Board Meeting 2007 11 02

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 2nd of November at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary
 * Review and approve Twenty Eighth Board Meeting, and Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 minutes.
 * Approve OpenLayers Incubation Graduation
 * Approve GEOS to enter incubation
 * Approve renaming of Promotion and Visibility Committee to Marketing Committee
 * Approve Charlie Schweik as new Education Committee chair, and Ned Horning as co-chair.
 * Approve David Bitner as new Geodata Committee chair
 * Introduce OSGeo 2008 Budget and Role of Finance Committee - Discussion of any immediate Budget items that must be dealt with in short term before formal approval of Budget
 * Discussion between board and Jody on a path forward for GeoTools incubation and copyright assignment. Prereading: GeoTools Legal Review: see "the current pitch" near bottom, and Graduate from OSGeo.
 * Discuss Cameron's email to the board titled Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support
 * Provide direction to the conference committee on FOSS4G 2009 profit targets to be expected from RFP responders.
 * Update on Pro-Active Sponsorship efforts
 * Info from Dave M. re. kick-starting OSGeo installer initiative
 * Deferred: Review and approve proposal for highlighting sponsors and contributors (FrankW to prepare).

Minutes

 * Role call: Paul, Frank, Arnulf, Markus, Tyler, Chris
 * Appoint meeting secretary: Tyler
 * Review and approved Twenty Eighth Board Meeting
 * Frank moved, Markus seconds, all in favour, carried
 * Review and approved Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 minutes.
 * Deferred while confirming existance of minutes elsewhere
 * Approve OpenLayers Incubation Graduation
 * Incubation committee recommends graduation
 * Chris moves, Frank seconds, all in favour, carried
 * OpenLayers officially graduated
 * Approve GEOS to enter incubation
 * Incubation committee recommending accepting GEOS into incubation
 * Frank moves, Chris seconds, all in favour, carried
 * Needs to add mentor to Trac ticket
 * GEOS officially in incubation
 * Approve renaming of Promotion and Visibility Committee to Marketing Committee
 * Paul moves, Chris seconds, alli n favour, carried
 * VisCom is now called Marketing
 * Approve Charlie Schweik as new Education Committee chair, and Ned Horning as co-chair.
 * Frank moves, Chris seconds, all in favour, carried
 * Charlie and Ned are chairs of Education Committee]]
 * Approve David Bitner as new Geodata Committee chair
 * Arnulf moves, Frank seconds, all in favour, carried
 * David is now chair of Geodata committee
 * Introduce OSGeo 2008 Budget and Role of Finance Committee - Discussion of any immediate Budget items that must be dealt with in short term before formal approval of Budget
 * Dave bringing budget forward in next meeting
 * Discussion between board and Jody on a path forward for GeoTools incubation and copyright assignment. Prereading: GeoTools Legal Review: see "the current pitch" near bottom, and Graduate from OSGeo.
 * Jody was unable to attend, deferred his part of the discussion
 * General discussion about why this is still a question, and what other projects are doing
 * Adrian Custer joined the discussion to present the current case
 * Question of whether Board needs to have some more discussion about OSGeo taking on fiduciary responsibility for projects
 * Chris to help get further review done, between Adrian, Jody, Heather and cc:'ing Arnulf
 * Discuss Cameron's email to the board titled Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support
 * Provide direction to the conference committee on FOSS4G 2009 profit targets to be expected from RFP responders.
 * Lots of discussion
 * Update on Pro-Active Sponsorship efforts
 * Nothing to report
 * Info from Dave M. re. kick-starting OSGeo installer initiative
 * Jeff McKenna will be starting discussions about bringing together the various installer platforms, i.e. MS4W and opening it up, but to include more OSGeo projects
 * Deferred: Review and approve proposal for highlighting sponsors and contributors (FrankW to prepare).
 * Arnulf had some discussion with IOSN. He will bring up item on list or in next meeting to discuss how/why/when OSGeo could associate with other organisations.
 * Closing meeting 16:18UTC
 * Chris moves, Arnulf second, all in favour