<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for your service Michele!<br></div><div><br></div>The issue of trademarks is interesting; presently our incubation process does not require participating projects to transfer any existing trademarks to OSGeo.<div>Other foundations (eclipse/apache) make this a requirement of participation; part of setting up a level playing field for everyone participating.</div><div><br></div><div>I assume from the meeting notes that the board was discussing how to support project's in obtaining a trademark for their own name / logo / brand.</div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 3:15 AM Adam Steer via Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi OSGeo people, friends, neighbors<br>
<br>
The OSGeo board of directors met on 12 December 2022, making an<br>
out-of-schedule meeting to catch up on our agenda. Minutes are here:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-12-12" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-12-12</a><br>
<br>
This was the last meeting as a director for Michele Tobias - please<br>
join us in thanking Michele for her wisdom and insight for the past<br>
two years (insert applause and cheering here). And we look forward to<br>
her ongoing engagement in the OSGeo community!<br>
<br>
To the meeting itself - almost half of the allocated hour was taken up<br>
in discussion about trademarks. As an outcome, we are generating some<br>
guidelines for projects about the process, and how to get support from<br>
OSGeo if it is something they want to do. We also discussed trademarks<br>
for OSGeo and FOSS4G, those are ongoing - needing careful thought and<br>
input from the community.<br>
<br>
Codrina has developed a template for organisations wishing to form an<br>
MoU with OSGeo. This will be placed on the OSGeo wiki, after which the<br>
board will make a motion to formally adopt it. Related to this, we are<br>
revising our MoU with UCGIS [1], which will be reformatted into the<br>
new MoU template. The GISwater organisation [2] has also requested an<br>
MoU, however we felt that as GISwater is now an OSGeo community<br>
project [3], a separate MoU is not needed.<br>
<br>
The board ratified the conference committee’s decision to fund the<br>
2022 OSGeo Oceania travel grant program, after a request from the<br>
committee chair to do so [4]. This has been paid already.<br>
<br>
The final discussion in the allotted time was about reviving or<br>
creating a new OSGeo organisation in Europe. This will assist with<br>
funding from European organisations, and create a local focus for the<br>
European community.<br>
<br>
Discussion about sponsorship opportunities, and curating the to-do<br>
list, was pushed to the next meeting - scheduled for 29 December 2022,<br>
16:00 UTC. You’re welcome to attend here:<br>
<a href="https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard</a>, and the agenda proposal is here:<br>
<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-12-29" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-12-29</a><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Adam Steer, on behalf of the OSGeo Board<br>
<br>
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[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_UCGIS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_UCGIS</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://giswater.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://giswater.org/</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/giswater/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/projects/giswater/</a><br>
[4] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-December/005885.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2022-December/005885.html</a><br>
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