Board Meeting 2006 02 27

The second board meeting is planned for February 27th, 2006 at 8:00am PST, by phone and IRC at the same time.

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Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary.
 * Review and approve First Board Meeting minutes.
 * Status report on website and activities from DanielB.
 * Assign responsibility to approve/reject/forward mail arriving at 'info AT osgeo.org' to a second person (Tyler proposed as candidate).
 * Status report from the Treasurer (Gary).
 * Motion to form an Project Incubation Committee.
 * Motion to form a Promotion and Visibility Committee.
 * Motion on Proposed Board Election Procedure to elect four additional directors (Chris).
 * Review Contributor Agreement (Rich).
 * Proposed Press Release and Translations (Markus)
 * Motion to approve OSGeo Statement of Support for http://PublicGeodata.org web site (Markus w/Jo) (-> postponed to Third_Board_Meeting)
 * Discussion on being a 501c3 corporation.
 * Discuss, and possibly approve the OSGeo FAQ.

Minutes
See official minutes posted here

Action Items

 * 1) RichS and GaryL to open OSGeo bank account
 * 2) Arnulf and Daniel to work on creating wiki.osgeo.org
 * 3) Gary to provide copy of collabnet contract arrangement for “business resumption planning”.
 * 4) BOD to review/discuss online OSGeo FAQ by Wednesday, March 1st and post along with translations.
 * 5) RichS to engage tax counsel to get application for 501c3 underway.
 * 6) FrankW to have process and criteria for Project Incubation Committee by next Board meeting.
 * 7) RichS to prepare FAQ for contributor agreements
 * 8) Significant contributors to foundation projects must (through Incubation Committee members), review and approve Contributor Agreements within the next 2 weeks.  Post and discuss online.
 * 9) All Board members review and provide comment on OSGeo FAQ by Weds, March 1
 * 10) LauraR to provide tallied results of Member election by noon PST Tuesday, 2/28.  Current members to vote on any ties and approve by Wednesday, March 1st.
 * 11) MarkusN to work with Sean Sternfeldt on press release to go out Wednesday, March 1st.