Board Meeting 2012-08-09

This board meeting is scheduled for the 9th of August 2012 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

 * Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2012-07-12
 * Appoint secretary
 * Action items from last and previous meetings
 * Ongoing: Arnulf to set up, schedule and run 2012 elections
 * Peter Batty and Jo Cook to work on getting FOSS4G 2011 material online - discussions under way, need to get some (small) volunteer effort to pull things together
 * mpg to do inventory of committees and local chapters (carried over from previous meeting)
 * Clean out and update Charter Membership (carried over from previous meeting again)
 * Jo report from the ELOgeo importation process
 * Daniel to resolve 'c3 vs. 'c6 issue
 * Daniel to decide what to do about QuickBooks issue
 * September (new board): Decide on location for AGM, Sol Katz, F2F board meeting
 * Finances:
 * See: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av9Xf1ehZXz-dG5zYnVmSnJRWk5yTExDYmtpTTFSNXc
 * Review/discuss budget/finances YTD info as of 2012-07-31
 * Motion to approve new revised budget as of 2012-08-07 ?
 * Continue dialog on how to associate with Eclipse (see board list mail from Jo)
 * PDX-OSGeo local chapter formal recognition, some notes on what has been done
 * Finalize confirmation of board voting procedure - left over from a couple years ago - Frank to summarize.
 * Clarify that the rights granted to code contributors who signed the GeoTools Copyright Assignment. Specifically, does it include the right to distribute their own work under a different OSI approved license?
 * Related: Dual License Request (withdrawn) - proposal to dual-license as per GeoTools Code Contribution Agreement and OSGeo by-laws
 * Related: Apache Software Grant recommended on sis-dev
 * How to deal with alleged impartiality and favoritism of OSGeo, see mail threads around "Asking permission for re-licensing..." and follow-ups
 * Identifying when a committee has been put in situation of Judge and Party (see the geotools-admin thread)
 * Identifying when a committee or process is considered biased osgeo-discuss thread
 * Acknowledge resignations of Charter members:
 * Jason Birch
 * Kazunori Noda
 * FOSS4G North America 2013 Minneapolis Request for OSGeo to act as Financial Backstop
 * please add items
 * Confirm next meeting time and date Board Meeting 2012-xx-xx

Minutes

 * logistics
 * detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-08-09.log
 * Attending: seven mpg pmbatty dmorissette tschaub
 * Absent with regrets: jo frankw
 * Missing: mark
 * Chair: seven
 * Secretary: mpg

Assigned Tasks

 * 1) Peter to produce a brief final report to the OSGeo membership on FOSS4G 2011 (financial, etc)
 * 2) Arnulf to set up, schedule and run 2012 elections
 * 3) mpg to do inventory of committees and local chapters (carried over from previous meeting)
 * 4) Jo report from the ELOgeo importation process
 * 5) Daniel to resolve 'c3 vs. 'c6 issue
 * 6) Daniel to decide what to do about QuickBooks issue
 * 7) September (new board): Decide on location for AGM, Sol Katz, F2F board meeting


 * 1) Daniel: draft a 2013 budget in the coming weeks based on same expenses and 0 FOSS4G revenues if that helps

Motions

 * 1) approve minutes from July meeting - 1/mpg, 2/tschaub, all +1
 * 2) motion to accept PDX as an official OSGeo Local Chapter - 1/seven, 2/mpg, all +1
 * 3) Motion: "The board understands that it was the intention of the GeoTools Contributor Agreement to grant the Contributor right to relicense their Submission"
 * 4) motion to ack the resignation of Noda, Birch, and also Eduardo Patto Kanegae - 1/mpg, 2/seven, all +1
 * 5) Motion: The board agrees in principle to work towards financial support of the FOSS4GNA regional event, with details to be sorted out before final approval of the support - 1/seven, 2/dmorissette, all +1