Board Meeting 2015-08-13

This board meeting is scheduled for the 13th of August 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Current items

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-07-17
 * brief treasurer report
 * FOSS4G 2015 update
 * FOSS4G 2016 update
 * Election 2015 (Final survey results)
 * request to form a new Open_Geoscience_Committee (request)
 * request to form a new CodeOfConduct Committee (request)
 * ICA MoU renewal at FOSS4G-Como
 * refund for FOSDEM 2014 marketing materials (request)
 * Incubation committee update: GeoNode has been accepted into incubation (with David Bitnear as mentor). We are likely to need a bit of help transferring code from OpenPlans (now defunct) to OSGeo.
 * add your items here

Items from past meetings

 * Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
 * 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 evaluation 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)
 * [UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project

Minutes

 * Attending: jmckenna, jachym, aghisla, jsanz, vcraciunescu, bartvde, djay, maxi_
 * Presiding: jmckenna
 * Scribing: jachym

Motions (confirmed by email)
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-August/013030.html

Full, raw minutes notes
IRC log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-08-13.log


 * FOSS4G 2015 update - 325 registrants, the goal is 400 to break even, things are looking good, as there is always a last minute rush, keep online registration open longer
 * FOSS4G 2016 update - nothing to update here, FOSSGIS can't accept any liablity, there is no agreement yet regarding 2016
 * Election 2015 - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015, results are available here http://geo-spatial.org/osgeo/partial_survey_results.html, number of comments sent privately about threshold
 * Open_Geoscience_Committee - request: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Open-Geoscience-Committee-proposal-td5217427.html, Peter and Madi are proposed chairs
 * CodeOfConduct_Committee  - having volunteers help make sure OSGeo is diverse is excellent, and i was very happy with Camille/Kristin's recent thoughts, "smaller voting committee" is to privately handle answering reports, needs to be clarified
 * ICA MoU renewal at FOSS4G-Como - appears as a handshake, but actually is very great (think of the positive effect on GeoForAll)
 * Incubation committee update: GeoNode has been accepted into incubation - We are likely to need a bit of help transferring code from OpenPlans (now defunct) to OSGeo. The above problem is noted - and I am not quite sure what can be done about it. If anyone has a contact at OpenPlans we could get a letter. OpenPlans is defunct, so there is nobody to "give" the code to OSGeo.
 * next meeting - 2015-09-17 (FOSS4G) unofficial, Board_Meeting_2015-10-15
 * draft a bid for OSGeo website renewal it is too hugly now, and I think we have the money to do it, range of 10k to 50k or range 5k to 15k