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