OSGeo PSC - The beginning

2016-12-20

Oskari Architecture Group Meeting Memo

While not an actual PSC meeting this meeting introduced the OSGeo process and the first PSC was elected in the meeting.

Introduction of participants:

The agenda was approved

Jani Kylmäaho presented the background for arranging the meeting and stated that it is time to give Oskari.org software to the community to foster. Nevertheless, National Land Survey of Finland will continue to be actively participating in the development and collaboration activities also in the future.
Sanna Jokela presented the themes behind the Oskari development and OSGeo processes. To become part of OSGeo brings open source geospatial projects stability and international visibility. Certain requirements have to be fulfilled, one being the establishment of Project Steering Committee (PSC) for Oskari.
Sanna Jokela introduced the drafts for Community Roles, PSC tasks & rules and Oskari Roadmap. These documents were discussed.

Link to Github wiki
Coordinator should be added to the list and describe how community events and activation methods are to be conducted

The membership of the PSC is stable, unless the member wants to step down or is voted to step down (e.g. due to inactivity)
Members are individuals, not organisational representatives
Members can be added afterwards or invited to the group by the PSC

Communication methods should be open - everybody should see the suggested features and votes given to these. Email is not the only discussion forum for the issues and private email list should not be created for the PSC. This will be added to the rules.
Voting should be possible with any digital method proven suitable for the group (e.g email, slack, github). This will be added to the rules.

Following nominees were made for the Oskari Project Steering Committee and all nominated were elected as members of the PSC: - Jussi Arpalahti - Marko Kauppi - Jaakko Ruutiainen - Tuuli Pihlajamaa - Hafliði Sigtryggur Magnússon - Sami Mäkinen - Timo Sallinen - Tomi Lukkarinen - Heikki Ylitalo
Election of the chair: Sami Mäkinen was suggested to be the chair and was elected for the chair. Decision was unanimous.
Establishing the rules: The rules were established with minor corrections. They can be further revised by the PSC if needed.

First Oskari PSC meeting: The Chair will suggest the PSCs first meeting on January 2017. Refining the Roadmap is the first priority of the PSC.

CLA’s are needed from all contributors, the request for these will be sent out soon
Oskari will apply for the OSGeo Incubation process before the end of December 2016
PSC and Coordination of the Oskari Network will collaborate on the incubation process after instructions from the OSGeo