<div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi everyone </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">The OSGeo board met on 28 November 2022, minutes are here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-11-28" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-11-28</a></span></p><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">...and here is a summary:</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We set up motions to accept PgRouting to the OSGeo project incubation process; accept the ETF testing framework as a community project and accept giswater as a community project. These are in loomio here:  </span><a href="https://www.loomio.com/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.loomio.com/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></div><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Raising that the Giswater organisation also requested an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) led to discussion about the scope and purpose of memoranda of understanding with other organisations. This is because requests for MoUs seem to have spiked recently, some for one-off events. We discussed putting these in a separate framework (marketing agreements?), keeping MoUs for longer term strategic partnerships. OSGeo will define a standard template for these agreements.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We discussed the low turnout rate for OSGeo board elections - this e-mail is the first step in acting to help the community understand board processes, and encourage people to get engaged! It is clear that in the past 12 months communication from us as a board has dropped off. We hope we can fix that!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Valmir from the FOSS4G 2023 organising committee had questions about how to collect credit card payments, and how we should interact with a government agency with specific needs about how they can support FOSS4G.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An outstanding travel grant funding request was raised, resulting in discussion about what happens if a committee can’t reach a decision, and an action to motivate the relevant committee to make the decision that has been delegated to that committee. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Because we didn’t make it through the agenda in 1 hr 15 minutes, we will have the next meeting on 12 December at 16:00 UTC. You’re welcome to attend here: </span><a href="https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have questions or comments,  reply to the list here - that way the discussion will be tracked and archived for future reference. Or reach out to any of the directors if things need to be discussed more privately.</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Adam Steer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">on behalf of the OSGeo Board of Directors</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br><br></span></p></div>