Board Meeting 2009-11-05

This board meeting is scheduled for the 5th of November 2009 at 15:00 UTC at 15:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo).

TODO: Arnulf to make motion to change voting protocols via email list. What exactly was this all about?

Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary
 * Approve minutes for Board Meeting 2009-10-08
 * Approve FOSS4G 2010 contract (please be prepared and discuss via email prior to this meeting!)
 * Executive Positions and Board responsibilities.
 * Report from Incubation Committee
 * MapFish is recommended for incubation with Gary Sherman as mentor.
 * GeoServer is recommended for incubation with Richard Gould as mentor.
 * Report from FOSS4G 2009
 * add your points

Minutes
IRC Logs Here - starting at 07h00

Attendees

 * Directors:
 * Arnulf Christl, Howard Butler, Chris Schmidt, Markus Neteler, Ari Jolma, Ravi Kumar, Jeff McKenna
 * Staff: Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director, Secretary)

NOTE this meeting was through Internet chat (IRC), therefore was not an official meeting

Discussion Points and Decisions

 * FOSS4G2010 contract
 * must wait til Lorenzo and Grupo Pacifico come up with final version
 * proposed contract was reviewed in Sydney (paul, tyler, arnulf, ticheler, lorenzo, jeff)
 * jeff, tyler, arnulf to send contract to board list when Grupo Pacifico approves contract


 * Executive Positions and Board Responsibilities
 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Executive_Positions
 * Arnulf to come up with Roles of board members
 * president role
 * support for Seven to continue as president
 * supported by frank, markus, chris, howard, jeff, ari, ravi


 * Report from Incubation Committee
 * committee recommends MapFish and GeoServer
 * also hopes that degree becomes recommended for graduation soon
 * struggle to find enough mentor volunteers
 * possible additional reqmts for OSGeo projects
 * http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2009-October/001327.html
 * task: arnulf to ask incubation committe on recommendation to move the copyright of projects to OSGeo
 * task: all board members asked to join incubation
 * frank dissatisfied with availability of members. committee is 'doing the role i see for it"
 * arnulf wonders if committeee should have greater responsibility for graduated projects
 * arnulf suggests we have one project report from one project per board meeting

Action Summary

 * '''TODO:
 * jeff, tyler, arnulf to send FOSS4G2010 contract to board list when Grupo Pacifico approves contract
 * Arnulf to come up with Roles of board members
 * arnulf to ask incubation committe on recommendation to move the copyright of projects to OSGeo
 * all board members asked to join incubation