Board/Minutes/2025-09

This will be the first public meeting of the new board after the September board election.

Date and time: Thursday 25 September at 13:30 UTC.

Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/dor-2cd-qah-rim
using BigBlueButton.

Acronyms

Participants

Officers and Board ^Historic
Board member biographies ^Historic
Minutes by Dorothea Kazazi.

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.

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Voting for non-officer roles

• Finance Committee chair
• Personnel Committee chair
• Trademark licence subcommittee representative
• Advisory Board liaison
• Open Source Initiative representative
• Deputy Secretary

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Working Group liaisons and back-up laisons

The board aims to have two representatives in each Working Group, responsible for facilitating communications between the board and the working group. The role is diplomatic - liaisons do not have a vote in Working Group decisions. Liaisons cannot chair Working Groups.

Working Group	Main liaison from the board	Back-up liaison from the board
CWG - Communication Working Group
DWG - Data Working Group
EWG - Engineering Working Group
LWG - Licensing Working Group
LCCWG - Local Chapters and Communities Working Group
MWG - Membership Working Group
OWG - Operations Working Group
SotM-WG - State of the Map organising committee

Administrative

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Approval of previous minutes

• 2025-08-28

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Circular Resolutions

• About circular resolutions
• Board conflict of interest policy
• OSMF travel policy

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2025/Res23 Contract signing of OSM Core Software Engineer

The board notes and approves the contract signing with Pablo Brasero Moreno (under the company PabloBM Consulting Limited, registered in England, company number 12200009) as a contractor with the title OpenStreetMap Core Software Engineer. The payment comes from the Sovereign Tech Fund, and the rate has been discussed with the Personal Committee and Core Software Development Facilitator. Details on the contract can be seen on board internal emails.

Approved with 4 votes so far. Voting closes on 24 September. 4 votes in favour: Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Brazil Singh, Laura Mugeha, Craig Allan. 3 did not vote so far: Maurizio Napolitano, Roland Olbricht, Daniela Waltersdorfer.

Circular by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz.

See the blog-post "Apply to be the OpenStreetMap Core Software Engineer".

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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.

• 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 access them, click on the 3 dots on the top right of the black video-window.

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Next meetings

The new day and time of the recurring public board meetings and board chats will be set by the Secretary after the September board meeting.

See the Monthly Board meetings page, where board meetings are listed, to get a subscription link to have future board meetings automatically added to your calendar.

Once set, the meetings will be added to this Framagenda calendar (yellow dots), and the monthly board meetings page.

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