Board Meeting 2008 08 08

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 8th of August 2008 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary,
 * Review and approve Board Meeting 2008 07 18 minutes.
 * Review and approve Official OSGeo Event Policy.
 * Approve 2007 Financial Reports (not passed through Finance Committee yet)
 * Select officers - President, Treasurer and Secretary
 * Update from Tyler

Minutes
Transcript available at: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2008-08-08.log

15:49 UTC	 ============= meeting done==============
 * Meeting start 15:07 UTC
 * Attending: Ari, Arnulf, Frank, Howard, Markus, Tyler (5 directors, quorum)
 * Appoint secretary: Tyler
 * Review last meeting's minutes: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2008_07_18
 * Arnulf moved to accept these meeting minutes, Frank seconded, all were in favour
 * Review and approve Official OSGeo Event Policy
 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Official_OSGeo_Event_Policy
 * discussed the concepts of applying the policy
 * MOTION: Jo moved to approve the policy, Frank seconded the motion, 0 from Arnulf, all others were in favour.. passed
 * Approve 2007 Financial Reports ( not passed through Finance Committee yet )
 * DRAFT - Financial Reports: http://osgeo.org/files/finance/reports.html
 * interest in giving the finance committee approval instead of leaving it for another month
 * MOTION: Hobu moved to accept the reports, pending the finance committee final approval, Jo seconded, all were in favour
 * Select officers - President, Treasurer and Secretary
 * Frank giving background..
 * Both president and treasurer - have stepped down, so now is time for discussing these changing roles
 * Frank is interested in the treasurer role
 * MOTION: Arnulf moved to select Frank as Treasurer, all were in favour
 * Discussed new president options, Arnulf is interested in the position
 * President candidates: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
 * MOTION: Frank moved to select Arnulf as President, all were in favour
 * re: Secretary.. Tyler currently filling the position, Frank moved to leave him in the role.
 * MOTION: Frank moved to leave Tyler as Secretary, all were in favour
 * Discussing when new roles take effect
 * General agreement to let new roles take effect immediately
 * Update from Tyler ( http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tmitchell#Workload_and_Tasks )
 * Tyler discussed highlights
 * Frank moved to close the meeting, all were in favour
 * Next meeting tentatively planned for 1st Friday of the month.. 5st of September