These calls bring together the Technical Steering Committee for the ODK suite (@TAB) to discuss roadmaps, working groups, and other issues of technical governance. Everyone is welcome to come to these calls, but only TAB members may talk.
I see you've got Central on the agenda. The Central v1.1 criteria are available in this Google Doc. This release focuses on completing some work that was left from past feature development and polishing the user experience. The two improvements I think will have the highest user impact are reducing initial load time and allowing users to show additional columns in the submission table.
I won't be able to look at Selecting a map feature to collect data about for a bit though I'll be sure to catch up if others advance the conversation. My current priority is getting Collect v1.28 out (we're working through a couple more regressions), then addressing Briefcase push to Central with multiple form versions.
Now that @ln is back from her stay-cation, I can setup a time to do a bit of a deep-dive to try and push this along a bit... I assume you'd like to join?