# Secretary Report - April 2025 The main big update we want to share with the community is that our Core Software Development Facilitator (STF) has started working-- Welcome, Minh Nguyễn! Some of you may already be familiar with Minh, as he has been an active member of the OSM Community for many years. He was on the Board of OpenStreetMap US, a Local Chapter of the OSMF, between 2019 and 2023. On the Engineering side, he has extensive experience working with several corporations in the geographical data domain. As well, he has been doing advisory work for the OpenHistoricalMap project since 2023. We wish him a successful time together! Something we've owned you and are working on finalizing by next month is the Annual General Meeting date, and the key dates that come before it. This includes nominations for new Board members and elections. Soon you'll get to know more details about it. At the end of May, the OSMF Board of Directors will be meeting for the annual face-to-face meeting in Milan, Italy. Last year we had the pleasure of meeting and working together in Frankfurt. This is crucial for building morale and allowing us to prioritize tasks and ideas to push for a prosperous future for the Foundation. Our meetings (2 days, May 31st and June 1st) will be guided by our trusted advisor, Gunner, who has collaborated with many Board of Directors' meetings for many years. We'd also like to share with you all some new blogposts. Have you had a chance to read them? Do you have an idea for a blog post? - New blogposts: - [The Philippines welcomes us to their shores for State of the Map 2025 on 3-5 October!](https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/03/10/the-philippines-welcomes-us-to-their-shores-for-state-of-the-map-2025-on-3-5-october/) - [Announcing the SotM 2025 Call for Participation](https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/03/26/announcing-the-sotm-2025-call-for-participation/) - [Attending the State of the Map Latin America 2024](https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/04/03/attending-the-state-of-the-map-latin-america-2024/) - [Notice to OSMF members: Change in membership handling regarding auto-renewals](https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/04/04/notice-to-osmf-members-change-in-membership-handling-regarding-auto-renewals/) - [Announcing SotM 2025 Travel Grant Programme](https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/04/16/announcing-sotm-2025-travel-grant-programme/) Some status updates we'd also like to share with you: - You can apply for the OSM projects at the [Google Summer of Code 2025](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2025). Please reach out should you have any questions! - We extended our trademark license agreement with the [Fédération des Pros d'OSM (FPOSM)](https://fposm.fr/) for two more years - They will present today during the board meeting -- Dani and Héctor