Board Meeting 2017-01-05

This board meeting is scheduled for the 5th of January 2017 at through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.

Current items

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Approve last meeting minutes
 * Update OSGeo_Budget_2017 if needed
 * Review and approve sponsorship strategy and call for sponsorship for 2017
 * Approve operational budget for OSGeo_Budget_2017
 * Add agenda items

Minutes

 * Attending: Anita, Maria, Angelos, Sanghee, Jody, Vasile
 * Presiding: Angelos
 * Scribing: Vasile
 * Approval of previous board meeting minutes on 2016-12-15
 * Discussion about 2017 OSGeo budget based on the document created during the budget work party in late December. Most of the people have issues with the marketing committee (digital asset rebranding and website reboot) and the UN hackathon.
 * Discussion about the sponsorship strategy and call for sponsorship for 2017.
 * Approval of the Call for Sponsorship and release a blog post.
 * Approval of the OSGeo operational budget for 2017.
 * Next Board Meeting was scheduled for 2017-02-02 14:00UTC

Motions
Motions here are to be confirmed on Loomio for public record.

Full, raw minutes notes

 * IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2017-01-05.log