Board/Minutes/2025-01
Date and time: Thursday 30 January 2025 at 13:30 UTC.
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Administrative
Approval of previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
2024/Res49 Accept 2025 OSMF budget as attached
| The board accept the budget as attached as the budget for 2025. It is understood that the budget has to be adjusted by later board votes during 2025 when Working Groups ask for support or substantial new information comes in. In particular, not all working groups have submitted a budget request yet.
The board has during the public December meeting of today decided to defer the decision to this circular to have something in written form. |
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Unanimously approved on 2024-12-26 with 7 votes in favour: Roland Olbricht, Craig Allan, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Maurizio Napolitano, Laura Mugeha, Daniela Waltersdorfer, Guillaume Rischard. |
| Circular created by Roland Olbricht. |
2025/Res01 Approve active contributor membership application #2025010310000071
| The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis. |
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Approved on 2025-01-13 with 5 votes in favour: Roland Olbricht, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Maurizio Napolitano, Laura Mugeha, Daniela Waltersdorfer. |
| Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group. |
2025/Res02 Approve active contributor membership application #2024121010000154
| The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis. |
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Voting closes on 2025-01-19. |
| Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group. |
2025/Res03 Approve active contributor membership application #2025011210000115
| The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis. |
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Voting closes on 2025-01-19. |
| Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group. |
2025/Res04 Reimburse travel expenses to Karlsruhe Hackweekend February 2025
| The board approves that the Foundation reimburses usual travel expenses for member of the Operations Working Group and of the maintainers of openstreetmap-website to the Karlsruhe Hackweekend in February 2025[1].
The rationale is that after the outage in December 2024 a couple of member of Operations Working Group and openstreetmap-website have expresses intent to meet in person there to sort out a strategy to make openstreetmap.org resilient against this current effective Single Point Of Failure. |
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Voting closes on 2025-01-23. Votes so far (2025-01-16): Unanimously approved with 7 votes in favour: Roland Olbricht, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Laura Mugeha, Guillaume Rischard, Maurizio Napolitano, Daniela Waltersdorfer, Craig Allan (This event is a key conference for engaging with people who work on OSM software - those that already do develop for OSM and very importantly, the future developers we are trying to attract to OSM.). |
| Circular by Roland Olbricht. |
[1] Event page on the OSM wiki.
2025/Res05 Distribution of Meta Sponsorship to regional SotM (SotM Japan), via OSMF
| Here is another circular to support the distribution of Meta Sponsorship to regional SotMs. Details about the event we are voting on are explained below.
State of the Map Japan 2024 - 15 Jan 2025 More details about the application are included in its GitLab issue. Please read the issue and its attached documents carefully before voting. |
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Voting closes on 2025-01-23. |
| Circular by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz. |
[2] Accessible to board members.
Action item updates
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Secretary's report
| Background |
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| Topic presented by Dani Waltersdorfer. |
Treasurer's report
| Previous reports during monthly board meetings and general meetings |
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| See the Treasurer's reports on the finances page. |
| Topic presented by Roland Olbricht. |
Update from SotM Latam 2024
| Background |
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| Dani Waltersdorfer participated in SotM Latam 2024 as a board member with the talk "The OpenStreetMap Foundation and its Board of Directors: What it is, What it does, What it isn't" - video here - and her presence at the Foundation's booth. |
| Suggested by Dani Waltersdorfer. |
Deferred from December 2024 board meeting.
More topics to be added
Any other business
Guest comments or questions
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Next meetings
Open board meeting: 27 February 2025 at 13:30 UTC
2025 dates of open board meetings: on this Framagenda calendar (green dots), and below.
- 27 Feb 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 27 Mar 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 24 Apr 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 29 May 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 26 Jun 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 31 Jul 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 28 Aug 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 25 Sep 2025 at 13:30 UTC
- 23 Oct 2025 at 13:30 UTC
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