Board/Minutes/2026-09
Rescheduled. New date: 10 September 2026, at 12:00 UTC - Countdown.
Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/dor-2cd-qah-rim
Participants
Absent
- Brazil Singh (apologies)
Officers and Board Historic
Board member biographies Historic
Minutes by Dorothea Kazazi.
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Administrative
Approval of previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
2026/Res14 Authority to hire Canadian counsel to deal with legal threats over copyright of biking trail in Canada
| Motivation
Having selected a legal firm (Arvay Finlay LLC) and counsel, Julia Riddle, we now need to pay a deposit to secure their services. The amount they will require is approximately CAD 10000, or EUR 6177 at today's rates. I suggest allowing some extra by authorising spending up to the limit of the Medium category, which is EUR 10000. Resolution: This Board resolves to pay up to EUR 10000 to Arvan Finlay LLC to cover legal fees and expenses that arise in the resolution of the [redacted] and [redacted] matter. |
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Approved on 2026-08-12 with 6 votes in favour: Craig Allan, Daniela Waltersdorfer, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Laura Mugeha, Maurizio Napolitano, Roland Olbricht. |
| Circular by Craig Allan. |
2026/Res15 The board approves the application of the Associació Catalana de l'OpenStreetMap to become an OSMF Local Chapter, as recommended by the LCCWG
| The LCCWG1 has completed its review of the Local Chapter application32 from the Associació Catalana de l'OpenStreetMap3 (covering the Catalan Countries region) and recommends approval. The two-week community consultation closed on 16 April 2026 with no objections raised.
Per the Local Chapter process, the board's role at this stage is to vote on the LCCWG recommendation. If approved, the next step is signature of the Local Chapter agreement. Application file: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Catalan_countries |
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Approved on 2026-08-21 with 4 votes in favour: Daniela Waltersdorfer, Laura Mugeha, Maurizio Napolitano, Roland Olbricht. |
| Circular by Laura Mugeha. |
1 Local Chapters and Communities Working Group
2 Local Chapter application for Catalan Countries
3 https://osmcatala.cat/
2026/Res16 The board to approve to cover the costs of Dani Waltersdorfer's travel to State of the Map Latam 2026
| The board to approve to cover the costs of Dani Waltersdorfer's1 travel to State of the Map Latam 2026. |
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Approved on 2026-09-09 with 5 votes in favour: Craig Allan, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Laura Mugeha, Roland Olbricht, Maurizio Napolitano (Considering where the next SotM will be held I think the presence of an OSMF member is very important). |
| Circular by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz . |
1 Director.
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. |
Financial year 2025: Financial accounts for review and approval
| Previous reports during monthly board meetings and general meetings |
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| Michelle Heydon (OSMF bookkeeper) sent to the board the financial reports for the last financial year ending 31st December 2025 for review and approval before submission to the Companies House. |
| Internal board GitLab ticket #1104 (accessible to board members). |
Bank of Ireland account access
Topic proposed by Roland.
European project LLMosaic
Topic proposed by Héctor.
Any other business
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The Treasurer proposes to have a closed session at the end of this meeting.