Board Meeting 2014-11-13

This board meeting is scheduled for the 13th of November 2014 at 15.00UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2014-10-16
 * brief treasurer report
 * FOSS4G 2015 update
 * FOSS4G 2016 update
 * reimbursement for gsoc mentors meeting above google limit (budgeted here http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2014)
 * Finding a way forward for Outstanding SAC Issues 2014
 * 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 evalutaion 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)
 * Select next meeting date/time

Minutes

 * Attending: Jeff, Jorge, Anne, Vasile, Bart, Gerald
 * Presiding: Jeff
 * Scribing: Bart

Assigned Tasks

 * Jeff: kick-off the 2016 FOSS4G RFP
 * Mike: give an update on where we are with the budget versus our spending in 2014

Full, raw minutes notes
IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2014-11-13.log


 * Jeff gives update on FOSS4G 2015: website launched, seed money to be transferred soon, venue changed to a cheaper, smaller sized venue
 * Jeff: no (separate) FOSS4G Asia in 2015
 * Jeff (with help of Jorge) to kick-off FOSS4G 2016 RFP (also ask FOSS4G 2014 for their report)
 * Jorge suggest having a template doc for conferences to fill in, Jeff has all the needed documents
 * Anne says reimbursement of 500 USD above the Google (GSOC) refund is no issue, is in the budget already. Jeff and Bart agree. No motion needed here.
 * Jeff brings up the SAC issues (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Outstanding_SAC_Issues_2014) which was brought to him. Most agree that if SAC can come up with a plan to fix the issues within the budget we should leave the details up to them and the board will support the proposal normally.
 * The board asks the treasurer (who is not present) for an update on the 2014 budget against the current situation
 * Next meeting Thursday 11 Dec 16:00 CET