Board Meeting 2013-06-13

This board meeting is scheduled for the 13th of June 2013 at 20.00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-05-09
 * GRASS code sprint support (request)
 * Begin plans for Board and Charter member elections
 * Including refreshing OSGeo Advocate page. (raised by Cameron Shorter)
 * Discussion on new possible Standards committee, to work with OGC
 * Brief update on FOSS4G in Nottingham
 * Possible OGC Board and OSGeo Board informal meeting in Nottingham (S.Feldman's idea)
 * OSGeo appearance at INSPIRE conference - 2013 and future --Jachym 01:36, 6 June 2013 (PDT)
 * OSGeo SDI committee --Jachym 01:37, 6 June 2013 (PDT)
 * Board, please clarify (brief) - is FOSS4G a trademark? Does the OSGeo Logo and brand appear at FOSS4G events ? --darkblue_b 08:20, 6 June 2013 (PDT)
 * add your items here
 * Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
 * Schedule next meeting

Minutes

 * Attending: Frank, Jeff, Jachym, Cameron, Anne, Peter, Daniel


 * Presiding: Jeff


 * Scribing: Michael

Assigned Tasks

 * Frank to created SDI mailing list

Motions

 * MOTION: approve last minutes (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-05-09)
 * 1/anne, 2/jachym, all +1


 * MOTION: To grant $750USD for this event [GRASS sprint] with the expectation that financial report will be provided back to the board on completion.
 * Anne/1, mpg/2, Daniel/+0, others +1


 * MOTION to appoint Arnulf Christl as CRO for 2013 Charter Member and Board election, with goal to have both done by September
 * Daniel/1, Jeff/3, all +1


 * MOTION: I [Cameron] move that OSGeo approach OGC to set up a meeting, and that seven be tasked with the responsiblity of sorting out details of the meeting.
 * Cameron/1, mpg/2, all +1


 * MOTION: create a list for them [SDI committee], let them choose to make a formal committee revquest if they feel they want/need to
 * mpg/1, jachym/2, all +1

Full, raw minutes notes

 * [2:02] start


 * roll: Frank, Jeff, Jachym, Cameron, Aanne, peter, Daniel


 * MOTION: approve last minutes (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-05-09)
 * 1/anne, 2/jachym, all +1


 * [2:03] scribe to be more careful transcribing motions


 * [2:06] GRASS code sprint support
 * http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2013-June/010812.html
 * asking for US$750
 * discussion of need to follow guidelines for transpearnecy
 * MOTION: To grant $750USD for this event with the expectation that financial report will be provided back to the board on completion.
 * Anne/1, mpg/2, Daniel/+0, others +1


 * [2:16] Begin plans for Board and Charter member elections
 * will ideally be before FOSS4G -- usually they take place from June to August
 * discussing suggestions for CROs, noted should not be board member (could be retiring board member)
 * seven suggested, accepts
 * mpg volunteers to assist
 * MOTION to appoint Arnulf Christl as CRO for 2013 Charter Member and Board election, with goal to have both done by September
 * Daniel/1, Jeff/2, all +1


 * [2:22] Discussion on new possible Standards committee, to work with OGC
 * side mention of OSGeo advocate role -- suggest considering OSGeo Advocate refresh at the same time as Charter member, to be discussed later
 * topic deferred to standards list


 * [2:25] brief update on FOSS4G in Nottingha
 * going well, 300 registrations to date (break-even tought to be around 500)
 * no questions for LOC
 * request to plug event at CEE - Jeff to follow up w/ jachym


 * [2:32] Possible OGC Board and OSGeo Board informal meeting in Nottingham (S.Feldman's idea)
 * OGC board in town for AGI event
 * Suchith has even volunteered to organize an informal get-together for osgeo board
 * noted that new board new members will be official at that time
 * suchith and steven waiting for OSGeo backing before contacting OGC board
 * side discussion of funding board members to attend foos4g, f2f mtg
 * MOTION: I move that OSGeo approach OGC to set up a meeting, and that seven be tasked with the responsiblity of sorting out details of the meeting.
 * Cameron/1, mpg/2, all +1


 * [2:53] OSGeo appearance at INSPIRE conference
 * there were 2 proposals from OSGeo: paper and "jrc-osgeo ping-pong workshop"
 * ("jrc-osgeo ping-pong workshop": means "dialog between OSGeo and Joint Research Centre")
 * presentation was NOT accepted; workshop, after discussion and organisation, was
 * presentation could be poster - suggestion marketing work to produce poster


 * [2:59] OSGeo SDI committee
 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SDI_Committee
 * MOTION: create a list for them, let them choose to make a formal committee revquest if they feel they want/need to
 * mpg/1, jachym/2, all +1


 * MOTION: adjourn
 * mpg/1, all +1