Board Meeting 2009-03-13

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 13th of March 2009 at 17:00 UTC (fixedtime), by Skype and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will be using Skype voice, initiated by Tyler. Be sure to give him your Skype username.

Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary
 * Review and approve Board Meeting 2009-02-06 minutes. (Previous meeting was postponed due to lack of attendance)
 * Approved Korean language local chapter as per email
 * Consider Microdonations options (Markus) (already there but nobody remembered ;-)
 * Seed funding for FOSS4G conferences (see Lorenzo's mail)
 * add new items here....

Minutes

 * Attended: Arnulf, Markus, Ari, Jo, Frank and Tyler
 * MOTION: Approve Board Meeting 2009-02-06 minutes. (Previous meeting was postponed due to lack of attendance)
 * Frank moved to adopt, Arnulf second, all were in favour, carried.
 * MOTION: Approve Korean language local chapter as per email
 * Arnulf moved to adopt, Jo seconded, all were in favour, carried.
 * Consider Microdonations options (Markus)
 * Ask Marketing Committee to discuss how to spread the OSGeo PayPal donation option more, track donors, etc.
 * Seed funding for FOSS4G conferences (see Lorenzo's mail)
 * Discussing idea of providing $15k up front to newly selected conference organising committees. To help provide start-up funds for events.
 * Take it to the conference committee with request for a proposal back to the board at next meeting.
 * Next Meeting: 10 April 2009
 * Meeting adjorned: Jo moved, Arnulf seconded. All were in favour to close at 22 minutes after.