Board Meeting 2015-07-17

This board meeting is scheduled for the 17th of July 2015 at 16.00 UTC during FOSS4G-Europe, with follow up voting by email.

Current items

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-06-18
 * brief treasurer report
 * FOSS4G 2015 update
 * FOSS4G 2016 update
 * request to form a new CodeOfConduct Committee
 * 2015 elections
 * add your items here

Items from past meetings

 * Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
 * Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
 * Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
 * Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
 * Marketing committee without a chair
 * Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
 * Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron
 * OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
 * [UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project

Minutes

 * Attending: Jeff, Jachym, Vasile, Anne, Maxi, Jorge, Mike (hangout)
 * Presiding: Jeff
 * Scribing: Jeff

FOSS4G 2015 update

 * seed funding agreement modified by Sanghee and Jeff during FOSS4G-Como, in terms of handling a financial loss. To be shared with the Board privately.


 * registrations currently around 280

FOSS4G 2016 update

 * planning meeting held during Como event

request to form a new CodeOfConduct Committee
- Board appreciates proposed CoC committee - 2 points must be clarified: 1) changes needed to structure:          - there should be no limitation on # of members (as other committees)           - need to name chair of committee           - should propose/vote in new members       2) changes needed to scope: - committee reports about CoC incidents to the Board privately (board-priv mailing list) - actions are only taken by the OSGeo Board

2015 elections
* leave as-is * change from 5% YES votes required to 50% or more YES votes required * specify how to handle the NO and ABSTAIN votes * change from YES/NO/ABSTAIN to a "1" or "0" * change to accepting a % of members * other?
 * discussion on history of changes to elections
 * Vasile showed a page with a module to test thresholds
 * there seem to be several options for the elections process

next meeting date/time

 * 13 August @ 14:00 UTC