Board/Minutes/2025-12
Date and time: Thursday 18 December at 13:00 UTC - Countdown.
Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/dor-2cd-qah-rim
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Participants
Officers and Board Historic
Board member biographies Historic
Minutes by Dorothea Kazazi.
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Administrative
Approval of previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
2025/Res43 The Board to approve OWG's purchase of a new server in the USA
| It is within the Operations Working Group budget. However, as the Ops meetings are not formal, the buying needs our permission as of https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Budgets_and_Procurement_Policy.
Context and invoice can be found at #8271 |
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Approved on 2025-11-39 with 4 votes in favour, so far: Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Maurizio Napolitano, Brazil Singh, Laura Mugeha. 'Voting closes on 2025-12-05. |
| Circular by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz (board, OWG liaison). |
Note:
1 GitLab board ticket #827 (not public)
2025/Res44 Approve active contributor membership application #2025112210000168
| 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 2025-12-12. |
| Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group. |
Chairperson's report
| Topic presented by Craig Allan. |
Secretary's report
| 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. |
Bank of Ireland account
Topic proposed by Roland.
2026 budget and 2026 OWG budget
Topic proposed by Héctor.
2025 fundraising campaign
Topic proposed by Héctor.
Collaboration with MapAI PhD school
Topic proposed by Héctor.
stateofthemap.in domain
Topic proposed by Héctor.
Any other business
Guest comments or questions
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