Board/Minutes/2026-02
Date and time: Thursday 26 February at 13:00 UTC - Countdown.
Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/dor-2cd-qah-rim
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Officers and Board Historic
Board member biographies Historic
Minutes by Dorothea Kazazi.
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Administrative
Approval of previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
2026/Res02 Contract signing for GPS traces revamp
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The board notes and approves the contract signing with Cloud for Geo S.A.C. (registered in Peru, with signatory being Fermin Yupanqui Mendoza as General Manager) as a contractor for revamping the GPS traces function of OpenStreetMap. Rubén López Mendoza will be the developer to undertake the work from the contractor's side. The payment comes from the Sovereign Tech Fund, and the rate has been discussed with the Personnel Committee and Core Software Development Facilitator. Details on the contract can be seen on board internal emails, and on issues board#974 and stf#3. |
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Voting closes on 2026-02-26. |
| Circular by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz. |
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. |
2026 board face-to-face meeting update
| Background |
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| The board plans to have a face-to-face meeting in 2026. |
| Topic proposed by Dani. Internal board GitLab ticket #932 (accessible to board members). |
French cadastre changes and release of code updates for "OSM components" on GitHub
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| The head of digital projects for the French cadastre map, from Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (DGFIP) (Directorate-General of Public Finances, contacted the board on 2025-12-15. They are using OSM-related components, such as OSM API 0.6, OSM Datamodel, and tools like Overpass, Osmium, Osmosis and Osm2pgsql, for their own project. They plan to create enhancements for some of the components, and to release the code on GitHub in 2026. The target licence is still under evaluation.
Request for
Feedback from the LWG
Dorothea found out that DGFIP had made a 10-40M call for bids for "Provision of assistance services related to geoinformatics, innovative land, PCI-NG and other services related to geomatics and GIS of the DGFIP". Previous board discussion: 2025-12: Any other business - French cadastre changes and release of code updates for "OSM components" on GitHub. The December 2025 decision seemed to be: This topic needs to be discussed offline, as it is a complex issue. Héctor to follow up. DGFIP gave a presentation to the Engineering Working Group during their 2026-01-23 meeting, which was also attended by Héctor and Roland. The name "OpenCollabMap" was used during the presentation. |
| Topic proposed by Héctor. Internal board GitLab ticket #943 (accessible to board members). |
Creation of OSMF Coinbase account for BTC donations
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Previously, Grant Slater (Senior Site Reliability Engineer), would change the BTC donated to OSMF to EUR and transfer them to the OSMF bank account. However, there are monthly limits on Grant's account. Additionally, there is a need for Grant to declare the Bitcoin as personal income for tax purposes with possible tax implications for him. Moreover, Grant's job does not include any financial responsibility. The proposal for an OSMF Coinbase account was a direct request from Grant after the 2025-12-29 donation of 2 BTC. Héctor (Board) looked into the issue and found out that Coinbase Business accounts are only available for the United States and Singapore. He also researched and compiled the following table on the potential alternatives swapin.com and monetum.com, available for European organisations.
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| Topic proposed by Héctor. Internal board GitLab ticket #965 (accessible to board members). |
Potential statement/policy for OSMF's participation with other parties in proposals for EU-funded projects
Topic proposed by Héctor. Internal board GitLab ticket #918 (accessible to board members).
Potential related subtopics below.
Draft blog post: OSMF approach to EU-funded project collaborations
Internal board GitLab ticket #971
Potential OSMF participation in Horizon Europe CSA (GeosTeX)
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| The company Sploro is asking to the OSMF to participate in a Horizon Europe Coordination and Support Action (HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-06, working title GeosTeX).
Project context: The project aims to set up a European incubator and support hub for open-source geospatial technologies, based on a catalogue of challenges proposed by open-source actors, with third parties funded to develop solutions. Maurizio had a discussion with the proposal coordinator, where he explained the OSMF’s mission, and proposed these tasks/contributions:
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| Internal board GitLab ticket #972 |
European Institute of Technology (EIT) communications
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| Maurizio received another request for collaboration on a EU-funded project. The request was from the European Institute of Technology, an initiative of the European Commission. |
| Internal board GitLab ticket #917 |
2026 Sovereign Tech Agency call for tenders (STF)
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| Héctor enquired whether OSMF should apply to the new call for tenders from the Sovereign Tech Agency. Deadline: 2026-03-16 10:00 a.m. CET.
In 2024 OSMF had been selected by the Sovereign Tech Agency for a [https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/openstreetmap service agreement in the amount of 384,000 EUR over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software. Two OSMF positions are currently funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency: OSM core software development facilitator and OSM core software engineer. There will also be a third position. See the circular 2026/Res02 "Contract signing for GPS traces revamp" above. |
| Internal board GitLab ticket #976 |
Request for comments for GERS as an OGC Community Standard
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| The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting public comment on the justification for the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) Framework and Model as an OGC Community Standard.
See the related discussion on community.osm.org: "The last hurrah for OSM". |
| Topic proposed by Héctor. |
Any other business
Guest comments or questions
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