Board Meeting 2007 05 18

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 18th of May 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 Sixth Board Meeting minutes
 * Discuss timing of a FOSS4G OSGeo face-to-face meeting, if we want one.
 * Approve Arnulf as new VisCom Chair.
 * GeoTools Contribution Steps
 * Revise the FAQ about proprietary software. -- Jo
 * Revisit What's Working and What's Not Working -- Arnulf
 * Revisit Board tasks and consider to either drop this page altogether (do it via Trac?) or appoint page maintainer -- Arnulf

Minutes

 * Meeting taken place on telephone Conference Call and on IRC.
 * In attendance: Mark Lucas, Arnulf Christl, Jo Walsh, Markus Neteler, Chris Holmes, Frank Warmerdam, Tyler Mitchell

Appoint meeting secretary
 * Mark scribing meeting

Reviewed and approved Twenty Sixth Board Meeting minutes
 * All were in favour of approving minutes

Discuss timing of a FOSS4G OSGeo face-to-face meeting, if we want one.
 * Agreed that a face-to-face meeting was valuable to have in Victoria
 * Sunday before the conference is the tentative date - assume there is a room available during conference set up
 * Will coordinate with Paul Ramsey

Approve Arnulf as new VisCom Chair.
 * VisCom approved Arnulf as chair
 * All board were in favour, approved

GeoTools Contribution Steps
 * General discussion (Chris)
 * Discussion around copyright of GeoTools
 * Reviewing email that Chris sent - about assigning copyright to OSGeo
 * Jo, commented on clause that OSGeo may license under other terms, some questions about whether they can be further reassigned
 * General agreement that having a standardized CLA for projects is good, rather than different for each one
 * Geotools is working on wording in a new proposed agreement
 * Discussed how to accomplish a legal review of the CLA
 * Agreed to finalize wording, then coordinate with Autodesk legal staff which has donated assistance in the past

Revise the FAQ about proprietary software. -- Jo
 * Reviewed changes and accepted

Revisit What's Working and What's Not Working -- Arnulf
 * Briefly reviewed the pages
 * Agreed to have everyone review the web pages and update

Revisit Board tasks and consider to either drop this page altogether (do it via Trac?) or appoint page maintainer -- Arnulf
 * Revisit board tasks and consider whether to drop and move to trac, what should status be.
 * Reviewed the list and discussed some of the current status, not an active page
 * Move to Trac as appropriate
 * Various outstanding tasks briefly mention, on Tyler's plate: fund raising, 501c3 status, election planning
 * Others: binary stack, financial statements

Other items:
 * Directors and officers insurance
 * Tyler has a quote, will coordinate with Gary and have board give final approval
 * Other foundations carry this type of insurance, will research and make recommendations
 * OSGeo Journal
 * First journal released, good work

Meeting adjourned 15:41UTC, all in favour