Board Meeting 2011-04-07

This board meeting is scheduled for the 7th of April 2011 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

Agenda

 * Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2011-03-03
 * FOSS4G 2011 update
 * OSGeo-es report from Local Chapter Liaison officer
 * Wikipedia / OSGeo Introduction - report (if anything) from first contact
 * Motion to accept Talk:Open Source and Open Standards as a joint White Paper with OGC
 * Incubation appears to be stuck (check the history of the progress pages)
 * FOSSGIS 2011 in Heidelberg Germany successful. Nice mix of OSM, GIS and NeoGeo.

Minutes

 * Detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-04-07.log
 * Attending: Frank, Tyler, Jeff, Arnulf, Ravi, Tim, Daniel, Markus and Tyler (quorum)
 * Tyler scribed minutes

Action Summary

 * MOTION: Arnulf moved, Tim seconded, to adopt the minutes from the previous meeting, all were in favour, adopted.
 * ACTION: Provide edits to OGC/open standards/OSGeo white paper ASAP

Details

 * 1) Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2011-03-03
 * 2) Reviewed past action items.
 * 3) MOTION: Arnulf moved, Tim seconded, to adopt the minutes from the previous meeting, all were in favour, adopted.
 * 4) FOSS4G 2011 Update
 * 5) Lots waiting to register until program finalised.  Abstract submissions slow, most come in right before the deadline.
 * 6) New website pending.
 * 7) Reviewed OSGeo-es report from Local Chapter Liaison officer
 * 8) Quebec  chapter also had updated directors, etc.
 * 9) Wikipedia / OSGeo Introduction - report (if anything) from first contact
 * 10) No progress to report
 * 11) Motion to accept Talk:Open Source and Open Standards as a joint White Paper with OGC
 * 12) Arnulf has done some edits, need more input from other directors.
 * 13) ACTION: Provide edits to OGC/open standards/OSGeo white paper ASAP
 * 14) Incubation reports
 * 15) Some discussion on revitalising projects in incubation
 * 16) FOSSGIS 2011 in Heidelberg Germany successful. Nice mix of OSM, GIS and NeoGeo.
 * 17) Good attendance ~500, filmed in HD: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSSGIS2011/?C=M;O=A
 * 18) Marketing update
 * 19) Tyler mentioned various liv dvds, marketing material, foss4g flyers, etc. have been sent out.  Lots of events underway this month.