Board Meeting 2013-08-15

This board meeting is scheduled for the 15th of July 2013 at 3.00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email. (Note that Aug. 15 at 3 UTC is end of the day on August 14 in NA)

Agenda

• roll call
• appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
• Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-07-11
• Non-profit status with IRS: 501(c)3 vs 501(c)6.
  • Decision on way forward and response to IRS due by August 31, please see discussion on board list http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2013-August/thread.html
• FOSS4G 2014 in PDX:
  • Need to formally confirm decision with a public motion?
  • Appoint board rep on LOC
• add your items here
• Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
• Schedule next meeting

Deferred items from last meeting (please move up selected items)

• OSGeo servers security issues
• Changes needed to Elections process
  • documented at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category_talk:Elections
  • likely needs to be put on hold until after elections, but, important to followup later
• Need to update bylaws http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
  • possible half-day virtual meeting to go through necessary changes?
  • suggestion by AdrianC: Board could produce an authoritative list of all the wiki pages considered to be approved amendments to the bylaws
• OGC Board / OSGeo Board meetup in Nottingham
  • update from Arnulf?
  • OGC very keen for this

Minutes

• Attending:

• Presiding:

• Scribing:

Assigned Tasks

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Motions

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Full, raw minutes notes

• Full IRC log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2013-08-15.log

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