Board Meeting 2008 03 14

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 14th of March 2008 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary,
 * Review and approve Thirty Third Board Meeting minutes.
 * Appoint Wolf Bergenheim as Google Summer of Code Administrative contact (with support from Frank Warmerdam)
 * Approve graduation of the Quantum GIS project from incubation with Gary Sherman as project liason (aka VP, QGIS) as recommended by the Incubation committee.
 * Discuss timing, and responsibility for 2008 charter member and board elections.
 * FOSS4G 2008 contracting and budget status review.
 * Update from Tyler

Minutes

 * Meeting started at 15h07 UTC
 * Real-time IRC logs available here
 * Present: Bob, Chris, Paul, Frank, Dave, (Voting Quorum reached) Tyler
 * 1) Appoint meeting secretary, Tyler taking minutes, Frank chairing meeting
 * 2) Review and approve Thirty Third Board Meeting minutes.
 * 3) Bob moved, Frank seconded, all were in favour, minutes approved.
 * 4) Motion: Appoint Wolf Bergenheim as Google Summer of Code Administrative contact''' (with support from Frank Warmerdam)
 * 5) Frank made the motion to appoint him, Paul seconded, all were in favour.
 * 6) Wolf is appointed Google SoC Admin contact
 * 7) Thank you to Wolf for volunteering for this task
 * 8) Motion: Approve graduation of the Quantum GIS project from incubation with Gary Sherman as project liason (aka VP, QGIS) as recommended by the Incubation committee.'''
 * 9) Frank made the motion, Chris seconded all were in favour.
 * 10) QGIS is now a graduated OSGeo project
 * 11) Discuss timing, and responsibility for 2008 charter member and board elections.
 * 12) Will hold off until after Annual Report is complete, end of March, so Tyler can lead the process, with input from the Board
 * 13) TODO: Tyler to document process to be used
 * 14) FOSS4G 2008 contracting and budget status review.
 * 15) Paul gave update.  Balanced budget received from LOC last week and it is looking good.
 * 16) Finance Committee to vet and recommend budget approval back to Board.
 * 17) TODO: Paul to send recommendation to committee for discussion
 * 18) Final approval and letter of agreement planned for next board meeting.
 * 19) Update from Tyler
 * 20) Reviewing some items from his email update
 * 21) Tyler is gathering UK contacts (with Jo Cook) for a potential OSGeo UK Meetup May 2008 to boost the local chapter, while in the area for a presentation at OSGeo Sponsor 1Spatial's annual conference.
 * 22) Frank moves to close the meeting, seconded by Dave, all in favour.. meeting adjorned.