Board Meeting 2009-11-05
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 5th of November 2009 at 15:00 UTC at 15:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo).
TODO: Arnulf to make motion to change voting protocols via email list. What exactly was this all about?
Agenda
- Appoint meeting secretary
- Approve minutes for Board Meeting 2009-10-08
- Approve FOSS4G 2010 contract (please be prepared and discuss via email prior to this meeting!)
- Executive Positions and Board responsibilities.
- Report from Incubation Committee
- MapFish is recommended for incubation with Gary Sherman as mentor.
- GeoServer is recommended for incubation with Richard Gould as mentor.
- Report from FOSS4G 2009
- add your points
Minutes
IRC Logs Here - starting at 07h00
Attendees
- Directors:
- Arnulf Christl, Howard Butler, Chris Schmidt, Markus Neteler, Ari Jolma, Ravi Kumar, Jeff McKenna
- Staff: Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director, Secretary)
NOTE this meeting was through Internet chat (IRC), therefore was not an official meeting
Discussion Points and Decisions
- FOSS4G2010 contract
- must wait til Lorenzo and Grupo Pacifico come up with final version
- proposed contract was reviewed in Sydney (paul, tyler, arnulf, ticheler, lorenzo, jeff)
- jeff, tyler, arnulf to send contract to board list when Grupo Pacifico approves contract
- Executive Positions and Board Responsibilities
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Executive_Positions
- Arnulf to come up with Roles of board members
- president role
- support for Seven to continue as president
- supported by frank, markus, chris, howard, jeff, ari, ravi
- support for Seven to continue as president
- Report from Incubation Committee
- committee recommends MapFish and GeoServer
- also hopes that degree becomes recommended for graduation soon
- struggle to find enough mentor volunteers
- possible additional reqmts for OSGeo projects
- http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2009-October/001327.html
- task: arnulf to ask incubation committe on recommendation to move the copyright of projects to OSGeo
- task: all board members asked to join incubation
- frank dissatisfied with availability of members. committee is 'doing the role i see for it"
- arnulf wonders if committeee should have greater responsibility for graduated projects
- arnulf suggests we have one project report from one project per board meeting
Action Summary
- TODO:
- jeff, tyler, arnulf to send FOSS4G2010 contract to board list when Grupo Pacifico approves contract
- Arnulf to come up with Roles of board members
- arnulf to ask incubation committe on recommendation to move the copyright of projects to OSGeo
- all board members asked to join incubation