Board/Minutes/2025-03
Preliminary agenda and page for draft minutes.
Date and time: Thursday 27 March 2025 at 13:30 UTC.
Time in your time-zone - Countdown.
Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/dor-2cd-qah-rim
using BigBlueButton.
The topics of the agenda get locked one week before the meeting.
Participants
Officers and Board Historic
Board member biographies Historic
Present
- aBCD
Apologies
- qwert
Absent
- efgh
Guests
Open to all OSM Foundation members. (Become a member of the Foundation, even for free if you are an active OSM contributor)
You are welcome to ask questions or to comment (via voice or on the chat) at the end of the meeting.
- Please mute your microphone when you join, and to preserve bandwidth, refrain from turning on your webcam.
- If you are in a low-bandwidth environment, you may benefit from using BigBlueButton's low-bandwidth settings. To assess them, click on the 3 dots on the top right of the black video-window.
Administrative
Approval of previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
Action item updates
| Public board action items - About | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filter by assignee | Craig | Dani | Guillaume | Héctor | Laura | Maurizio | Roland | Not assigned |
| Filter by label | Example: any label # labels here (non-clickable) | |||||||
Secretary's report
| Background |
|---|
| Topic presented by Dani Waltersdorfer. |
Note to be added.
Treasurer's report
| Previous reports during monthly board meetings and general meetings |
|---|
| See the Treasurer's reports on the finances page. |
| Topic presented by Roland Olbricht. |
The Treasurer was absent as he was giving a talk at FOSSGIS 2025 and sent his apologies.
Heatmap of OSM mapping contributions on user profiles and GDPR
| Background |
|---|
| OSM user profiles (public) which have non-zero contributions in the past ~365 days have recently started to display a heatmap based on the users' OSM mapping contributions during that period. This type of visualisation has been available for a long time at https://hdyc.neis-one.org (a volunteer-provided service, not affiliated with OSMF), once someone logs in with their OSM account.
Prior to implementation, there were discussions on the following openstreetmap-website GitHub issues:
The recent implementation of this feature has received several critical comments related to privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation:
There has been a suggestion on GitHub and follow-up discussion to make the feature opt-in. |
| Topic proposed by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz |
Draft minutes to be added.
Any other business
United Kingdom Online Safety Act
| Background |
|---|
| The UK Online Safety Act 2023 (former Online Harms Bill) is a new set of laws trying to ensure that online platforms "take responsibility for the content they host and protect their users from harm". The OSMF had to do a self-assessment. The deadline was in March.
Related links: The LWG has briefly discussed the topic. |
| Topic proposed by Craig Allan |
Draft minutes to be added.
OSM Core Software Development coordinator - Appointment of contractor
Topic proposed by Craig Allan
Draft minutes to be added.
Moving the OSMF out of the UK and into the EU
Topic proposed by Craig Allan
Draft minutes to be added.
Vector Tiles implementation
Topic proposed by Craig Allan
Draft minutes to be added.
Revisit the FPOSM trademark licence agreement
| Background |
|---|
| OSMF's two-year agreement with FPOSM, allowing them to use the OSMF trademarks, ends on 2025-03-30.
Fédération des Pros d'OSM (FPOSM) is an organisation created by French people professionally active in OSM. On 2023-03-30 the OSMF board voted and granted Fédération des Pros d'OSM (FPOSM) a 2 year trademark licence on the OpenStreetMap name. The trademark agreement between OSMF and FPOSM was sent on 2023-04-28. Since 2023 there is ongoing work by Arnalie Vicario (at the time board member and LCCWG liaison) and the LCCWG on an OSMF affiliation scheme, which it was hoped it would be in place before the agreement ends, so that FPOSM would enter that scheme. Arnalie's board term ended on 2024-10-19 and she continues the communications with FPOSM as an LCCWG member. The LCCWG is in contact with Julien Coupey of FPOSM and Julien attended one of the LCCWG meetings in late 2024. The two-year agreement with FPOSM ends on 2025-03-30. |
| Topic proposed by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz |
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.
|
Draft minutes to be added.
Next meetings
Open board meeting: 24 April 2025 at 13:30 UTC
2025 dates of open board meetings: on this Framagenda calendar (green dots), and below.
- 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
Add future board meetings to your calendar
If you want future board meetings to be automatically added to your calendar, you can subscribe to the following iCalendar link. Instructions on how to do that depend on which calendar software/service you use. The link is provided for your convenience.
Please note that:
- It might not work when Framasoft servers experience problems.
- You might get delayed updates, depending on how often the calendar service from your side syncs/checks for updates.
- Both public and non-public meetings are added to this calendar. The later ones have a note in their description about being non-public.
Mid-month board chat: 10 April 2025 at 13:30 UTC
Not open to observers. About mid-month board chats.
Dates: See this Framagenda calendar (yellow dots), and the board meetings page.
Meeting adjourned 52 minutes after start.