Board Meeting 2009-01-09

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 9th of January 2009 at 17:00 UTC (fixedtime), by Skype and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will be using Skype voice, initiated by Tyler Arnulf. Be sure to give him your Skype username.

Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary
 * Review and approve Board Meeting 2008-12-12 minutes.
 * Motion: Award FOSS4G2010 Conference Hosting to Barcelona, Spain team - see message to board
 * Approve Poland Local Chapter - see this request
 * Approve United Kingdom Local Chapter - see their Terms of Reference
 * Approve Chris Schmidt as WebCom chair - WebCom already happily approved.
 * Sponsorship strategy and updates from board
 * Update from Tyler
 * Confirm 2009-02-06 as date for the next meeting
 * add new items here....

Minutes

 * IRC logs are here starting at 08:00.
 * Attending: Arnulf, Markus, Ari, Howard, Paul, Bob
 * Paul taking minutes, Arnulf chairing
 * Review minutues Board_Meeting_2008-12-12
 * Arnulf moves approval, Howard seconds, APPROVED: previous minutes approved
 * Approve Barcelona as 2010 FOSS4G site
 * Arnulf notes that approval was already given via e-mail process
 * APPROVED: Barcelona approved as 2010 FOSS4G site
 * Add Poland Local Chapter
 * Ari moves to accept, Arnulf seconds, APPROVED: local chapter for Poland approved
 * Add UK Local Chapter
 * Arnulf moves to accept, Paul seconds, APPROVED: local chapter for UK approved
 * Chris Schmidt to head WebCom
 * WebCom has already indicated their approval
 * Arnulf moves to accept, Howard seconds, APPROVED: Chris Schmidt approved as WebCom chair
 * Discussion of sponsorship and finding sponsors
 * Status update from Arnulf
 * Status update from Ari
 * General question from Arnulf about effectiveness of current procedure
 * Set date for next meeting: February 6, 2009
 * Arnulf moves, Bob seconds, APPROVED: Next board meeting will be February 6, 2009
 * Howard questions, "what board members are going to the Toronto Code Sprint 2009?
 * Paul, Frank, Howard
 * Arnulf suggests having a board meeting during that period so some folks can be in the same room and others skyped in.
 * General agreement.
 * Close of meeting
 * Arnulf moves to close, second Paul, meeting adjourns.