
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Administrative
Approval of previous minutes
- 2024-05-30 Approved
Circular Resolutions
Action item updates
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Secretary's report
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| Topic presented by Craig Allan. |
As usual the Secretary’s report is drawn from the GitLab issues and email correspondence of the Board. Not everything is here, but I think these topics are the most interesting
Mid-month meeting 13 June 2024
The team went through the draft tasks from the Face to Face meeting for each person to see what should be published as member tasks. We discussed staff management roles and responsibilities and delegated Craig and Roland to share the discussion with Guillaume - who was not able to attend this meeting. We reviewed the move to the EU and supported moving forward on it as an urgent matter. We noted that Paul Norman has posted about progress on vector tiles to the community General Talk.
#640 Distributed Denial of Service Attack
On 13 June we had another big Denial of Service attack on our servers which lasted a few hours. We did not seem to receive a ransom note this time. Our systems team deployed their defensive tools which greatly limited the impact of the attack. In the medium term we may need to review and improve our defenses.
#643 Vandalism
Our headline event of this month has to be the massive data vandalism attacks that we suffered. It seems that one individual was vandalising the map, but on a huge scale. The account was blocked and recovery operations began. It soon became clear that the recovery is more difficult if volunteer mappers assist by layering new corrective editing on top of the vandalism. Ideally the vandalism should be notified to OPS and all vandal edits should be rolled back in one operation. We published a blog post in praise of the Data Working Group for dealing with the problem.
#641 Vandalism Follow up
We were able to track down the vandal and our team phoned him at home, in his home language, to ask him to stop messing with the map.
#633 Big Blue Button
These Board meetings use the free and open-source video conferencing software Big Blue Button. Local Chapters and Working Groups also use on the system. We hit a problem with exceeding the storage limits of the account. It turned out that someone was giving private tuition with the system and was recording all the sessions. If you use Big Blue Button for OSM purposes, please remember to download your recordings.
#637 Template Letter for new Corporate Donors
A new corporate donor just wrote to us and asked to join. We really appreciate that they did that and we decided to write and thank them on behalf of the whole Board. The same would apply to all new corporate donors so we spent a bit of time putting together a nice template for a thank you letter which we will use in future.
Two Conferences
Board member Sarah recently joined the 3rd annual UNMaps conference in Valencia, Spain to present about the OpenStreetMap project and participate in a panel discussion about crowd -sourced geodata. Sarah notes in her blog post that OpenStreetMap is well known and is used on a daily basis within the UN. Our Treasurer, Roland, attended a conference of the Traveller Information Services Association. They are focused on providing traffic and traveller information services in the EU. They are under some pressure to produce a European system and were very interested in layering their information onto OSM road and rail networks.
#634 South Australia Director of Land and Built Environment
We were offered a lot of governmental spatial data in South Australia, by the director of the department that created much of it. These gifts are complex because we can’t just add in new data to the map without resolving all the conflicts with the existing data. I haven’t heard yet how it is going, but he may be disappointed by our lack of enthusiasm and the complicated process.
SotM EU
We’re preparing our table and presentations for Sotm EU. The board will be represented by board member Mateusz, who lives in Poland, and our administrator Dorothea.
SotM 2024 Nairobi
The organisation of the conference is proceeding well. I hope we will get a lot of people there, especially people from Africa who we haven’t seen before. We’ve just learned that the Board will not be getting free tickets for the conference. We’re going to have to pay! Another proof that OSM Working Groups are assertively independent.
2024 Elections
I want to remind everyone that the Board elections are coming up in October. We’re starting the work already, setting up the Wiki and organising communications material.
Treasurer's report
| Previous reports during monthly board meetings and general meetings |
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| See Treasurer's reports on the finances page. |
| Topic presented by Roland Olbricht. |
Membership campaign update
| Background |
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| See the blog-post by Arnalie Vicario: Help us grow and diversify the OSMF membership worldwide. |
| Carried-over from May meeting. Topic suggested by Arnalie Vicario. |
Update: put on-hold after request by Arnalie.
2024 Annual General Meeting and election to board
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The next Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the OpenStreetMap Foundation will take place online on Saturday 19 October 2024, 16:00 UTC (countdown). This is also the time when voting for the board election will close. Voting will open exactly one week before the General Meeting. This election will have four seats available (of Arnalie Vicario, Craig Allan, Mateusz Konieczny and Sarah Hoffmann, whose board terms are ending). The terms of Dani Waltersdorfer, Guillaume Rischard and Roland Olbricht will continue. There are seven seats on the foundation board. The board has asked Brian Sperlongano to facilitate the questioning process of the board candidates and he has accepted. Self-nominations will be open from 28 July to 13 August 2024, 23:59 UTC. |
| Topic suggested by Mateusz Konieczny. |
Next step for OSMF regarding vandalism
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| Recently there were some cases of vandalism on OSM, including changes of street names and movement of nodes of streets across the globe. The Data Working Group volunteers have cleaned them, with the help of community members.
If you have spotted vandalism, follow the instructions in: |
| Topic suggested by Mateusz Konieczny. |
Presentation: Delighted Women Development Initiative by Hopeful Bafamodei
| Previous presentations and about this section |
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| See Monthly_Board_Meetings/Presentations. |
10 minute presentation by Hopeful Bafamodei on the "Delighted Women Development Initiative" and the OSM community in Nigeria. 5 minutes questions and comments.
Any other business
Request by MWG for budget
Draft minutes to be added.
Act as a platform to process temporary road closures, see issue 648
Draft minutes to be added.
Reply to the DWG
Draft minutes to be added.
TISA meeting
Draft minutes to be added.
Guest comments or questions
| Open to all OSM Foundation members (Become a member of the Foundation). You are welcome to ask questions or to comment (via voice or on the chat) at the end of the meeting.
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Next meetings
All Board meetings for 2024 have been planned. See the Monthly Board meetings page to find out where board meetings are announced and for a subscription link to have future board meetings automatically added to your calendar.
Open board meeting: 25 July 2024
Open board meetings take place online monthly: currently on the last Thursday of every month.
Dates: See this Framagenda calendar (green dots), and the monthly board meetings page. The dates of public board meetings are also added to https://osmcal.org/.
Next public meeting: 25 July 2024 at 13:30 UTC.
Mid-month board chat
Next mid-month board chat: 4 July at 13:30 UTC.
Mid-month board chats are informal and are not open to observers.
Dates: See this Framagenda calendar (yellow dots), and the monthly board meetings page.