Board/Minutes/2025-07
Preliminary agenda and page for draft minutes.
Date and time: Thursday 31 July 2025 at 13:30 UTC.
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Participants
Officers and Board Historic
Board member biographies Historic
Absent
Guests
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Administrative
Approval of previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
2025/Res20 Acknowledgement of the 2024 Accounts
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The board confirms that it has seen the draft accounts for 2024 as in GitLab issue #841. |
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Unanimously approved on 2025-07-24 with 7 votes in favour: Roland Olbricht, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Daniela Waltersdorfer, Maurizio Napolitano, Laura Mugeha, Craig Allan, Guillaume Rischard (I’m noticing that we have an open invoice for Radar. They made a one-off donation which we offered to recognise with the equivalent of a silver membership. There was no commitment to, or expectation of, a recurring contribution). |
| Circular by Roland Olbricht. |
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Chairperson's report
| Background |
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| Topic presented by Craig Allan. |
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. |
Roland will likely not be present.
AGM2025 and OSMF move to the EU - Proposed resolution for the membership to vote on the next stage of the move to the EU
Topic proposed by Craig Allan. The board will likely vote on the wording of a proposed resolution for the 2025 Annual General Meeting, that will be put forward to the members for voting.
AGM2025 - Process of preparing the Chairperson's report and the Personnel report
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| The 2025 Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 13 September 2025, 16:00 UTC, and the agenda includes reports from the Chairperson, the Treasurer and the Personnel Committee. |
| Topic proposed by Craig Allan |
Potential funding source - FLOSS/fund by Zerodha
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| Mateusz Konieczny (former board member) suggested that OSMF could apply for a FLOSS/fund by Zerodha. The board forwarded the suggestion to the Engineering Working Group (EWG).
Selected sections below from the https://floss.fund/ website: About FLOSS/fund Amount Who can apply Currently, our focus is on supporting existing, widely used, and impactful projects to specifically contribute to their sustainability. Very new projects or projects with minimal usage are not considered for the time being. Evaluation process Currently, our focus is on supporting existing, widely used, and impactful projects to specifically contribute to their sustainability. Very new projects or projects with minimal usage are not considered for the time being. Our internal investment committee evaluates projects based on broad criteria such as value, impact, criticality, and innovation. Once we have a reasonable grasp of the process end-to-end, from evaluation to disbursement of funds, we plan to set up a community voting system and an external investment committee from the FOSS world to help us evaluate and select recipients. What is expected from a project that receives funding How to apply Applications that come through to the FLOSS/fund will be indexed and published on the dir.floss.fund directory / portal, making them publicly discoverable by anyone interested in supporting projects. Related resources Internal board GitLab ticket: https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/board/-/issues/786 |
| Topic proposed by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz |
Any other business
Guest comments or questions
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Closed session
European Space Agency imagery for use in OSM
| Internal board GitLab ticket: https://gitlab.com/osmfoundation/board/-/issues/823 |
| Topic proposed by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz |