Board Meeting 2013-01-17

This board meeting is scheduled for the 17th of January 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 2012-12-13
• Next Face-to-Face Board meeting
  • could be full day virtual meeting instead
• Next AGM
  • possibly at FOSS4G Nottingham
• FOSS4G updates
  • Nottingham (sept)
  • Minneapolis (may)
  • Buenos Aires (april)
  • Tokyo/Osaka (nov)
  • Bucharest (may)
• MoU with universities - new entries and candidates (summary from Anne)
• Follow up on request for official Emeritus status, see also mail thread.
• please add items
• Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
• Schedule next meeting

Minutes

• Logs: http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2013-01-17.log
• Meeting Report: TO BE SEND
• Chair: jmckenna
• Attending: jachym, FrankW, jmckenna, aghisla, mlucas

Topics

• Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2012-12-13
  • MOTION: aghisla moves to accept minutes, mlucas seconds. Carried
• Face-to-Face Board meeting
  • Meeting will be virtual, 3 hours, using Google Hangout
  • ACTION: jachym prepares doodle pool for virtual face to face meeting, jmckenna controls it.
• Annual Global Meeting
  • Postponed to FOSS4G Global, Notthingham
  • MOTION: jmckenna moves to hold the OSGeo Annual General Meeting during the FOSS4G Nottingham event in September. Carried
  • ACTION: jmckenna to contact jo/peter to make sure they know we are confirmed
• Short info about FOSS4G-CEE status for the year 2013
  • jachym reports, how things are moving for the FOSS4G-CEE for the year 2013, organized by the Bucharest team.
  • There is plan, organizing FOSS4G-E (for Europe) for the year 2014
• MoU with universities, aghisla reports
  • Several universities (Kathmandu, Melbourne, Kentucky, Warsaw and Mexico) asked how to establish open source geospatial labs
  • aghisla is following steps, done earlyer by User:Sanand
• Other topics
  • jachym notes, we should activaly popup at INSPIRE conference. jachym will try to prepare some proposal
• Next meeting
  • Will be Face to face meeting, organized with help of doodle pool
• MOTION: meeting closed

Assigned Tasks

• ACTION: jachym prepares doodle pool for virtual face to face meeting, jmkenna controls it.
• ACTION: jmckenna to contact jo/peter to make sure they know we are confirmed

Motions

• MOTION: aghisla moves to accept minutes, mlucas seconds. Carried
• MOTION: jmckenna moves to hold the OSGeo Annual General Meeting during the FOSS4G Nottingham event in September. Carried